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authorMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>2013-01-30 17:51:26 +0000
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2014-01-09 12:24:26 -0800
commit714c21cb90951905b269870087a99c37f3a7af0c (patch)
tree8f8ed0735431802c266bcfefabcb97477924f6a1 /arch
parentae5092fadd50cfd0d29e762771d30cbf7f2c2fec (diff)
clocksource: arch_timer: use virtual counters
commit 0d651e4e65e96989f72236bf83bd4c6e55eb6ce4 upstream. Switching between reading the virtual or physical counters is problematic, as some core code wants a view of time before we're fully set up. Using a function pointer and switching the source after the first read can make time appear to go backwards, and having a check in the read function is an unfortunate block on what we want to be a fast path. Instead, this patch makes us always use the virtual counters. If we're a guest, or don't have hyp mode, we'll use the virtual timers, and as such don't care about CNTVOFF as long as it doesn't change in such a way as to make time appear to travel backwards. As the guest will use the virtual timers, a (potential) KVM host must use the physical timers (which can wake up the host even if they fire while a guest is executing), and hence a host must have CNTVOFF set to zero so as to have a consistent view of time between the physical timers and virtual counters. 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> Cc: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/include/asm/arch_timer.h9
-rw-r--r--arch/arm64/include/asm/arch_timer.h10
2 files changed, 0 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/arch_timer.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/arch_timer.h
index 7c1bfc0aea0..accefe09918 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/arch_timer.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/arch_timer.h
@@ -80,15 +80,6 @@ static inline u32 arch_timer_get_cntfrq(void)
return val;
}
-static inline u64 arch_counter_get_cntpct(void)
-{
- u64 cval;
-
- isb();
- asm volatile("mrrc p15, 0, %Q0, %R0, c14" : "=r" (cval));
- return cval;
-}
-
static inline u64 arch_counter_get_cntvct(void)
{
u64 cval;
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/arch_timer.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/arch_timer.h
index bf6ab242f04..d56ed11ba9a 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/arch_timer.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/arch_timer.h
@@ -110,16 +110,6 @@ static inline void __cpuinit arch_counter_set_user_access(void)
asm volatile("msr cntkctl_el1, %0" : : "r" (cntkctl));
}
-static inline u64 arch_counter_get_cntpct(void)
-{
- u64 cval;
-
- isb();
- asm volatile("mrs %0, cntpct_el0" : "=r" (cval));
-
- return cval;
-}
-
static inline u64 arch_counter_get_cntvct(void)
{
u64 cval;