ARM: convert arm/arm64 arch timer to use CLKSRC_OF init

On 03/21/2013 06:06 AM, Mark Rutland wrote:
> Hi Rob,
> 
> (adding Marc to Cc as he may have comments).
> 
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 10:34:35PM +0000, Rob Herring wrote:
>> From: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
>>
>> This converts arm and arm64 to use CLKSRC_OF DT based initialization for
>> the arch timer. A new function arch_timer_arch_init is added to allow for
>> arch specific setup.
>>
>> This has a side effect of enabling sched_clock on omap5 and exynos5. There
>> should not be any reason not to use the arch timers for sched_clock.
> 
> Nice! I was just about to post a (slightly updated) version of Thomas Abraham's
> arch_timer clocksource_of_init patch, but this seems much more comprehensive.
> 
> I have some other arch_timer patches which may clash, but they could be rebased
> atop of this.

[snip]

>> @@ -446,10 +446,7 @@ static void __init v2m_dt_timer_init(void)
>>                                 irq_of_parse_and_map(node, 0));
>>         }
>>
>> -       arch_timer_of_register();
>> -
>> -       if (arch_timer_sched_clock_init() != 0)
>> -               versatile_sched_clock_init(vexpress_get_24mhz_clock_base(),
>> +       versatile_sched_clock_init(vexpress_get_24mhz_clock_base(),
>>                                 24000000);
>>  }
>>
> 
> On TC2 this series leads to using the vexpress 24MHz clock as the sched clock
> in preference to the architected timer:
> 
>   Architected local timer running at 24.00MHz (virt).
>   Switching to timer-based delay loop
>   Registered arch_counter_get_cntvct+0x0/0x14 as sched_clock source
>   sched_clock: 32 bits at 24MHz, resolution 41ns, wraps every 178956ms
>   Registered versatile_read_sched_clock+0x0/0x28 as sched_clock source
> 
> As they both have the same frequency, neither overrides the other, and
> whichever gets registered last is used as the sched_clock. As accesses to the
> architected timer are going to have a much lower overhead, this isn't very nice
> (and it could be better to use it even if it had a lower frequency).
> 
> We could move the versatile_sched_clock_init call before the
> clocksource_of_init, but that doesn't feel like an ideal solution. We may have
> similar problems elsewhere.

The intention was that a 64-bit counter is preferred. This should fix 
that. It would be nice if we could describe access overhead to make a decision. 
For now, I think 32 vs. 64 bit is sufficient.

>> diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c b/drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c
>> index d7ad425..afb70aa 100644
>> --- a/drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c
>> +++ b/drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c
>> @@ -337,24 +337,11 @@ out:
>>         return err;
>>  }
>>
>> -static const struct of_device_id arch_timer_of_match[] __initconst = {
>> -       { .compatible   = "arm,armv7-timer",    },
>> -       { .compatible   = "arm,armv8-timer",    },
>> -       {},
>> -};
>> -
>> -int __init arch_timer_init(void)
>> +static void __init arch_timer_init(struct device_node *np)
>>  {
>> -       struct device_node *np;
>>         u32 freq;
>>         int i;
>>
> 
> If we the following here:
> 
> 	if (arch_timer_get_rate()) {
> 		pr_warn("arch_timer: multiple nodes in dt, skipping\n");
> 		return;
> 	}
> 
> We may save ourselves a whole world of pain with dts which (erroneously) have
> multiple timer nodes (though these are now disappearing). Otherwise we could
> have a memory leak and multiple instances of the cpu0 timer registered, which
> could lead to all sorts of weirdness. The existing code side-steps this issue
> by only grabbing the first node, so this would keep things consistent.
> 

Okay, I'll add.

Rob

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ARM: convert arm/arm64 arch timer to use CLKSRC_OF init

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