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

[Robin Murphy]

On 05/02/16 15:32, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> 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.

Cool, thanks for the confirmation.

Robin.

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> Thanks
>    -- Daniel
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