[PATCH 1/3] arm64: arch_timer: Add device tree binding for hisilicon-161x01 erratum
Ding Tianhong
dingtianhong at huawei.com
Sat Oct 22 20:21:10 PDT 2016
This erratum describes a bug in logic outside the core, so MIDR can't be
used to identify its presence, and reading an SoC-specific revision
register from common arch timer code would be awkward. So, describe it
in the device tree.
Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong at huawei.com>
---
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/arch_timer.txt | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/arch_timer.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/arch_timer.txt
index ef5fbe9..26bc837 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/arch_timer.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/arch_timer.txt
@@ -31,6 +31,12 @@ to deliver its interrupts via SPIs.
This also affects writes to the tval register, due to the implicit
counter read.
+- hisilicon,erratum-161x01 : A boolean property. Indicates the presence of
+ QorIQ erratum 161201, which says that reading the counter is
+ unreliable unless the small range of value is returned by back-to-back reads.
+ This also affects writes to the tval register, due to the implicit
+ counter read.
+
** Optional properties:
- arm,cpu-registers-not-fw-configured : Firmware does not initialize
--
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