Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] clocksource/drivers/exynos_mct: Support local-timer-index property

[Vincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@axis.com>]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 09:00:08AM +0100, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> Right, I've played a bit with MCT on some older Exynos SoCs (ARM 32bit 
> based and even Exynos5433) and it looked that none of it enabled MCT FRC 
> timer in their proprietary firmware. I've even proposed a patch for this 
> once ([1]), but such approach has been rejected. I think that calling 
> exynos4_mct_frc_start() unconditionally won't hurt.

Thank you for looking into this.  The proposal was however not to avoid
changing when exynos4_mct_frc_start() is called, but to instead skip the
write to the Timer Enable bit of the G_TCON register if it is already
set, like in the below patch.  (This is needed to avoid races when the
FRC is shared between CPUs in an AMP configuration, since TCON can be
modified for other reasons from the CPU which is using the global
comparator.)

If I understand your comment correctly, such a change should not cause
any difference at least on the platforms you looked at since there
MCT_G_TCON_START will not have been set at startup.

diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/exynos_mct.c b/drivers/clocksource/exynos_mct.c
index 6db3d5511b0f..ed462e0a77ff 100644
--- a/drivers/clocksource/exynos_mct.c
+++ b/drivers/clocksource/exynos_mct.c
@@ -162,6 +162,9 @@ static void exynos4_mct_frc_start(void)
 	u32 reg;
 
 	reg = readl_relaxed(reg_base + EXYNOS4_MCT_G_TCON);
+	if (reg & MCT_G_TCON_START)
+		return;
+
 	reg |= MCT_G_TCON_START;
 	exynos4_mct_write(reg, EXYNOS4_MCT_G_TCON);
 }