drivers: clocksource: add support for ARM architected timer event stream

wildea01 · Sudeep KarkadaNagesha · commit 037f637767a8 · 2013-09-26T09:48:00.000+01:00
The ARM architected timer can generate events (used for waking up
CPUs executing the wfe instruction) at a frequency represented as a
power-of-2 divisor of the clock rate.

An event stream might be used:
- To implement wfe-based timeouts for userspace locking implementations.
- To impose a timeout on a wfe for safeguarding against any programming
  error in case an expected event is not generated.

This patch computes the event stream frequency aiming for a period
of 100us between events. It uses ARM/ARM64 specific backends to configure
and enable the event stream.

Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi &lt;lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Olof Johansson &lt;olof@lixom.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
[sudeep: moving ARM/ARM64 changes into separate patches
         and adding Kconfig option]
Signed-off-by: Sudeep KarkadaNagesha &lt;sudeep.karkadanagesha@arm.com&gt;
diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/Kconfig b/drivers/clocksource/Kconfig
@@ -74,6 +74,21 @@ config ARM_ARCH_TIMER
 	bool
 	select CLKSRC_OF if OF
 
+config ARM_ARCH_TIMER_EVTSTREAM
+	bool "Support for ARM architected timer event stream generation"
+	default y if ARM_ARCH_TIMER
+	help
+	  This option enables support for event stream generation based on
+	  the ARM architected timer. It is used for waking up CPUs executing
+	  the wfe instruction at a frequency represented as a power-of-2
+	  divisor of the clock rate.
+	  The main use of the event stream is wfe-based timeouts of userspace
+	  locking implementations. It might also be useful for imposing timeout
+	  on wfe to safeguard against any programming errors in case an expected
+	  event is not generated.
+	  This must be disabled for hardware validation purposes to detect any
+	  hardware anomalies of missing events.
+
 config ARM_GLOBAL_TIMER
 	bool
 	select CLKSRC_OF if OF
diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c b/drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c
@@ -294,6 +294,19 @@ static void __arch_timer_setup(unsigned type,
 	clockevents_config_and_register(clk, arch_timer_rate, 0xf, 0x7fffffff);
 }
 
+static void arch_timer_configure_evtstream(void)
+{
+	int evt_stream_div, pos;
+
+	/* Find the closest power of two to the divisor */
+	evt_stream_div = arch_timer_rate / ARCH_TIMER_EVT_STREAM_FREQ;
+	pos = fls(evt_stream_div);
+	if (pos > 1 && !(evt_stream_div & (1 << (pos - 2))))
+		pos--;
+	/* enable event stream */
+	arch_timer_evtstrm_enable(min(pos, 15));
+}
+
 static int arch_timer_setup(struct clock_event_device *clk)
 {
 	__arch_timer_setup(ARCH_CP15_TIMER, clk);
@@ -307,6 +320,8 @@ static int arch_timer_setup(struct clock_event_device *clk)
 	}
 
 	arch_counter_set_user_access();
+	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARM_ARCH_TIMER_EVTSTREAM))
+		arch_timer_configure_evtstream();
 
 	return 0;
 }
diff --git a/include/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.h b/include/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.h
@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ enum arch_timer_reg {
 #define ARCH_TIMER_USR_VT_ACCESS_EN	(1 << 8) /* virtual timer registers */
 #define ARCH_TIMER_USR_PT_ACCESS_EN	(1 << 9) /* physical timer registers */
 
+#define ARCH_TIMER_EVT_STREAM_FREQ	10000	/* 100us */
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_ARM_ARCH_TIMER
 
 extern u32 arch_timer_get_rate(void);
