[PATCH v5 0/6] arm64: arch_timer: Add workaround for hisilicon-161601 erratum

[Ding Tianhong]

On 2017/1/3 18:03, Hanjun Guo wrote:
> Hi Ding,
> 
> On 2016/12/23 15:04, Ding Tianhong wrote:
>> Erratum Hisilicon-161601 says that the ARM generic timer counter "has the
>> potential to contain an erroneous value when the timer value changes".
>> Accesses to TVAL (both read and write) are also affected due to the implicit counter
>> read.  Accesses to CVAL are not affected.
>>
>> The workaround is to reread the system count registers until the value of the second
>> read is larger than the first one by less than 32, the system counter can be guaranteed
>> not to return wrong value twice by back-to-back read and the error value is always larger
>> than the correct one by 32. Writes to TVAL are replaced with an equivalent write to CVAL.
>>
>> v2: Introducing a new generic erratum handling mechanism for fsl,a008585 and hisilicon,161601.
>>     Significant rework based on feedback, including seperate the fsl erratum a008585
>>     to another patch, update the erratum name and remove unwanted code.
>>
>> v3: Introducing the erratum_workaround_set_sne generic function for fsl erratum a008585
>>     and make the #define __fsl_a008585_read_reg to be private to the .c file instead of
>>     being globally visible. After discussion with Marc and Will, a consensus decision was
>>     made to remove the commandline parameter for enabling fsl,erratum-a008585 erratum,
>>     and make some generic name more specific, export timer_unstable_counter_workaround
>>     for module access.
>>     
>>     Significant rework based on feedback, including fix some alignment problem, make the
>>     #define __hisi_161601_read_reg to be private to the .c file instead of being globally
>>     visible, add more accurate annotation and modify a bit of logical format to enable
>>     arch_timer_read_ool_enabled, remove the kernel commandline parameter
>>     clocksource.arm_arch_timer.hisilicon-161601.
>>
>>     Introduce a generic aquick framework for erratum in ACPI mode.
>>
>> v4: rename the quirk handler parameter to make it more generic, and
>>     avoid break loop when handling the quirk becasue it need to
>>     support multi quirks handler.
>>
>>     update some data structures for acpi mode. 
>>
>> v5: Adapt the new kernel-parameters.txt for latest kernel version.
>>     Set the retries of reread system counter to 50, because it is possible 
>>     that some interrupts may lead to more than twice read errors and break the loop,
>>     it will trigger the warning, so we set the number of retries far beyond the number of
>>     iterations the loop has been observed to take.
>>
>> Ding Tianhong (4):
>>   arm64: arch_timer: Add device tree binding for hisilicon-161601
>>     erratum
>>   arm64: arch_timer: Introduce a generic erratum handing mechanism for
>>     fsl-a008585
>>   arm64: arch_timer: Work around Erratum Hisilicon-161601
>>   arm64: arch timer: Add timer erratum property for Hip05-d02 and
>>     Hip06-d03
>>
>> Hanjun Guo (2):
>>   arm64: arch_timer: apci: Introduce a generic aquirk framework for
>>     erratum
>>   arm64: arch_timer: acpi: add hisi timer errata data
> 
> Since the ACPI code is conflict with Fuwei's GTDT patch set, let's split this patch
> set into two parts, one is the DT based code, and the other is the ACPI part,
> I will rebase ACPI code on top of Fuwei's patch set so please go upstream first.
> 

Hi Hanjuno<

OK, I will remove the last 2 patch and resend a new version only support DT.

> Thanks
> Hanjun
> 
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