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update timer frequencies

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Hello,

I am trying to implement a cpufreq driver for ARC CPUs. 
The point is that ARC timers (including those are used for timekeeping) are driven by the same clock as ARC CPU core(s).

So if cpufreq driver changes CPU frequency timers frequency also updates. 
I added notification handler to ARC timer driver were I attempted to update clocksource frequency with
"__clocksource_update_freq_hz()" but I found that actually the frequency didn't update. 

During my further investigation I mentioned that timekeeping framework doesn't allow frequency changes for more than
11%. This is quiet frustratingly: ARC cores supports such adjustments themselves but current framework API doesn't give
us a chance to use this functionality and in fact it even forbids CPU frequency changes in runtime at all.

Maybe I am mistaken and there is some way to get this going? Or maybe we can add some minor changes to timekeeping
framework to resolve this issue (special flag that allows such changes or something like this?).

Thanks.

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Best regards,
Vlad Zakharov <vzakhar@synopsys.com>

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update timer frequencies Vlad Zakharov <Vladislav.Zakharov@synopsys.com> - 2017-03-10 10:20 +0100
  Re: update timer frequencies Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2017-03-10 11:30 +0100

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