[PATCH 4/7] clocksource: dw_apb_timer_of: make IO endian agnostic

[daniel.lezcano@linaro.org (Daniel Lezcano)]

On 03/25/2015 12:23 PM, Ben Dooks wrote:
> The dw_apb_timer_of timer is using __raw_readl to access the timer
> register, which is causing issues when the system is running in
> big endian mode. Fix this by using readl_relaxed() which should
> account for the endian settings.
>
> This fixes issues where the time jumps around in the dmesg output
> due to returnling __le32 values.
>
> For an example, these two console lines show time running backwards:
>
> [   49.882572] CPU1: failed to come online
> [   43.282457] Brought up 1 CPUs
>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk>

Hi Ben,

Through which tree this patch is supposed to go ?


> --
> CC: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
> CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> CC: Linux ARM Kernel <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
> CC: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@opensource.altera.com>
> ---
>   drivers/clocksource/dw_apb_timer_of.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/dw_apb_timer_of.c b/drivers/clocksource/dw_apb_timer_of.c
> index d305fb0..a19a3f6 100644
> --- a/drivers/clocksource/dw_apb_timer_of.c
> +++ b/drivers/clocksource/dw_apb_timer_of.c
> @@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ static void __init add_clocksource(struct device_node *source_timer)
>
>   static u64 notrace read_sched_clock(void)
>   {
> -	return ~__raw_readl(sched_io_base);
> +	return ~readl_relaxed(sched_io_base);
>   }
>
>   static const struct of_device_id sptimer_ids[] __initconst = {
>


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