[PATCH v5] clocksource: arch_timer: Fix code to use physical timers when requested

Sonny Rao sonnyrao at chromium.org
Sun Nov 23 23:02:44 PST 2014


This is a bug fix for using physical arch timers when
the arch_timer_use_virtual boolean is false.  It restores the
arch_counter_get_cntpct() function after removal in

0d651e4e "clocksource: arch_timer: use virtual counters"

We need this on certain ARMv7 systems which are architected like this:

* The firmware doesn't know and doesn't care about hypervisor mode and
  we don't want to add the complexity of hypervisor there.

* The firmware isn't involved in SMP bringup or resume.

* The ARCH timer come up with an uninitialized offset between the
  virtual and physical counters.  Each core gets a different random
  offset.

* The device boots in "Secure SVC" mode.

* Nothing has touched the reset value of CNTHCTL.PL1PCEN or
  CNTHCTL.PL1PCTEN (both default to 1 at reset)

One example of such as system is RK3288 where it is much simpler to
use the physical counter since there's nobody managing the offset and
each time a core goes down and comes back up it will get reinitialized
to some other random value.

Fixes: 0d651e4e65e9 ("clocksource: arch_timer: use virtual counters")
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao at chromium.org>
Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof at lixom.net>
---
v2: Add fixes tag to commit message, cc stable, copy Doug's
    description of the systems which need this in commit message.
v3: Don't change the memory-mapped physical timer/counter code
v4: remove the memory-mapped physical counter code since it's not used
v5: rebase and make AArch64 version of arch_counter_get_cntpct call BUG()
---
 arch/arm/include/asm/arch_timer.h    | 9 +++++++++
 arch/arm64/include/asm/arch_timer.h  | 9 +++++++++
 drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c | 5 ++++-
 3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/arch_timer.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/arch_timer.h
index 92793ba..d4ebf56 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/arch_timer.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/arch_timer.h
@@ -78,6 +78,15 @@ static inline u32 arch_timer_get_cntfrq(void)
 	return val;
 }
 
+static inline u64 arch_counter_get_cntpct(void)
+{
+	u64 cval;
+
+	isb();
+	asm volatile("mrrc p15, 0, %Q0, %R0, c14" : "=r" (cval));
+	return cval;
+}
+
 static inline u64 arch_counter_get_cntvct(void)
 {
 	u64 cval;
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/arch_timer.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/arch_timer.h
index f190971..b1fa4e6 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/arch_timer.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/arch_timer.h
@@ -104,6 +104,15 @@ static inline void arch_timer_set_cntkctl(u32 cntkctl)
 	asm volatile("msr	cntkctl_el1, %0" : : "r" (cntkctl));
 }
 
+static inline u64 arch_counter_get_cntpct(void)
+{
+	/*
+	 * AArch64 kernel and user space mandate the use of CNTVCT.
+	 */
+	BUG();
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static inline u64 arch_counter_get_cntvct(void)
 {
 	u64 cval;
diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c b/drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c
index 43005d4..1fa2af9 100644
--- a/drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c
+++ b/drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c
@@ -462,7 +462,10 @@ static void __init arch_counter_register(unsigned type)
 
 	/* Register the CP15 based counter if we have one */
 	if (type & ARCH_CP15_TIMER) {
-		arch_timer_read_counter = arch_counter_get_cntvct;
+		if (arch_timer_use_virtual)
+			arch_timer_read_counter = arch_counter_get_cntvct;
+		else
+			arch_timer_read_counter = arch_counter_get_cntpct;
 	} else {
 		arch_timer_read_counter = arch_counter_get_cntvct_mem;
 
-- 
2.1.0.rc2.206.gedb03e5




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