linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.8 12/92] ARC: timer: rtc: implement read loop in "C" vs. inline asm

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Date:   Thu, 17 Nov 2016 11:31:45 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
        Vineet Gupta <vgupta@...opsys.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.8 12/92] ARC: timer: rtc: implement read loop in "C" vs. inline asm

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

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

From: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@...opsys.com>

commit 922cc171998ac3dbe74d57011ef7ed57e9b0d7df upstream.

The current code doesn't even compile as somehow the inline assembly
can't see the register names defined as ARC_RTC_*
I'm pretty sure It worked when I first got it merged, but the tools were
definitely different then.

So better to write this in "C" anyways.

Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@...opsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/arc/kernel/time.c |   19 +++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/arc/kernel/time.c
+++ b/arch/arc/kernel/time.c
@@ -152,14 +152,17 @@ static cycle_t arc_read_rtc(struct clock
 		cycle_t  full;
 	} stamp;
 
-
-	__asm__ __volatile(
-	"1:						\n"
-	"	lr		%0, [AUX_RTC_LOW]	\n"
-	"	lr		%1, [AUX_RTC_HIGH]	\n"
-	"	lr		%2, [AUX_RTC_CTRL]	\n"
-	"	bbit0.nt	%2, 31, 1b		\n"
-	: "=r" (stamp.low), "=r" (stamp.high), "=r" (status));
+	/*
+	 * hardware has an internal state machine which tracks readout of
+	 * low/high and updates the CTRL.status if
+	 *  - interrupt/exception taken between the two reads
+	 *  - high increments after low has been read
+	 */
+	do {
+		stamp.low = read_aux_reg(AUX_RTC_LOW);
+		stamp.high = read_aux_reg(AUX_RTC_HIGH);
+		status = read_aux_reg(AUX_RTC_CTRL);
+	} while (!(status & _BITUL(31)));
 
 	return stamp.full;
 }