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

[Daniel Lezcano]

On 02/05/2016 04:29 PM, Robin Murphy wrote:
> 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?

I will be reviewing timers patches next week. I will take care of this one.

Thanks
   -- Daniel



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