On 08/14/2012 01:52 PM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> From: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx>
>
> This patch adds support for the ARM generic timers with A64 instructions
> for accessing the timer registers. It uses the physical counter as the
> clock source and the virtual counter as sched_clock.
>
> The timer frequency can be specified via DT or read from the CNTFRQ_EL0
> register. The physical counter is also accessible from user space
> allowing fast gettimeofday() implementation.
[...]
> +++ b/drivers/clocksource/arm_generic.c
[...]
> +static void arch_timer_reg_write(int reg, u32 val)
> +{
> + switch (reg) {
> + case ARCH_TIMER_REG_CTRL:
> + asm volatile("msr cntp_ctl_el0, %0" : : "r" (val));
> + break;
> + case ARCH_TIMER_REG_TVAL:
> + asm volatile("msr cntp_tval_el0, %0" : : "r" (val));
> + break;
> + default:
> + BUG();
> + }
> +
> + isb();
> +}
Doesn't architecture-specific assembly need to go in the arch directory rather
than the drivers directory?
Christopher
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