Some 32-bit (ARMv7) systems are architected like this:
* The firmware doesn't know and doesn't care about hypervisor mode and
we don't want to add the complexity of hypervisor there.
* The firmware isn't involved in SMP bringup or resume.
* The ARCH timer come up with an uninitialized offset (CNTVOFF)
between the virtual and physical counters. Each core gets a
different random offset.
* The device boots in "Secure SVC" mode.
* Nothing has touched the reset value of CNTHCTL.PL1PCEN or
CNTHCTL.PL1PCTEN (both default to 1 at reset)
On systems like the above, it doesn't make sense to use the virtual
counter. There's nobody managing the offset and each time a core goes
down and comes back up it will get reinitialized to some other random
value.
This adds an optional property which can inform the kernel of this
situation, and firmware is free to remove the property if it is going
to initialize the CNTVOFF registers when each CPU comes out of reset.
Currently, the best course of action in this case is to use the
physical timer, which is why it is important that CNTHCTL hasn't been
changed from its reset value and it's a reasonable assumption given
that the firmware has never entered HYP mode.
Note that it's been said that on ARMv8 systems the firmware and
kernel really can't be architected as described above. That means
using the physical timer like this really only makes sense for ARMv7
systems.
Signed-off-by: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
ARM arch timers are tightly coupled with the CPU logic and lose context
on platform implementing HW power management when cores are powered
down at run-time. Marking the arch timers as C3STOP regardless of power
management capabilities causes issues on platforms with no power management,
since in that case the arch timers cannot possibly enter states where the
timer loses context at runtime and therefore can always be used as a high
resolution clockevent device.
In order to fix the C3STOP issue in a way compliant with how real HW
works, this patch adds a boolean property to the arch timer bindings
to define if the arch timer is managed by an always-on power domain.
This power domain is present on all ARM platforms to date, and manages
HW that must not be turned off, whatever the state of other HW
components (eg power controller). On platforms with no power management
capabilities, it is the only power domain present, which encompasses
and manages power supply for all HW components in the system.
If the timer is powered by the always-on power domain, the always-on
property must be present in the bindings which means that the timer cannot
be shutdown at runtime, so it is not a C3STOP clockevent device.
If the timer binding does not contain the always-on property, the timer is
assumed to be power-gateable, hence it must be defined as a C3STOP
clockevent device.
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Cc: Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se>
Cc: Marc Carino <marc.ceeeee@gmail.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Add a binding for the arm architected timer hardware's memory
mapped interface. The mmio timer hardware is made up of one base
frame and a collection of up to 8 timer frames, where each of the
8 timer frames can have either one or two views. A frame
typically maps to a privilege level (user/kernel, hypervisor,
secure). The first view has full access to the registers within a
frame, while the second view can be restricted to particular
registers within a frame. Each frame must support a physical
timer. It's optional for a frame to support a virtual timer.
Cc: devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Marc Zyngier <Marc.Zyngier@arm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Rob Herring <robherring2@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Currently the documentation for the arch_timer devicetree binding only
lists "arm,armv7-timer".
Add "arm,armv8-timer" to the list of compatible strings.
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Add runtime DT support and documentation for the Cortex A7/A15
architected timers.
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
