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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/clocksource/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/clocksource/Kconfig | 12 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/Kconfig b/drivers/clocksource/Kconfig index 7acdf3d735ac..567788664723 100644 --- a/drivers/clocksource/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/clocksource/Kconfig @@ -288,14 +288,16 @@ config ARM_ARCH_TIMER select CLKSRC_ACPI if ACPI config ARM_ARCH_TIMER_EVTSTREAM - bool "Support for ARM architected timer event stream generation" + bool "Enable ARM architected timer event stream generation by default" default y if ARM_ARCH_TIMER depends on ARM_ARCH_TIMER help - This option enables support for event stream generation based on - the ARM architected timer. It is used for waking up CPUs executing - the wfe instruction at a frequency represented as a power-of-2 - divisor of the clock rate. + This option enables support by default for event stream generation + based on the ARM architected timer. It is used for waking up CPUs + executing the wfe instruction at a frequency represented as a + power-of-2 divisor of the clock rate. The behaviour can also be + overridden on the command line using the + clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstream parameter. The main use of the event stream is wfe-based timeouts of userspace locking implementations. It might also be useful for imposing timeout on wfe to safeguard against any programming errors in case an expected |