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Revision 0e62fd836e4c2908cc1e32c68806529b4f859955 authored by Gregory CLEMENT on 17 August 2016, 10:21:33 UTC, committed by Ingo Molnar on 17 August 2016, 11:08:31 UTC
While converting the init function to return an error, the wrong clock
was get. This leads to the wrong clock rate and slows down the kernel.
For example, it affects typical boot time:

 - without fix: over 1 minute
 - with    fix: 15 seconds

Tested-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Tested-by: Ralph Sennhauser <ralph.sennhauser@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: 12549e27c63c ("clocksource/drivers/time-armada-370-xp: Convert init function to return error")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1471429296-9053-1-git-send-email-daniel.lezcano@linaro.org
[ Refined the changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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History
Tip revision: 0e62fd836e4c2908cc1e32c68806529b4f859955 authored by Gregory CLEMENT on 17 August 2016, 10:21:33 UTC
clocksource/drivers/time-armada-370-xp: Fix the clock reference
Tip revision: 0e62fd8
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