Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Add HiSilicon system timer driver

[Mark Rutland]

Hi,

On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 08:30:30PM +0800, Yicong Yang wrote:
> From: Yicong Yang <yangyicong@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> HiSilicon system timer is a memory mapped platform timer compatible with
> the arm's generic timer specification. The timer supports both SPI and
> LPI interrupt and can be enumerated through ACPI DSDT table. Since the
> timer is fully compatible with the spec, it can reuse most codes of the
> arm_arch_timer driver. However since the arm_arch_timer driver only
> supports GTDT and SPI interrupt, this series support the HiSilicon system
> timer by:
> 
> - refactor some of the arm_arch_timer codes and export the function to
>   register a arch memory timer by other drivers
> - retrieve the IO memory and interrupt resource through DSDT in a separate
>   driver, then setup and register the clockevent device reuse the arm_arch_timer
>   function
> 
> Using LPI for the timer is mentioned in BSA Spec section 3.8.1 (DEN0094C 1.0C).

This seems like an oversight; there *should* be a generic way of describing
this, and I've poked our BSA and ACPI architects to figure out how this is
supposed to work. The lack of a way to do that seems like a major oversight and
something that needs to be solved.

I'll try to get back to you shortly on that.

Regardless of that, I do not think this should be a separate driver, and I'm
very much not keen on having vendor-specific companion drivers like this. Using
LPIs isn't specific to HiSilicon, and this should be entirely common (and if we
need a DSDT device, should use a common HID too).

Thanks,
Mark.

> 
> Yicong Yang (3):
>   clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Split the function of
>     __arch_timer_setup()
>   clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Extend and export
>     arch_timer_mem_register()
>   clocksource/drivers: Add HiSilicon system timer driver
> 
>  drivers/clocksource/Kconfig          |  10 +++
>  drivers/clocksource/Makefile         |   1 +
>  drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c | 123 +++++++++++++++------------
>  drivers/clocksource/timer-hisi-sys.c |  68 +++++++++++++++
>  include/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.h |   2 +
>  5 files changed, 148 insertions(+), 56 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/clocksource/timer-hisi-sys.c
> 
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