Dear All,
ARM Architected Timers are present in all CortexA7/A15 based Samsung
Exynos SoCs. So far they were not enabled, because there were some issues
related to their initialization. Samsung Exynos SoCs used custom timer
hardware - Exynos MultiCore Timer. It turned out that enabling MCT it is
also needed to get ARM Architected Timers working, because they both
share some common hardware blocks (global system counter).
This patchset enables support for ARM Architected Timer driver together
with a standard Exynos MultiCore Timer driver, which is kept as a default
timer source on ARM 32bit platforms. Support for ARM architected timers
is essential for enabling proper KVM support on those platforms.
Some of the MCT cleanup patches were earlier a part of the similar
patchset for ARM64-based Exynos5433 SoC.
Best regards
Marek Szyprowski
Samsung R&D Institute Poland
Marek Szyprowski (5):
clocksource: exynos_mct: Remove dead code
clocksource: exynos_mct: Fix error path in timer resources
initialization
clocksource: exynos_mct: Increase priority over ARM arch timer
ARM: dts: exynos: Add support ARM architected timers
ARM: exynos: Enable support for ARM architected timers
arch/arm/boot/dts/exynos3250.dtsi | 10 ++++++++++
arch/arm/boot/dts/exynos5250.dtsi | 1 +
arch/arm/boot/dts/exynos54xx.dtsi | 10 ++++++++++
arch/arm/mach-exynos/Kconfig | 1 +
drivers/clocksource/exynos_mct.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++----------
include/linux/cpuhotplug.h | 2 +-
6 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
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2.17.1
