[3.13.y-ckt stable] Patch "clocksource: arch_timer: Fix code to use physical timers when requested" has been added to staging queue
Kamal Mostafa
kamal at canonical.com
Wed Jan 28 22:20:02 UTC 2015
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled
clocksource: arch_timer: Fix code to use physical timers when requested
to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y-ckt extended stable tree
which can be found at:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue
This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11-ckt15.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please
reply to this email.
For more information about the 3.13.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable
Thanks.
-Kamal
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>From a9e33159898e45b2605ead30a67cc7310ed6dee0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao at chromium.org>
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 23:02:44 -0800
Subject: clocksource: arch_timer: Fix code to use physical timers when
requested
commit 0b46b8a718c6e90910a1b1b0fe797be3c167e186 upstream.
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")
Signed-off-by: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao at chromium.org>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano at linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof at lixom.net>
[ kamal: backport to 3.13-stable: context ]
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
arch/arm/include/asm/arch_timer.h | 9 +++++++++
arch/arm64/include/asm/arch_timer.h | 9 +++++++++
drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c | 10 +++++++---
3 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/arch_timer.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/arch_timer.h
index 0704e0c..e72aa4d 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 9400596..6abb872 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/arch_timer.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/arch_timer.h
@@ -135,6 +135,15 @@ static inline void arch_timer_evtstrm_enable(int divider)
#endif
}
+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 95fb944..46884f8 100644
--- a/drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c
+++ b/drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c
@@ -426,10 +426,14 @@ static void __init arch_counter_register(unsigned type)
u64 start_count;
/* Register the CP15 based counter if we have one */
- if (type & ARCH_CP15_TIMER)
- arch_timer_read_counter = arch_counter_get_cntvct;
- else
+ if (type & ARCH_CP15_TIMER) {
+ 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;
+ }
start_count = arch_timer_read_counter();
clocksource_register_hz(&clocksource_counter, arch_timer_rate);
--
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