[PATCH v6 RESEND 4/5] drivers: clocksource: add support for ARM architected timer event stream

From: Sudeep KarkadaNagesha
Date: Wed Sep 18 2013 - 07:05:41 EST


From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>

The ARM architected timer can generate events (used for waking up
CPUs executing the wfe instruction) at a frequency represented as a
power-of-2 divisor of the clock rate.

An event stream might be used:
- To implement wfe-based timeouts for userspace locking implementations.
- To impose a timeout on a wfe for safeguarding against any programming
error in case an expected event is not generated.

This patch computes the event stream frequency aiming for a period
of 100us between events. It uses ARM/ARM64 specific backends to configure
and enable the event stream.

Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
[sudeep: moving ARM/ARM64 changes into separate patches
and adding Kconfig option]
Signed-off-by: Sudeep KarkadaNagesha <sudeep.karkadanagesha@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/clocksource/Kconfig | 15 +++++++++++++++
drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
include/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.h | 2 ++
3 files changed, 32 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/Kconfig b/drivers/clocksource/Kconfig
index 41c6946..559d803 100644
--- a/drivers/clocksource/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/clocksource/Kconfig
@@ -74,6 +74,21 @@ config ARM_ARCH_TIMER
bool
select CLKSRC_OF if OF

+config ARM_ARCH_TIMER_EVTSTREAM
+ bool "Support for ARM architected timer event stream generation"
+ default y if ARM_ARCH_TIMER
+ help
+ This option enables support for event stream generation based on
+ the ARM architected timer. It is used for waking up CPUs executing
+ the wfe instruction at a frequency represented as a power-of-2
+ divisor of the clock rate.
+ The main use of the event stream is wfe-based timeouts of userspace
+ locking implementations. It might also be useful for imposing timeout
+ on wfe to safeguard against any programming errors in case an expected
+ event is not generated.
+ This must be disabled for hardware validation purposes to detect any
+ hardware anomalies of missing events.
+
config ARM_GLOBAL_TIMER
bool
select CLKSRC_OF if OF
diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c b/drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c
index fbd9ccd..105f8ff 100644
--- a/drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c
+++ b/drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c
@@ -294,6 +294,19 @@ static void __arch_timer_setup(unsigned type,
clockevents_config_and_register(clk, arch_timer_rate, 0xf, 0x7fffffff);
}

+static void arch_timer_configure_evtstream(void)
+{
+ int evt_stream_div, pos;
+
+ /* Find the closest power of two to the divisor */
+ evt_stream_div = arch_timer_rate / ARCH_TIMER_EVT_STREAM_FREQ;
+ pos = fls(evt_stream_div);
+ if (pos > 1 && !(evt_stream_div & (1 << (pos - 2))))
+ pos--;
+ /* enable event stream */
+ arch_timer_evtstrm_enable(min(pos, 15));
+}
+
static int arch_timer_setup(struct clock_event_device *clk)
{
__arch_timer_setup(ARCH_CP15_TIMER, clk);
@@ -307,6 +320,8 @@ static int arch_timer_setup(struct clock_event_device *clk)
}

arch_counter_set_user_access();
+ if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARM_ARCH_TIMER_EVTSTREAM))
+ arch_timer_configure_evtstream();

return 0;
}
diff --git a/include/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.h b/include/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.h
index 8707dae..6d26b40 100644
--- a/include/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.h
+++ b/include/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.h
@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ enum arch_timer_reg {
#define ARCH_TIMER_USR_VT_ACCESS_EN (1 << 8) /* virtual timer registers */
#define ARCH_TIMER_USR_PT_ACCESS_EN (1 << 9) /* physical timer registers */

+#define ARCH_TIMER_EVT_STREAM_FREQ 10000 /* 100us */
+
#ifdef CONFIG_ARM_ARCH_TIMER

extern u32 arch_timer_get_rate(void);
--
1.8.1.2

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