linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.18 07/84] clocksource: arch_timer: Fix code to use physical timers when requested

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Date:	Tue,  6 Jan 2015 17:49:10 -0800
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@...omium.org>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>
Subject: [PATCH 3.18 07/84] clocksource: arch_timer: Fix code to use physical timers when requested

3.18-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@...omium.org>

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@...omium.org>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 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(-)

--- 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(
 	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;
--- 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_cntkct
 	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;
--- a/drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c
+++ b/drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c
@@ -462,7 +462,10 @@ static void __init arch_counter_register
 
 	/* 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;
 


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