[PATCH 3/3] ARM: EXYNOS5250: Register architected timers

Sergei Shtylyov sergei.shtylyov at cogentembedded.com
Thu Mar 14 15:07:06 EDT 2013


Hello.

On 14-03-2013 4:59, Alexander Graf wrote:

> When running on an exynos 5250 SoC, we don't initialize the architected
> timers. The chip however supports architected timers.

> When we don't initialize them, KVM will try to access them and run into
> NULL pointer dereferences attempting to do so.

> This patch is really more of a hack than a real fix, but does get me
> working with KVM on Arndale.

> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf at suse.de>
> ---
>   arch/arm/mach-exynos/mct.c |    4 ++++
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-exynos/mct.c b/arch/arm/mach-exynos/mct.c
> index c9d6650..eefb8af 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mach-exynos/mct.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-exynos/mct.c
> @@ -482,4 +482,8 @@ void __init exynos4_timer_init(void)
>   	exynos4_timer_resources();
>   	exynos4_clocksource_init();
>   	exynos4_clockevent_init();
> +
> +	if (soc_is_exynos5250()) {
> +		arch_timer_of_register();
> +	}

    {} not needed here. scripts/checkpatch.pl should probabl;y warn about it.

WBR, Sergei




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