Re: [PATCH] ARM: mstar: Select HAVE_ARM_ARCH_TIMER

[Romain Perier]

Hi all,

Interesting, when I wrote the patch for msc313e-timer, I always had
ARCH_ARM_TIMER implicitly built, so I thought that it was implicitly
selected by MULTI_V7...
I agree that we should at least have ARM_ARCH_TIMER enabled, otherwise
we won't being able to boot correctly (no clockevents)

I have also noticed that we missed this commit
https://github.com/linux-chenxing/linux/commit/4cf42fcb4618cd77d80f767d5524c32fb40a91c6
 (that selects MSC313E_TIMER), which might explain your initial issue
(not being to boot).

MSC313E_TIMER being optional on ARM (because of ARM_ARCH_TIMER), we
should be sure that arm_timer is enabled and we can keep the mstar
timer optional, imho.

What do you think ?

Romain

Le mar. 1 mars 2022 à 11:44, Daniel Palmer <daniel@xxxxxxxx> a écrit :
>
> The mstar SoCs have an arch timer but HAVE_ARM_ARCH_TIMER wasn't
> selected. If MSC313E_TIMER isn't selected then the kernel gets
> stuck at boot because there are no timers available.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Palmer <daniel@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> I moved one of my CI builds from a 5.16 based tree to a 5.17
> based one and it stopped booting. At some point I had broken my DTB
> so the MStar timer wasn't getting probed anymore and at
> the same time the arch timer driver wasn't getting built in.
> I'm not entirely sure why the arch timer driver was built
> before but isn't now. Anyhow, all of the other ARMv7 machines
> seem to do this so I guess it's right.
>
> Arnd/Olof, please apply directly if acceptable. Maybe this should
> be in 5.17 as a fix?
>
>  arch/arm/mach-mstar/Kconfig | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-mstar/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mach-mstar/Kconfig
> index cd300eeedc20..0bf4d312bcfd 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mach-mstar/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-mstar/Kconfig
> @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ menuconfig ARCH_MSTARV7
>         depends on ARCH_MULTI_V7
>         select ARM_GIC
>         select ARM_HEAVY_MB
> +       select HAVE_ARM_ARCH_TIMER
>         select MST_IRQ
>         select MSTAR_MSC313_MPLL
>         help
> --
> 2.35.1
>