[PATCH] RISC-V: Resurrect the MMIO timer implementation for M-mode systems

Palmer Dabbelt palmerdabbelt at google.com
Mon Sep 14 23:06:04 EDT 2020


On Mon, 14 Sep 2020 10:22:01 PDT (-0700), mab at mab-labs.com wrote:
> I can test this for you. Can you provide a high level description on
> what you'd like tested (it's not obvious to me what impact your patch
> will have)?

Just booting on the K210 should be sufficient.  I doubt you even need
userspace, as you should get an illegal instruction pretty quickly without
this.

>
> Thanks
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 1:16 PM Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt at google.com> wrote:
>>
>> The K210 doesn't implement rdtime in M-mode, and since that's where Linux runs
>> in the NOMMU systems that means we can't use rdtime.  The K210 is the only
>> system that anyone is currently running NOMMU or M-mode on, so here we're just
>> inlining the timer read directly.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt at google.com>
>> ---
>> I don't actually have a K210 so I haven't tested this.  If nobody else has the
>> time to I'll put together a QEMU that doesn't support rdtime in M-mode, but
>> I've yet to mess around with the !MMU stuff so that might take a little while.
>> This certainly doesn't seem worse than what's there right now, though, as
>> rdtime isn't valid in M-mode on the K210 (our only M-mode platform).
>> ---
>>  arch/riscv/include/asm/clint.h    | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  arch/riscv/include/asm/timex.h    | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  drivers/clocksource/timer-clint.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
>>  3 files changed, 70 insertions(+)
>>  create mode 100644 arch/riscv/include/asm/clint.h
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/clint.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/clint.h
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 000000000000..0789fd37b40a
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/clint.h
>> @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
>> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only */
>> +/*
>> + * Copyright (C) 2020 Google, Inc
>> + */
>> +
>> +#ifndef _ASM_RISCV_CLINT_H
>> +#define _ASM_RISCV_CLINT_H
>> +
>> +#include <linux/types.h>
>> +#include <asm/mmio.h>
>> +
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_RISCV_M_MODE
>> +/*
>> + * This lives in the CLINT driver, but is accessed directly by timex.h to avoid
>> + * any overhead when accessing the MMIO timer.
>> + *
>> + * The ISA defines mtime as a 64-bit memory-mapped register that increments at
>> + * a constant frequency, but it doesn't define some other constraints we depend
>> + * on (most notably ordering constraints, but also some simpler stuff like the
>> + * memory layout).  Thus, this is called "clint_time_val" instead of something
>> + * like "riscv_mtime", to signify that these non-ISA assumptions must hold.
>> + */
>> +extern u64 __iomem *clint_time_val;
>> +#endif
>> +
>> +#endif
>> diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/timex.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/timex.h
>> index a3fb85d505d4..7f659dda0032 100644
>> --- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/timex.h
>> +++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/timex.h
>> @@ -10,6 +10,31 @@
>>
>>  typedef unsigned long cycles_t;
>>
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_RISCV_M_MODE
>> +
>> +#include <asm/clint.h>
>> +
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
>> +static inline cycles_t get_cycles(void)
>> +{
>> +       return readq_relaxed(clint_time_val);
>> +}
>> +#else /* !CONFIG_64BIT */
>> +static inline u32 get_cycles(void)
>> +{
>> +       return readl_relaxed(((u32 *)clint_time_val));
>> +}
>> +#define get_cycles get_cycles
>> +
>> +static inline u32 get_cycles_hi(void)
>> +{
>> +       return readl_relaxed(((u32 *)clint_time_val) + 1);
>> +}
>> +#define get_cycles_hi get_cycles_hi
>> +#endif /* CONFIG_64BIT */
>> +
>> +#else /* CONFIG_RISCV_M_MODE */
>> +
>>  static inline cycles_t get_cycles(void)
>>  {
>>         return csr_read(CSR_TIME);
>> @@ -41,6 +66,8 @@ static inline u64 get_cycles64(void)
>>  }
>>  #endif /* CONFIG_64BIT */
>>
>> +#endif /* !CONFIG_RISCV_M_MODE */
>> +
>>  #define ARCH_HAS_READ_CURRENT_TIMER
>>  static inline int read_current_timer(unsigned long *timer_val)
>>  {
>> diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/timer-clint.c b/drivers/clocksource/timer-clint.c
>> index 8eeafa82c03d..d17367dee02c 100644
>> --- a/drivers/clocksource/timer-clint.c
>> +++ b/drivers/clocksource/timer-clint.c
>> @@ -19,6 +19,11 @@
>>  #include <linux/interrupt.h>
>>  #include <linux/of_irq.h>
>>  #include <linux/smp.h>
>> +#include <linux/timex.h>
>> +
>> +#ifndef CONFIG_RISCV_M_MODE
>> +#include <asm/clint.h>
>> +#endif
>>
>>  #define CLINT_IPI_OFF          0
>>  #define CLINT_TIMER_CMP_OFF    0x4000
>> @@ -31,6 +36,10 @@ static u64 __iomem *clint_timer_val;
>>  static unsigned long clint_timer_freq;
>>  static unsigned int clint_timer_irq;
>>
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_RISCV_M_MODE
>> +u64 __iomem *clint_time_val;
>> +#endif
>> +
>>  static void clint_send_ipi(const struct cpumask *target)
>>  {
>>         unsigned int cpu;
>> @@ -184,6 +193,14 @@ static int __init clint_timer_init_dt(struct device_node *np)
>>         clint_timer_val = base + CLINT_TIMER_VAL_OFF;
>>         clint_timer_freq = riscv_timebase;
>>
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_RISCV_M_MODE
>> +       /*
>> +        * Yes, that's an odd naming scheme.  time_val is public, but hopefully
>> +        * will die in favor of something cleaner.
>> +        */
>> +       clint_time_val = clint_timer_val;
>> +#endif
>> +
>>         pr_info("%pOFP: timer running at %ld Hz\n", np, clint_timer_freq);
>>
>>         rc = clocksource_register_hz(&clint_clocksource, clint_timer_freq);
>> --
>> 2.28.0.618.gf4bc123cb7-goog
>>
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