1. 29 Jan, 2015 1 commit
    • Sonny Rao's avatar
      clocksource: arch_timer: Fix code to use physical timers when requested · 658576fe
      Sonny Rao authored
      commit 0b46b8a7 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: 0d651e4e ("clocksource: arch_timer: use virtual counters")
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSonny Rao <sonnyrao@chromium.org>
      Acked-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarDaniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarOlof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
      [ kamal: backport to 3.13-stable: context ]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarKamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
      658576fe
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