This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled clocksource: arch_timer: Fix code to use physical timers when to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: clocksource-arch_timer-fix-code-to-use-physical-timers-when.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 0b46b8a718c6e90910a1b1b0fe797be3c167e186 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 23:02:44 -0800 Subject: clocksource: arch_timer: Fix code to use physical timers when requested From: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@xxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 0b46b8a718c6e90910a1b1b0fe797be3c167e186 upstream. This is a bug fix for using physical arch timers when the arch_timer_use_virtual boolean is false. It restores the arch_counter_get_cntpct() function after removal in 0d651e4e "clocksource: arch_timer: use virtual counters" We need this on certain ARMv7 systems which are architected like this: * The firmware doesn't know and doesn't care about hypervisor mode and we don't want to add the complexity of hypervisor there. * The firmware isn't involved in SMP bringup or resume. * The ARCH timer come up with an uninitialized offset between the virtual and physical counters. Each core gets a different random offset. * The device boots in "Secure SVC" mode. * Nothing has touched the reset value of CNTHCTL.PL1PCEN or CNTHCTL.PL1PCTEN (both default to 1 at reset) One example of such as system is RK3288 where it is much simpler to use the physical counter since there's nobody managing the offset and each time a core goes down and comes back up it will get reinitialized to some other random value. Fixes: 0d651e4e65e9 ("clocksource: arch_timer: use virtual counters") Signed-off-by: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/arm/include/asm/arch_timer.h | 9 +++++++++ arch/arm64/include/asm/arch_timer.h | 9 +++++++++ drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c | 5 ++++- 3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/arch_timer.h +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/arch_timer.h @@ -78,6 +78,15 @@ static inline u32 arch_timer_get_cntfrq( return val; } +static inline u64 arch_counter_get_cntpct(void) +{ + u64 cval; + + isb(); + asm volatile("mrrc p15, 0, %Q0, %R0, c14" : "=r" (cval)); + return cval; +} + static inline u64 arch_counter_get_cntvct(void) { u64 cval; --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/arch_timer.h +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/arch_timer.h @@ -104,6 +104,15 @@ static inline void arch_timer_set_cntkct asm volatile("msr cntkctl_el1, %0" : : "r" (cntkctl)); } +static inline u64 arch_counter_get_cntpct(void) +{ + /* + * AArch64 kernel and user space mandate the use of CNTVCT. + */ + BUG(); + return 0; +} + static inline u64 arch_counter_get_cntvct(void) { u64 cval; --- a/drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c +++ b/drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c @@ -462,7 +462,10 @@ static void __init arch_counter_register /* Register the CP15 based counter if we have one */ if (type & ARCH_CP15_TIMER) { - arch_timer_read_counter = arch_counter_get_cntvct; + if (arch_timer_use_virtual) + arch_timer_read_counter = arch_counter_get_cntvct; + else + arch_timer_read_counter = arch_counter_get_cntpct; } else { arch_timer_read_counter = arch_counter_get_cntvct_mem; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from sonnyrao@xxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.18/clocksource-arch_timer-fix-code-to-use-physical-timers-when.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html