From: catalin.marinas@arm.com (Catalin Marinas)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCHv5 04/16] arm: arch_timer: standardise counter reading
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:34:55 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130131153455.GH12877@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1359634539-9580-5-git-send-email-mark.rutland@arm.com>
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 12:15:27PM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
> We're currently inconsistent with respect to our accesses to the
> physical and virtual counters, mixing and matching the two.
>
> This patch introduces and uses a function pointer for accessing the
> correct counter based on whether we're using physical or virtual
> interrupts. All current accesses to the counter accessors are redirected
> through it.
>
> When the driver is moved out to drivers/clocksource, there's the
> possibility that code called before the timer code is initialised will
> attempt to call arch_timer_read_counter (e.g. sched_clock for AArch64).
> To avoid having to have to check whether the timer has been initialised
> either in arch_timer_read_counter or one of it's callers, a default
> implementation is assigned that simply returns 0.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
> Cc: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-31 15:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-31 12:15 [PATCHv5 00/16] Unify arm_generic and arch_timer drivers Mark Rutland
2013-01-31 12:15 ` [PATCHv5 01/16] arm: arch_timer: balance device_node refcounting Mark Rutland
2013-01-31 15:33 ` Catalin Marinas
2013-01-31 12:15 ` [PATCHv5 02/16] arm: arch_timer: remove redundant available check Mark Rutland
2013-01-31 12:15 ` [PATCHv5 03/16] arm: arch_timer: use u64/u32 for register data Mark Rutland
2013-01-31 12:15 ` [PATCHv5 04/16] arm: arch_timer: standardise counter reading Mark Rutland
2013-01-31 15:34 ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
2013-01-31 12:15 ` [PATCHv5 05/16] arm: arch_timer: split cntfrq accessor Mark Rutland
2013-01-31 12:15 ` [PATCHv5 06/16] arm: arch_timer: factor out register accessors Mark Rutland
2013-01-31 12:15 ` [PATCHv5 07/16] arm: arch_timer: add isbs to " Mark Rutland
2013-01-31 15:35 ` Catalin Marinas
2013-01-31 12:15 ` [PATCHv5 08/16] arm: arch_timer: divorce from local_timer api Mark Rutland
2013-01-31 12:15 ` [PATCHv5 09/16] arm: arch_timer: add arch_counter_set_user_access Mark Rutland
2013-01-31 15:36 ` Catalin Marinas
2013-01-31 12:15 ` [PATCHv5 10/16] arm: arch_timer: move core to drivers/clocksource Mark Rutland
2013-01-31 12:15 ` [PATCHv5 11/16] arm64: arm_generic: prevent reading stale time Mark Rutland
2013-01-31 15:36 ` Catalin Marinas
2013-01-31 12:15 ` [PATCHv5 12/16] arm64: move from arm_generic to arm_arch_timer Mark Rutland
2013-01-31 12:15 ` [PATCHv5 13/16] Documentation: Add ARMv8 to arch_timer devicetree Mark Rutland
2013-01-31 12:15 ` [PATCHv5 14/16] ARM: arch_timers: switch to physical timers if HYP mode is available Mark Rutland
2013-01-31 15:37 ` Catalin Marinas
2013-01-31 12:15 ` [PATCHv5 15/16] ARM: hyp: initialize CNTVOFF to zero Mark Rutland
2013-02-01 11:13 ` Dave Martin
2013-02-01 11:43 ` Marc Zyngier
2013-02-01 11:46 ` Mark Rutland
2013-02-01 18:07 ` Dave Martin
2013-02-04 9:29 ` Mark Rutland
2013-01-31 12:15 ` [PATCHv5 16/16] clocksource: arch_timer: use virtual counters Mark Rutland
2013-01-31 15:38 ` Catalin Marinas
2013-01-31 17:39 ` [PATCHv5 00/16] Unify arm_generic and arch_timer drivers Stephen Warren
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