Re: [PATCH 2/2] ARM: local timers: add timer support using IO mapped register

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On 8/11/2012 3:04 AM, Marc Zyngier wrote:
Hi Rohit,

On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 14:58:41 -0700, Rohit Vaswani
<rvaswani@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
The current arch_timer only support accessing through CP15 interface.
Add support for ARM processors that only support IO mapped register
interface
This is quite a departure from the current implementation, which raises a
couple of questions:
- What does CP15 ID_PFR1[19:16] report? Can we easily detect that we do
not have the CP15 interface?
- What about HYP mode? Is there any way to control the access of the
physical timer at PL1?
Yes - we can easily detect if CP15 interface is not present. The PFR1 [19:16] are 0 for this implementation.
How is the access control managed currently for the Physical timer ?
Signed-off-by: Rohit Vaswani <rvaswani@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
  .../devicetree/bindings/arm/arch_timer.txt         |    7 +
  arch/arm/kernel/arch_timer.c                       |  259
  ++++++++++++++++----
  2 files changed, 223 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/arch_timer.txt
b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/arch_timer.txt
index 52478c8..1c71799 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/arch_timer.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/arch_timer.txt
@@ -14,6 +14,13 @@ The timer is attached to a GIC to deliver its
per-processor interrupts.
- clock-frequency : The frequency of the main counter, in Hz. Optional. +- irq-is-not-percpu: Specify is the timer irq is *NOT* a percpu (PPI)
interrupt
+  In the default case i.e without this property, the timer irq is
treated
as a
+  PPI interrupt. Optional.
Ouch! How do you specify the various interrupts for all CPUs? Do you end
up with 4 SPIs per CPU?

+- If the node address and reg is specified, the arch_timer will try to
use the memory
+  mapped timer. Optional.
+
  Example:
timer {
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/arch_timer.c b/arch/arm/kernel/arch_timer.c
index 1d0d9df..09604b7 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/arch_timer.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/arch_timer.c
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
  #include <linux/clockchips.h>
  #include <linux/interrupt.h>
  #include <linux/of_irq.h>
+#include <linux/of_address.h>
  #include <linux/io.h>
#include <asm/cputype.h>
@@ -29,8 +30,17 @@
  static unsigned long arch_timer_rate;
  static int arch_timer_ppi;
  static int arch_timer_ppi2;
+static int is_irq_percpu;
static struct clock_event_device __percpu **arch_timer_evt;
+static void __iomem *timer_base;
+
+struct arch_timer_operations {
+	void (*reg_write)(int, u32);
+	u32 (*reg_read)(int);
+	cycle_t (*get_cntpct)(void);
+	cycle_t (*get_cntvct)(void);
+};
I already have something similar in a patch series that I'd like to get
merged in 3.7, implementing support for the virtual timers (needed for
virtualisation). Have a look at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/maz/arm-platforms.git
timers-next
I am working on a patch based on this and will send this out soon.
<snip>


Thanks,
Rohit Vaswani

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