[PATCH v2] clocksource/arm_arch_timer: Enable and verify MMIO access

Robin Murphy robin.murphy at arm.com
Fri Feb 5 07:29:12 PST 2016


On 01/02/16 19:58, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> On 02/01, Robin Murphy wrote:
>> So far, we have been blindly assuming that having access to a
>> memory-mapped timer frame implies that the individual elements of that
>> frame frame are already enabled. Whilst it's the firmware's job to give
>> us non-secure access to frames in the first place, we should not rely
>> on implementations always being generous enough to also configure CNTACR
>> for those non-secure frames (e.g. [1]).
>>
>> Explicitly enable feature-level access per-frame, and verify that the
>> access we want is really implemented before trying to make use of it.
>>
>> [1]:https://github.com/ARM-software/tf-issues/issues/170
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy at arm.com>
>> ---
>
> Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd at codeaurora.org>
> Tested-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd at codeaurora.org>

Great, thanks!

Daniel, am I right in hoping this is something you'll pick up, or should 
I be resending it to arm-soc?

Thanks,
Robin.




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