[PATCH v5] clocksource/drivers/timer-clint: Add T-Head C9xx clint

Daniel Lezcano daniel.lezcano at linaro.org
Tue Mar 4 12:51:25 PST 2025


On 17/01/2025 17:45, Jesse Taube wrote:
> From: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang at kernel.org>
> 
> To use the T-HEAD C9xx clint in RISCV-M NOMMU env, we need to take
> care two points:
> 
> 1.The mtimecmp in T-Head C9xx clint only supports 32bit read/write,
> implement such support.
> 
> 2. As pointed out by commit ca7810aecdba ("lib: utils/timer: mtimer:
> add a quirk for lacking mtime register") of opensbi:
> 
> "T-Head developers surely have a different understanding of time CSR and
> CLINT's mtime register with SiFive ones, that they did not implement
> the mtime register at all -- as shown in openC906 source code, their
> time CSR value is just exposed at the top of their processor IP block
> and expects an external continous counter, which makes it not
> overrideable, and thus mtime register is not implemented, even not for
> reading. However, if CLINTEE is not enabled in T-Head's MXSTATUS
> extended CSR, these systems still rely on the mtimecmp registers to
> generate timer interrupts. This makes it necessary to implement T-Head
> C9xx CLINT support in OpenSBI MTIMER driver, which skips implementing
> reading mtime register and falls back to default code that reads time
> CSR."
> 
> So, we need to fall back to read time CSR instead of mtime register.
> Add riscv_csr_time_available static key for this purpose.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang at kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Jesse Taube <Mr.Bossman075 at gmail.com>
> ---
> Treat this as a completely new patch, as it is mostly rewritten.
> Original:
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240410142347.964-3-jszhang@kernel.org/
> V3 -> V4:
>   - Add riscv,csr-clint
>   - Allow using of CSRs in S mode
>   - Change if return else return to if return return
>   - Change static_branch_likely to static_branch_unlikely
>   - Fix 32-bit clint_get_cycles64 csr_available check being inverted
>   - Fix is_c900_clint being uninitialized
> V4 -> V5:
>   - Remove riscv,csr-clint
>   - Remove riscv_csr_time_available
>   - Replace all static_branch_unlikely(&riscv_csr_time_available) with
>      riscv_has_extension_likely(RISCV_ISA_EXT_ZICNTR)
> ---
>   arch/riscv/include/asm/timex.h    | 12 +++++++-
>   drivers/clocksource/timer-clint.c | 50 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>   2 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/timex.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/timex.h
> index a06697846e69..d78075351bf4 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/timex.h
> +++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/timex.h
> @@ -17,17 +17,26 @@ typedef unsigned long cycles_t;
>   #ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
>   static inline cycles_t get_cycles(void)
>   {
> +	if (riscv_has_extension_likely(RISCV_ISA_EXT_ZICNTR))
> +		return csr_read(CSR_TIME);
> +
>   	return readq_relaxed(clint_time_val);
>   }
>   #else /* !CONFIG_64BIT */
>   static inline u32 get_cycles(void)
>   {
> +	if (riscv_has_extension_likely(RISCV_ISA_EXT_ZICNTR))
> +		return csr_read(CSR_TIME);
> +
>   	return readl_relaxed(((u32 *)clint_time_val));
>   }
>   #define get_cycles get_cycles
>   
>   static inline u32 get_cycles_hi(void)
>   {
> +	if (riscv_has_extension_likely(RISCV_ISA_EXT_ZICNTR))
> +		return csr_read(CSR_TIMEH);
> +
>   	return readl_relaxed(((u32 *)clint_time_val) + 1);
>   }
>   #define get_cycles_hi get_cycles_hi
> @@ -40,7 +49,8 @@ static inline u32 get_cycles_hi(void)
>    */
>   static inline unsigned long random_get_entropy(void)
>   {
> -	if (unlikely(clint_time_val == NULL))
> +	if (!riscv_has_extension_likely(RISCV_ISA_EXT_ZICNTR) &&
> +	   (unlikely(clint_time_val == NULL)))
>   		return random_get_entropy_fallback();
>   	return get_cycles();
>   }
> diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/timer-clint.c b/drivers/clocksource/timer-clint.c
> index 0bdd9d7ec545..cdf8b33d2dd2 100644
> --- a/drivers/clocksource/timer-clint.c
> +++ b/drivers/clocksource/timer-clint.c
> @@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ static u64 __iomem *clint_timer_cmp;
>   static u64 __iomem *clint_timer_val;
>   static unsigned long clint_timer_freq;
>   static unsigned int clint_timer_irq;
> +static bool is_c900_clint;
>   
>   #ifdef CONFIG_RISCV_M_MODE
>   u64 __iomem *clint_time_val;
> @@ -79,6 +80,9 @@ static void clint_ipi_interrupt(struct irq_desc *desc)
>   #ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
>   static u64 notrace clint_get_cycles64(void)
>   {
> +	if (riscv_has_extension_likely(RISCV_ISA_EXT_ZICNTR))
> +		return csr_read(CSR_TIME);
> +

Given the critical path from where this routine is called, I suggest to 
create a different function and figure out which one to use when calling 
sched_clock_register().


>   	return clint_get_cycles();
>   }
>   #else /* CONFIG_64BIT */
> @@ -86,10 +90,17 @@ static u64 notrace clint_get_cycles64(void)
>   {
>   	u32 hi, lo;
>   
> -	do {
> -		hi = clint_get_cycles_hi();
> -		lo = clint_get_cycles();
> -	} while (hi != clint_get_cycles_hi());
> +	if (riscv_has_extension_likely(RISCV_ISA_EXT_ZICNTR)) {
> +		do {
> +			hi = csr_read(CSR_TIMEH);
> +			lo = csr_read(CSR_TIME);
> +		} while (hi != csr_read(CSR_TIMEH));
> +	} else {
> +		do {
> +			hi = clint_get_cycles_hi();
> +			lo = clint_get_cycles();
> +		} while (hi != clint_get_cycles_hi());
> +	}

Same comment here.

>   	return ((u64)hi << 32) | lo;
>   }
> @@ -119,6 +130,19 @@ static int clint_clock_next_event(unsigned long delta,
>   	return 0;
>   }
>   
> +static int c900_clint_clock_next_event(unsigned long delta,
> +				       struct clock_event_device *ce)
> +{
> +	void __iomem *r = clint_timer_cmp +
> +			  cpuid_to_hartid_map(smp_processor_id());
> +	u64 val = clint_get_cycles64() + delta;
> +
> +	csr_set(CSR_IE, IE_TIE);
> +	writel_relaxed(val, r);
> +	writel_relaxed(val >> 32, r + 4);
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
>   static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct clock_event_device, clint_clock_event) = {
>   	.name		= "clint_clockevent",
>   	.features	= CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_ONESHOT,
> @@ -130,6 +154,9 @@ static int clint_timer_starting_cpu(unsigned int cpu)
>   {
>   	struct clock_event_device *ce = per_cpu_ptr(&clint_clock_event, cpu);
>   
> +	if (is_c900_clint)
> +		ce->set_next_event = c900_clint_clock_next_event;
> +
>   	ce->cpumask = cpumask_of(cpu);
>   	clockevents_config_and_register(ce, clint_timer_freq, 100, ULONG_MAX);
>   
> @@ -161,7 +188,7 @@ static irqreturn_t clint_timer_interrupt(int irq, void *dev_id)
>   	return IRQ_HANDLED;
>   }
>   
> -static int __init clint_timer_init_dt(struct device_node *np)
> +static int __init clint_timer_init(struct device_node *np)
>   {
>   	int rc;
>   	u32 i, nr_irqs;
> @@ -273,5 +300,18 @@ static int __init clint_timer_init_dt(struct device_node *np)
>   	return rc;
>   }
>   
> +static int __init clint_timer_init_dt(struct device_node *np)
> +{
> +	is_c900_clint = false;
> +	return clint_timer_init(np);
> +}
> +
> +static int __init c900_clint_timer_init_dt(struct device_node *np)
> +{
> +	is_c900_clint = true;
> +	return clint_timer_init(np);
> +}
> +
>   TIMER_OF_DECLARE(clint_timer, "riscv,clint0", clint_timer_init_dt);
>   TIMER_OF_DECLARE(clint_timer1, "sifive,clint0", clint_timer_init_dt);
> +TIMER_OF_DECLARE(clint_timer2, "thead,c900-clint", c900_clint_timer_init_dt);


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