This erratum describes a bug in logic outside the core, so MIDR can't be used to identify its presence, and reading an SoC-specific revision register from common arch timer code would be awkward. So, describe it in the device tree. Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/arch_timer.txt | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/arch_timer.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/arch_timer.txt index ad440a2..935f142 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/arch_timer.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/arch_timer.txt @@ -31,6 +31,14 @@ to deliver its interrupts via SPIs. This also affects writes to the tval register, due to the implicit counter read. +- hisilicon,erratum-161601 : A boolean property. Indicates the presence of + erratum 161601, which says that reading the counter is unreliable unless + reading twice on the register and the value of the second read is larger + than the first by less than 32. If the verification is unsuccessful, then + discard the value of this read and repeat this procedure until the verification + is successful. This also affects writes to the tval register, due to the + implicit counter read. + ** Optional properties: - arm,cpu-registers-not-fw-configured : Firmware does not initialize -- 1.9.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
