[PATCH v6 05/11] ARM: smp: Add initialization of CNTVOFF

Mylène Josserand mylene.josserand at bootlin.com
Wed Apr 18 03:01:54 PDT 2018


Hello Geert,

On Wed, 18 Apr 2018 11:30:47 +0200
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert at linux-m68k.org> wrote:

> Allo Mylène,
> 
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 11:50 PM, Mylène Josserand
> <mylene.josserand at bootlin.com> wrote:
> > The CNTVOFF register from arch timer is uninitialized.
> > It should be done by the bootloader but it is currently not the case,
> > even for boot CPU because this SoC is booting in secure mode.
> > It leads to an random offset value meaning that each CPU will have a
> > different time, which isn't working very well.
> >
> > Add assembly code used for boot CPU and secondary CPU cores to make
> > sure that the CNTVOFF register is initialized. Because this code can
> > be used by different platforms, add this assembly file in ARM's common
> > folder.  
> 
> Thanks for your patch!
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Mylène Josserand <mylene.josserand at bootlin.com>  
> 
> Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas at glider.be>
> Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas at glider.be>
> 
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
> 
>                         Geert
> 

Great, thank you very much for your test!

Best regards,

-- 
Mylène Josserand, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons)
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://bootlin.com



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