[PATCH v2] clocksource: arch_timer: Fix code to use physical timers when requested

[Daniel Lezcano]

Hi Sonny,

is this patch supposed to go through my tree or ARM's tree ?

Thanks

   -- Daniel

On 09/12/2014 12:18 AM, Sonny Rao wrote:
 > This is a bug fix for using physical arch timers when
> the arch_timer_use_virtual boolean is false.  It restores the
> arch_counter_get_cntpct() function after removal in
>
> 0d651e4e "clocksource: arch_timer: use virtual counters"
>
> and completes the implementation of memory mapped access for physical
> timers, so if a system is trying to use physical timers, it will
> function properly.
>
> We need this on certain ARMv7 systems which are architected like this:
>
> * The firmware doesn't know and doesn't care about hypervisor mode and
>    we don't want to add the complexity of hypervisor there.
>
> * The firmware isn't involved in SMP bringup or resume.
>
> * The ARCH timer come up with an uninitialized offset between the
>    virtual and physical counters.  Each core gets a different random
>    offset.
>
> * The device boots in "Secure SVC" mode.
>
> * Nothing has touched the reset value of CNTHCTL.PL1PCEN or
>    CNTHCTL.PL1PCTEN (both default to 1 at reset)
>
> One example of such as system is RK3288 where it is much simpler to
> use the physical counter since there's nobody managing the offset and
> each time a core goes down and comes back up it will get reinitialized
> to some other random value.
>
> Fixes: 0d651e4e65e9 ("clocksource: arch_timer: use virtual counters")
> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao at chromium.org>
> Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof at lixom.net>
> ---
> v2: Add fixes tag to commit message, cc stable, copy Doug's
>      description of the systems which need this in commit message.
> ---
>   arch/arm/include/asm/arch_timer.h    |  9 +++++++++
>   arch/arm64/include/asm/arch_timer.h  | 10 ++++++++++
>   drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>   3 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/arch_timer.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/arch_timer.h
> index 0704e0c..e72aa4d 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/arch_timer.h
> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/arch_timer.h
> @@ -78,6 +78,15 @@ static inline u32 arch_timer_get_cntfrq(void)
>   	return val;
>   }
>
> +static inline u64 arch_counter_get_cntpct(void)
> +{
> +	u64 cval;
> +
> +	isb();
> +	asm volatile("mrrc p15, 0, %Q0, %R0, c14" : "=r" (cval));
> +	return cval;
> +}
> +
>   static inline u64 arch_counter_get_cntvct(void)
>   {
>   	u64 cval;
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/arch_timer.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/arch_timer.h
> index 9400596..58657c4 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/arch_timer.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/arch_timer.h
> @@ -135,6 +135,16 @@ static inline void arch_timer_evtstrm_enable(int divider)
>   #endif
>   }
>
> +static inline u64 arch_counter_get_cntpct(void)
> +{
> +	u64 cval;
> +
> +	isb();
> +	asm volatile("mrs %0, cntpct_el0" : "=r" (cval));
> +
> +	return cval;
> +}
> +
>   static inline u64 arch_counter_get_cntvct(void)
>   {
>   	u64 cval;
> diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c b/drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c
> index 5163ec1..ad723cb 100644
> --- a/drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c
> +++ b/drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c
> @@ -30,6 +30,8 @@
>   #define CNTTIDR		0x08
>   #define CNTTIDR_VIRT(n)	(BIT(1) << ((n) * 4))
>
> +#define CNTPCT_LO	0x00
> +#define CNTPCT_HI	0x04
>   #define CNTVCT_LO	0x08
>   #define CNTVCT_HI	0x0c
>   #define CNTFRQ		0x10
> @@ -386,6 +388,19 @@ static u64 arch_counter_get_cntvct_mem(void)
>   	return ((u64) vct_hi << 32) | vct_lo;
>   }
>
> +static u64 arch_counter_get_cntpct_mem(void)
> +{
> +	u32 pct_lo, pct_hi, tmp_hi;
> +
> +	do {
> +		pct_hi = readl_relaxed(arch_counter_base + CNTPCT_HI);
> +		pct_lo = readl_relaxed(arch_counter_base + CNTPCT_LO);
> +		tmp_hi = readl_relaxed(arch_counter_base + CNTPCT_HI);
> +	} while (pct_hi != tmp_hi);
> +
> +	return ((u64) pct_hi << 32) | pct_lo;
> +}
> +
>   /*
>    * Default to cp15 based access because arm64 uses this function for
>    * sched_clock() before DT is probed and the cp15 method is guaranteed
> @@ -429,10 +444,17 @@ static void __init arch_counter_register(unsigned type)
>   	u64 start_count;
>
>   	/* Register the CP15 based counter if we have one */
> -	if (type & ARCH_CP15_TIMER)
> -		arch_timer_read_counter = arch_counter_get_cntvct;
> -	else
> -		arch_timer_read_counter = arch_counter_get_cntvct_mem;
> +	if (type & ARCH_CP15_TIMER) {
> +		if (arch_timer_use_virtual)
> +			arch_timer_read_counter = arch_counter_get_cntvct;
> +		else
> +			arch_timer_read_counter = arch_counter_get_cntpct;
> +	} else {
> +		if (arch_timer_use_virtual)
> +			arch_timer_read_counter = arch_counter_get_cntvct_mem;
> +		else
> +			arch_timer_read_counter = arch_counter_get_cntpct_mem;
> +	}
>
>   	start_count = arch_timer_read_counter();
>   	clocksource_register_hz(&clocksource_counter, arch_timer_rate);
>


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