Hi all,
SH-Mobile AG5 and R-Car H1 SoCs are based on the Cortex-A9 MPCore, which
includes an ARM global timer.
Enable use of the global timer on these SoCs for scheduling and delay
loops, with the following impact:
- Scheduler accuracy is increased from 10 ms to a few ns,
- Calls to shmobile_init_delay() to preset loops-per-jiffies can be
removed.
Note that when using an old DTB lacking the global timer, the kernel
will still work, but the delay loop will need to be calibrated
during boot.
- This also seems to get rid of lockdep warnings related to the sh_cmt
driver.
We still need shmobile_init_delay() to setup loops-per-jiffies for other
SoCs lacking an architectured or global timer:
- emev2: Cortex-A9 (MPCore version and global timer not documented),
- r7s72100: single-core Cortex-A9 MPCore r3p0 (global timer not
documented),
- r7s9210: single-core Cortex-A9 MPCore r4p1 (global timer not
documented),
- r8a7740: single-core Cortex-A9 r2p4,
- r8a7778: single-core Cortex-A9 r2p2-00rel0.
This has been tested on KZM-A9-GT (SH-Mobile AG5) and Marzen (R-Car H1).
Thanks for your comments!
Geert Uytterhoeven (4):
ARM: dts: sh73a0: Rename twd clock to periph clock
ARM: dts: sh73a0: Add device node for ARM global timer
ARM: dts: r8a7779: Add device node for ARM global timer
[WIP] ARM: shmobile: Enable ARM_GLOBAL_TIMER on Cortex-A9 MPCore SoCs
arch/arm/boot/dts/r8a7779.dtsi | 8 ++++++++
arch/arm/boot/dts/sh73a0.dtsi | 11 +++++++++--
arch/arm/mach-shmobile/Kconfig | 2 ++
arch/arm/mach-shmobile/setup-r8a7779.c | 1 -
arch/arm/mach-shmobile/setup-sh73a0.c | 1 -
5 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
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2.17.1
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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