[PATCH 06/17] arm64: arch_timer: Get rid of erratum_workaround_set_sne
Mark Rutland
mark.rutland at arm.com
Mon Mar 20 07:06:18 PDT 2017
On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 11:26:11AM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> Let's move the handling of workarounds affecting set_next_event
> to the affected function, instead of overwriding the pointers
Nit: overriding
> as an afterthough. Yes, this is an extra indirection on the
> erratum handling path, but the HW is busted anyway.
[...]
> +#define erratum_set_next_event_tval_virt(...) ({BUG_ON(1); 0;})
> +#define erratum_set_next_event_tval_phys(...) ({BUG_ON(1); 0;})
Nit: BUG()
[...]
> {
> + if (needs_unstable_timer_counter_workaround())
> + return erratum_set_next_event_tval_virt(evt, clk);
> +
> set_next_event(ARCH_TIMER_VIRT_ACCESS, evt, clk);
> return 0;
> }
> @@ -487,6 +490,9 @@ static int arch_timer_set_next_event_virt(unsigned long evt,
> static int arch_timer_set_next_event_phys(unsigned long evt,
> struct clock_event_device *clk)
> {
> + if (needs_unstable_timer_counter_workaround())
> + return erratum_set_next_event_tval_phys(evt, clk);
> +
> set_next_event(ARCH_TIMER_PHYS_ACCESS, evt, clk);
> return 0;
> }
I take it that the new conditionals are NOPs in the !erratum case, so
this doesn't adversely affect the usual case.
Thanks,
Mark.
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