Thread (33 messages) 33 messages, 8 authors, 2015-10-13

Re: [PATCH v7 5/8] Watchdog: introduce ARM SBSA watchdog driver

From: Jon Masters <hidden>
Date: 2015-09-10 22:30:29
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On 08/24/2015 01:01 PM, fu.wei@linaro.org wrote:
+	/*
+	 * Get the frequency of system counter from the cp15 interface of ARM
+	 * Generic timer. We don't need to check it, because if it returns "0",
+	 * system would panic in very early stage.
+	 */
+	gwdt->clk = arch_timer_get_cntfrq();
Just thinking out loud...

What happens later if we virtualize this device within KVM/QEMU/Xen and
then live migrate to another system in which the frequency changes?

Jon.
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