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<entry>
<title>clocksource/drivers/arch_timer: Workaround for Allwinner A64 timer instability</title>
<updated>2019-03-23T19:11:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Samuel Holland</name>
<email>samuel@sholland.org</email>
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<published>2019-01-13T02:17:18+00:00</published>
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commit c950ca8c35eeb32224a63adc47e12f9e226da241 upstream.

The Allwinner A64 SoC is known[1] to have an unstable architectural
timer, which manifests itself most obviously in the time jumping forward
a multiple of 95 years[2][3]. This coincides with 2^56 cycles at a
timer frequency of 24 MHz, implying that the time went slightly backward
(and this was interpreted by the kernel as it jumping forward and
wrapping around past the epoch).

Investigation revealed instability in the low bits of CNTVCT at the
point a high bit rolls over. This leads to power-of-two cycle forward
and backward jumps. (Testing shows that forward jumps are about twice as
likely as backward jumps.) Since the counter value returns to normal
after an indeterminate read, each "jump" really consists of both a
forward and backward jump from the software perspective.

Unless the kernel is trapping CNTVCT reads, a userspace program is able
to read the register in a loop faster than it changes. A test program
running on all 4 CPU cores that reported jumps larger than 100 ms was
run for 13.6 hours and reported the following:

 Count | Event
-------+---------------------------
  9940 | jumped backward      699ms
   268 | jumped backward     1398ms
     1 | jumped backward     2097ms
 16020 | jumped forward       175ms
  6443 | jumped forward       699ms
  2976 | jumped forward      1398ms
     9 | jumped forward    356516ms
     9 | jumped forward    357215ms
     4 | jumped forward    714430ms
     1 | jumped forward   3578440ms

This works out to a jump larger than 100 ms about every 5.5 seconds on
each CPU core.

The largest jump (almost an hour!) was the following sequence of reads:
    0x0000007fffffffff → 0x00000093feffffff → 0x0000008000000000

Note that the middle bits don't necessarily all read as all zeroes or
all ones during the anomalous behavior; however the low 10 bits checked
by the function in this patch have never been observed with any other
value.

Also note that smaller jumps are much more common, with backward jumps
of 2048 (2^11) cycles observed over 400 times per second on each core.
(Of course, this is partially explained by lower bits rolling over more
frequently.) Any one of these could have caused the 95 year time skip.

Similar anomalies were observed while reading CNTPCT (after patching the
kernel to allow reads from userspace). However, the CNTPCT jumps are
much less frequent, and only small jumps were observed. The same program
as before (except now reading CNTPCT) observed after 72 hours:

 Count | Event
-------+---------------------------
    17 | jumped backward      699ms
    52 | jumped forward       175ms
  2831 | jumped forward       699ms
     5 | jumped forward      1398ms

Further investigation showed that the instability in CNTPCT/CNTVCT also
affected the respective timer's TVAL register. The following values were
observed immediately after writing CNVT_TVAL to 0x10000000:

 CNTVCT             | CNTV_TVAL  | CNTV_CVAL          | CNTV_TVAL Error
--------------------+------------+--------------------+-----------------
 0x000000d4a2d8bfff | 0x10003fff | 0x000000d4b2d8bfff | +0x00004000
 0x000000d4a2d94000 | 0x0fffffff | 0x000000d4b2d97fff | -0x00004000
 0x000000d4a2d97fff | 0x10003fff | 0x000000d4b2d97fff | +0x00004000
 0x000000d4a2d9c000 | 0x0fffffff | 0x000000d4b2d9ffff | -0x00004000

The pattern of errors in CNTV_TVAL seemed to depend on exactly which
value was written to it. For example, after writing 0x10101010:

 CNTVCT             | CNTV_TVAL  | CNTV_CVAL          | CNTV_TVAL Error
--------------------+------------+--------------------+-----------------
 0x000001ac3effffff | 0x1110100f | 0x000001ac4f10100f | +0x1000000
 0x000001ac40000000 | 0x1010100f | 0x000001ac5110100f | -0x1000000
 0x000001ac58ffffff | 0x1110100f | 0x000001ac6910100f | +0x1000000
 0x000001ac66000000 | 0x1010100f | 0x000001ac7710100f | -0x1000000
 0x000001ac6affffff | 0x1110100f | 0x000001ac7b10100f | +0x1000000
 0x000001ac6e000000 | 0x1010100f | 0x000001ac7f10100f | -0x1000000

I was also twice able to reproduce the issue covered by Allwinner's
workaround[4], that writing to TVAL sometimes fails, and both CVAL and
TVAL are left with entirely bogus values. One was the following values:

 CNTVCT             | CNTV_TVAL  | CNTV_CVAL
--------------------+------------+--------------------------------------
 0x000000d4a2d6014c | 0x8fbd5721 | 0x000000d132935fff (615s in the past)
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;

========================================================================

Because the CPU can read the CNTPCT/CNTVCT registers faster than they
change, performing two reads of the register and comparing the high bits
(like other workarounds) is not a workable solution. And because the
timer can jump both forward and backward, no pair of reads can
distinguish a good value from a bad one. The only way to guarantee a
good value from consecutive reads would be to read _three_ times, and
take the middle value only if the three values are 1) each unique and
2) increasing. This takes at minimum 3 counter cycles (125 ns), or more
if an anomaly is detected.

However, since there is a distinct pattern to the bad values, we can
optimize the common case (1022/1024 of the time) to a single read by
simply ignoring values that match the error pattern. This still takes no
more than 3 cycles in the worst case, and requires much less code. As an
additional safety check, we still limit the loop iteration to the number
of max-frequency (1.2 GHz) CPU cycles in three 24 MHz counter periods.

For the TVAL registers, the simple solution is to not use them. Instead,
read or write the CVAL and calculate the TVAL value in software.

Although the manufacturer is aware of at least part of the erratum[4],
there is no official name for it. For now, use the kernel-internal name
"UNKNOWN1".

[1]: https://github.com/armbian/build/commit/a08cd6fe7ae9
[2]: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/3458-a64-datetime-clock-issue/
[3]: https://irclog.whitequark.org/linux-sunxi/2018-01-26
[4]: https://github.com/Allwinner-Homlet/H6-BSP4.9-linux/blob/master/drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c#L272

Acked-by: Maxime Ripard &lt;maxime.ripard@bootlin.com&gt;
Tested-by: Andre Przywara &lt;andre.przywara@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Samuel Holland &lt;samuel@sholland.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit c950ca8c35eeb32224a63adc47e12f9e226da241 upstream.

The Allwinner A64 SoC is known[1] to have an unstable architectural
timer, which manifests itself most obviously in the time jumping forward
a multiple of 95 years[2][3]. This coincides with 2^56 cycles at a
timer frequency of 24 MHz, implying that the time went slightly backward
(and this was interpreted by the kernel as it jumping forward and
wrapping around past the epoch).

Investigation revealed instability in the low bits of CNTVCT at the
point a high bit rolls over. This leads to power-of-two cycle forward
and backward jumps. (Testing shows that forward jumps are about twice as
likely as backward jumps.) Since the counter value returns to normal
after an indeterminate read, each "jump" really consists of both a
forward and backward jump from the software perspective.

Unless the kernel is trapping CNTVCT reads, a userspace program is able
to read the register in a loop faster than it changes. A test program
running on all 4 CPU cores that reported jumps larger than 100 ms was
run for 13.6 hours and reported the following:

 Count | Event
-------+---------------------------
  9940 | jumped backward      699ms
   268 | jumped backward     1398ms
     1 | jumped backward     2097ms
 16020 | jumped forward       175ms
  6443 | jumped forward       699ms
  2976 | jumped forward      1398ms
     9 | jumped forward    356516ms
     9 | jumped forward    357215ms
     4 | jumped forward    714430ms
     1 | jumped forward   3578440ms

This works out to a jump larger than 100 ms about every 5.5 seconds on
each CPU core.

The largest jump (almost an hour!) was the following sequence of reads:
    0x0000007fffffffff → 0x00000093feffffff → 0x0000008000000000

Note that the middle bits don't necessarily all read as all zeroes or
all ones during the anomalous behavior; however the low 10 bits checked
by the function in this patch have never been observed with any other
value.

Also note that smaller jumps are much more common, with backward jumps
of 2048 (2^11) cycles observed over 400 times per second on each core.
(Of course, this is partially explained by lower bits rolling over more
frequently.) Any one of these could have caused the 95 year time skip.

Similar anomalies were observed while reading CNTPCT (after patching the
kernel to allow reads from userspace). However, the CNTPCT jumps are
much less frequent, and only small jumps were observed. The same program
as before (except now reading CNTPCT) observed after 72 hours:

 Count | Event
-------+---------------------------
    17 | jumped backward      699ms
    52 | jumped forward       175ms
  2831 | jumped forward       699ms
     5 | jumped forward      1398ms

Further investigation showed that the instability in CNTPCT/CNTVCT also
affected the respective timer's TVAL register. The following values were
observed immediately after writing CNVT_TVAL to 0x10000000:

 CNTVCT             | CNTV_TVAL  | CNTV_CVAL          | CNTV_TVAL Error
--------------------+------------+--------------------+-----------------
 0x000000d4a2d8bfff | 0x10003fff | 0x000000d4b2d8bfff | +0x00004000
 0x000000d4a2d94000 | 0x0fffffff | 0x000000d4b2d97fff | -0x00004000
 0x000000d4a2d97fff | 0x10003fff | 0x000000d4b2d97fff | +0x00004000
 0x000000d4a2d9c000 | 0x0fffffff | 0x000000d4b2d9ffff | -0x00004000

The pattern of errors in CNTV_TVAL seemed to depend on exactly which
value was written to it. For example, after writing 0x10101010:

 CNTVCT             | CNTV_TVAL  | CNTV_CVAL          | CNTV_TVAL Error
--------------------+------------+--------------------+-----------------
 0x000001ac3effffff | 0x1110100f | 0x000001ac4f10100f | +0x1000000
 0x000001ac40000000 | 0x1010100f | 0x000001ac5110100f | -0x1000000
 0x000001ac58ffffff | 0x1110100f | 0x000001ac6910100f | +0x1000000
 0x000001ac66000000 | 0x1010100f | 0x000001ac7710100f | -0x1000000
 0x000001ac6affffff | 0x1110100f | 0x000001ac7b10100f | +0x1000000
 0x000001ac6e000000 | 0x1010100f | 0x000001ac7f10100f | -0x1000000

I was also twice able to reproduce the issue covered by Allwinner's
workaround[4], that writing to TVAL sometimes fails, and both CVAL and
TVAL are left with entirely bogus values. One was the following values:

 CNTVCT             | CNTV_TVAL  | CNTV_CVAL
--------------------+------------+--------------------------------------
 0x000000d4a2d6014c | 0x8fbd5721 | 0x000000d132935fff (615s in the past)
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;

========================================================================

Because the CPU can read the CNTPCT/CNTVCT registers faster than they
change, performing two reads of the register and comparing the high bits
(like other workarounds) is not a workable solution. And because the
timer can jump both forward and backward, no pair of reads can
distinguish a good value from a bad one. The only way to guarantee a
good value from consecutive reads would be to read _three_ times, and
take the middle value only if the three values are 1) each unique and
2) increasing. This takes at minimum 3 counter cycles (125 ns), or more
if an anomaly is detected.

However, since there is a distinct pattern to the bad values, we can
optimize the common case (1022/1024 of the time) to a single read by
simply ignoring values that match the error pattern. This still takes no
more than 3 cycles in the worst case, and requires much less code. As an
additional safety check, we still limit the loop iteration to the number
of max-frequency (1.2 GHz) CPU cycles in three 24 MHz counter periods.

For the TVAL registers, the simple solution is to not use them. Instead,
read or write the CVAL and calculate the TVAL value in software.

Although the manufacturer is aware of at least part of the erratum[4],
there is no official name for it. For now, use the kernel-internal name
"UNKNOWN1".

[1]: https://github.com/armbian/build/commit/a08cd6fe7ae9
[2]: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/3458-a64-datetime-clock-issue/
[3]: https://irclog.whitequark.org/linux-sunxi/2018-01-26
[4]: https://github.com/Allwinner-Homlet/H6-BSP4.9-linux/blob/master/drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c#L272

Acked-by: Maxime Ripard &lt;maxime.ripard@bootlin.com&gt;
Tested-by: Andre Przywara &lt;andre.przywara@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Samuel Holland &lt;samuel@sholland.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>clocksource/drivers/rda: Add clock driver for RDA8810PL SoC</title>
<updated>2018-12-18T21:22:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Manivannan Sadhasivam</name>
<email>manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-10T17:35:46+00:00</published>
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<id>7f83a1327962b9b3712866db8cbafbdee239cce4</id>
<content type='text'>
Add clock driver for RDA Micro RDA8810PL SoC supporting OSTIMER
and HWTIMER.

RDA8810PL has two independent timers: OSTIMER (56 bit) and HWTIMER
(64 bit). Each timer provides optional interrupt support. In this
driver, OSTIMER is used for clockevents and HWTIMER is used for
clocksource.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Färber &lt;afaerber@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Manivannan Sadhasivam &lt;manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
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Add clock driver for RDA Micro RDA8810PL SoC supporting OSTIMER
and HWTIMER.

RDA8810PL has two independent timers: OSTIMER (56 bit) and HWTIMER
(64 bit). Each timer provides optional interrupt support. In this
driver, OSTIMER is used for clockevents and HWTIMER is used for
clocksource.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Färber &lt;afaerber@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Manivannan Sadhasivam &lt;manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>clocksource/drivers/riscv_timer: Provide the sched_clock</title>
<updated>2018-12-18T21:22:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anup Patel</name>
<email>anup@brainfault.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-04T10:29:52+00:00</published>
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Currently, we don't have a sched_clock registered for RISC-V systems.
This means Linux time keeping will use jiffies (running at HZ) as the
default sched_clock.

To avoid this, we explicity provide sched_clock using RISC-V rdtime
instruction (similar to riscv_timer clocksource).

Signed-off-by: Anup Patel &lt;anup@brainfault.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@sifive.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
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Currently, we don't have a sched_clock registered for RISC-V systems.
This means Linux time keeping will use jiffies (running at HZ) as the
default sched_clock.

To avoid this, we explicity provide sched_clock using RISC-V rdtime
instruction (similar to riscv_timer clocksource).

Signed-off-by: Anup Patel &lt;anup@brainfault.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@sifive.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>clocksource/drivers/arc_timer: Utilize generic sched_clock</title>
<updated>2018-12-18T21:22:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Brodkin</name>
<email>alexey.brodkin@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-19T11:29:17+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=bf287607c80f24387fedb431a346dc67f25be12c'/>
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It turned out we used to use default implementation of sched_clock()
from kernel/sched/clock.c which was as precise as 1/HZ, i.e.
by default we had 10 msec granularity of time measurement.

Now given ARC built-in timers are clocked with the same frequency as
CPU cores we may get much higher precision of time tracking.

Thus we switch to generic sched_clock which really reads ARC hardware
counters.

This is especially helpful for measuring short events.
That's what we used to have:
------------------------------&gt;8------------------------
$ perf stat /bin/sh -c /root/lmbench-master/bin/arc/hello &gt; /dev/null

 Performance counter stats for '/bin/sh -c /root/lmbench-master/bin/arc/hello':

         10.000000      task-clock (msec)         #    2.832 CPUs utilized
                 1      context-switches          #    0.100 K/sec
                 1      cpu-migrations            #    0.100 K/sec
                63      page-faults               #    0.006 M/sec
           3049480      cycles                    #    0.305 GHz
           1091259      instructions              #    0.36  insn per cycle
            256828      branches                  #   25.683 M/sec
             27026      branch-misses             #   10.52% of all branches

       0.003530687 seconds time elapsed

       0.000000000 seconds user
       0.010000000 seconds sys
------------------------------&gt;8------------------------

And now we'll see:
------------------------------&gt;8------------------------
$ perf stat /bin/sh -c /root/lmbench-master/bin/arc/hello &gt; /dev/null

 Performance counter stats for '/bin/sh -c /root/lmbench-master/bin/arc/hello':

          3.004322      task-clock (msec)         #    0.865 CPUs utilized
                 1      context-switches          #    0.333 K/sec
                 1      cpu-migrations            #    0.333 K/sec
                63      page-faults               #    0.021 M/sec
           2986734      cycles                    #    0.994 GHz
           1087466      instructions              #    0.36  insn per cycle
            255209      branches                  #   84.947 M/sec
             26002      branch-misses             #   10.19% of all branches

       0.003474829 seconds time elapsed

       0.003519000 seconds user
       0.000000000 seconds sys
------------------------------&gt;8------------------------

Note how much more meaningful is the second output - time spent for
execution pretty much matches number of cycles spent (we're runnign
@ 1GHz here).

Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin &lt;abrodkin@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
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<pre>
It turned out we used to use default implementation of sched_clock()
from kernel/sched/clock.c which was as precise as 1/HZ, i.e.
by default we had 10 msec granularity of time measurement.

Now given ARC built-in timers are clocked with the same frequency as
CPU cores we may get much higher precision of time tracking.

Thus we switch to generic sched_clock which really reads ARC hardware
counters.

This is especially helpful for measuring short events.
That's what we used to have:
------------------------------&gt;8------------------------
$ perf stat /bin/sh -c /root/lmbench-master/bin/arc/hello &gt; /dev/null

 Performance counter stats for '/bin/sh -c /root/lmbench-master/bin/arc/hello':

         10.000000      task-clock (msec)         #    2.832 CPUs utilized
                 1      context-switches          #    0.100 K/sec
                 1      cpu-migrations            #    0.100 K/sec
                63      page-faults               #    0.006 M/sec
           3049480      cycles                    #    0.305 GHz
           1091259      instructions              #    0.36  insn per cycle
            256828      branches                  #   25.683 M/sec
             27026      branch-misses             #   10.52% of all branches

       0.003530687 seconds time elapsed

       0.000000000 seconds user
       0.010000000 seconds sys
------------------------------&gt;8------------------------

And now we'll see:
------------------------------&gt;8------------------------
$ perf stat /bin/sh -c /root/lmbench-master/bin/arc/hello &gt; /dev/null

 Performance counter stats for '/bin/sh -c /root/lmbench-master/bin/arc/hello':

          3.004322      task-clock (msec)         #    0.865 CPUs utilized
                 1      context-switches          #    0.333 K/sec
                 1      cpu-migrations            #    0.333 K/sec
                63      page-faults               #    0.021 M/sec
           2986734      cycles                    #    0.994 GHz
           1087466      instructions              #    0.36  insn per cycle
            255209      branches                  #   84.947 M/sec
             26002      branch-misses             #   10.19% of all branches

       0.003474829 seconds time elapsed

       0.003519000 seconds user
       0.000000000 seconds sys
------------------------------&gt;8------------------------

Note how much more meaningful is the second output - time spent for
execution pretty much matches number of cycles spent (we're runnign
@ 1GHz here).

Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin &lt;abrodkin@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>clocksource/drivers/imx-gpt: Add support for ARM64</title>
<updated>2018-12-18T21:22:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anson Huang</name>
<email>anson.huang@nxp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-05T01:10:27+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
This patch allows building and compile-testing the i.MX GPT driver
also for ARM64. The delay_timer is only supported on ARMv7.

Signed-off-by: Anson Huang &lt;Anson.Huang@nxp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
This patch allows building and compile-testing the i.MX GPT driver
also for ARM64. The delay_timer is only supported on ARMv7.

Signed-off-by: Anson Huang &lt;Anson.Huang@nxp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>clocksource/drivers/ux500: Drop Ux500 custom SCHED_CLOCK</title>
<updated>2018-12-18T21:22:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Walleij</name>
<email>linus.walleij@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-15T13:32:03+00:00</published>
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The two drivers used for Ux500 sched_clock use two Kconfig
symbols to select which of the two gets used as sched_clock.

This isn't right: the workaround is trying to make sure that
the NONSTOP timer is used for sched_clock in order to keep
that clock ticking consistently over a suspend/resume
cycle. (Otherwise sched_clock simply stops during suspend
and continues after resume).

This will notably affect any timetstamped debug prints,
so that they show the absolute number of seconds since the
system was booted and does not loose wall-clock time during
suspend and resume as if time stood still.

The real way to fix this problem is to make sched_clock
take advantage of any NONSTOP clock source on the system
and adjust accordingly, not to try to work around this by
using a different sched_clock depending on what system
we are compiling for. This can solve the problem for
everyone instead of providing a local solution.

Cc: Baolin Wang &lt;baolin.wang@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
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The two drivers used for Ux500 sched_clock use two Kconfig
symbols to select which of the two gets used as sched_clock.

This isn't right: the workaround is trying to make sure that
the NONSTOP timer is used for sched_clock in order to keep
that clock ticking consistently over a suspend/resume
cycle. (Otherwise sched_clock simply stops during suspend
and continues after resume).

This will notably affect any timetstamped debug prints,
so that they show the absolute number of seconds since the
system was booted and does not loose wall-clock time during
suspend and resume as if time stood still.

The real way to fix this problem is to make sched_clock
take advantage of any NONSTOP clock source on the system
and adjust accordingly, not to try to work around this by
using a different sched_clock depending on what system
we are compiling for. This can solve the problem for
everyone instead of providing a local solution.

Cc: Baolin Wang &lt;baolin.wang@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>clocksource/drivers/c-sky: Add gx6605s SOC system timer</title>
<updated>2018-11-02T18:41:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Guo Ren</name>
<email>ren_guo@c-sky.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-02T16:51:30+00:00</published>
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The driver is for gx6605s SOC system timer and there are two
same timers in gx6605s. We use one for clkevt and another one for
clksrc.

The timer is mmio map to access, so we need give mmio address in dts.

The counter at 0x0  offset is clock event.
The counter at 0x40 offset is clock source.

Signed-off-by: Guo Ren &lt;ren_guo@c-sky.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
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The driver is for gx6605s SOC system timer and there are two
same timers in gx6605s. We use one for clkevt and another one for
clksrc.

The timer is mmio map to access, so we need give mmio address in dts.

The counter at 0x0  offset is clock event.
The counter at 0x40 offset is clock source.

Signed-off-by: Guo Ren &lt;ren_guo@c-sky.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>clocksource/drivers/c-sky: Add C-SKY SMP timer</title>
<updated>2018-11-02T18:39:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Guo Ren</name>
<email>ren_guo@c-sky.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-02T16:51:28+00:00</published>
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The driver is for C-SKY SMP timer. It only supports oneshot event
and 32bit overflow for clocksource. Per cpu core has one timer and
all timers share one clock-counter-input from the same clocksource.

This use mfcr&amp;mtcr instructions to access the regs.

Signed-off-by: Guo Ren &lt;ren_guo@c-sky.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
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The driver is for C-SKY SMP timer. It only supports oneshot event
and 32bit overflow for clocksource. Per cpu core has one timer and
all timers share one clock-counter-input from the same clocksource.

This use mfcr&amp;mtcr instructions to access the regs.

Signed-off-by: Guo Ren &lt;ren_guo@c-sky.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>clocksource: new RISC-V SBI timer driver</title>
<updated>2018-08-13T15:31:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Palmer Dabbelt</name>
<email>palmer@dabbelt.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-04T08:23:19+00:00</published>
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The RISC-V ISA defines a per-hart real-time clock and timer, which is
present on all systems.  The clock is accessed via the 'rdtime'
pseudo-instruction (which reads a CSR), and the timer is set via an SBI
call.

Contains various improvements from Atish Patra &lt;atish.patra@wdc.com&gt;.

Signed-off-by: Dmitriy Cherkasov &lt;dmitriy@oss-tech.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
[hch: remove dead code, add SPDX tags, used riscv_of_processor_hart(),
 minor cleanups, merged  hotplug cpu support and other improvements
 from Atish]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Atish Patra &lt;atish.patra@wdc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@sifive.com&gt;
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The RISC-V ISA defines a per-hart real-time clock and timer, which is
present on all systems.  The clock is accessed via the 'rdtime'
pseudo-instruction (which reads a CSR), and the timer is set via an SBI
call.

Contains various improvements from Atish Patra &lt;atish.patra@wdc.com&gt;.

Signed-off-by: Dmitriy Cherkasov &lt;dmitriy@oss-tech.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
[hch: remove dead code, add SPDX tags, used riscv_of_processor_hart(),
 minor cleanups, merged  hotplug cpu support and other improvements
 from Atish]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Atish Patra &lt;atish.patra@wdc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@sifive.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>clocksource/drivers/sprd: Fix Kconfig dependency</title>
<updated>2018-05-18T20:53:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chunyan Zhang</name>
<email>chunyan.zhang@spreadtrum.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-07T09:04:47+00:00</published>
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SPRD arch doesn't select SPRD_TIMER, so this config would not
appear even if ARCH_SPRD is set but COMPILE_TEST not.

Fix the dependency of this config with SPRD arch, and set a
default value for it, also leave other choices for EXPERT.

Signed-off-by: Chunyan Zhang &lt;chunyan.zhang@spreadtrum.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
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SPRD arch doesn't select SPRD_TIMER, so this config would not
appear even if ARCH_SPRD is set but COMPILE_TEST not.

Fix the dependency of this config with SPRD arch, and set a
default value for it, also leave other choices for EXPERT.

Signed-off-by: Chunyan Zhang &lt;chunyan.zhang@spreadtrum.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
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