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[v3] clocksource: exynos_mct: Increase priority over ARM arch timer

Message ID 20190530105043.29965-1-m.szyprowski@samsung.com
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Series [v3] clocksource: exynos_mct: Increase priority over ARM arch timer | expand

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Marek Szyprowski May 30, 2019, 10:50 a.m. UTC 
Exynos SoCs based on CA7/CA15 have 2 timer interfaces: custom Exynos MCT
(Multi Core Timer) and standard ARM Architected Timers.

There are use cases, where both timer interfaces are used simultanously.
One of such examples is using Exynos MCT for the main system timer and
ARM Architected Timers for the KVM and virtualized guests (KVM requires
arch timers).

Exynos Multi-Core Timer driver (exynos_mct) must be however started
before ARM Architected Timers (arch_timer), because they both share some
common hardware blocks (global system counter) and turning on MCT is
needed to get ARM Architected Timer working properly.

To ensure selecting Exynos MCT as the main system timer, increase MCT
timer rating. To ensure proper starting order of both timers during
suspend/resume cycle, increase MCT hotplug priority over ARM Archictected
Timers.

Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>

Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>

Reviewed-by: Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@samsung.com>

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v3: rephrased commit message, rebased onto v5.2-rc1

v2: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10863101/
   added comments about the relation to ARM architected timer
    rebased onto v5.1-rc1

v1: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10814921/
---
 drivers/clocksource/exynos_mct.c | 4 ++--
 include/linux/cpuhotplug.h       | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

-- 
2.17.1

Comments

Daniel Lezcano May 31, 2019, 2:33 p.m. UTC | #1 
On 30/05/2019 12:50, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> Exynos SoCs based on CA7/CA15 have 2 timer interfaces: custom Exynos MCT

> (Multi Core Timer) and standard ARM Architected Timers.

> 

> There are use cases, where both timer interfaces are used simultanously.

> One of such examples is using Exynos MCT for the main system timer and

> ARM Architected Timers for the KVM and virtualized guests (KVM requires

> arch timers).

> 

> Exynos Multi-Core Timer driver (exynos_mct) must be however started

> before ARM Architected Timers (arch_timer), because they both share some

> common hardware blocks (global system counter) and turning on MCT is

> needed to get ARM Architected Timer working properly.

> 

> To ensure selecting Exynos MCT as the main system timer, increase MCT

> timer rating. To ensure proper starting order of both timers during

> suspend/resume cycle, increase MCT hotplug priority over ARM Archictected

> Timers.

> 

> Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>

> Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>

> Reviewed-by: Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@samsung.com>


Applied, thanks



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diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/exynos_mct.c b/drivers/clocksource/exynos_mct.c
index 34bd250d46c6..6aa10cbc1d59 100644
--- a/drivers/clocksource/exynos_mct.c
+++ b/drivers/clocksource/exynos_mct.c
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@  static void exynos4_frc_resume(struct clocksource *cs)
 
 static struct clocksource mct_frc = {
 	.name		= "mct-frc",
-	.rating		= 400,
+	.rating		= 450,	/* use value higher than ARM arch timer */
 	.read		= exynos4_frc_read,
 	.mask		= CLOCKSOURCE_MASK(32),
 	.flags		= CLOCK_SOURCE_IS_CONTINUOUS,
@@ -464,7 +464,7 @@  static int exynos4_mct_starting_cpu(unsigned int cpu)
 	evt->set_state_oneshot_stopped = set_state_shutdown;
 	evt->tick_resume = set_state_shutdown;
 	evt->features = CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_PERIODIC | CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_ONESHOT;
-	evt->rating = 450;
+	evt->rating = 500;	/* use value higher than ARM arch timer */
 
 	exynos4_mct_write(TICK_BASE_CNT, mevt->base + MCT_L_TCNTB_OFFSET);
 
diff --git a/include/linux/cpuhotplug.h b/include/linux/cpuhotplug.h
index e78281d07b70..53fb48de9589 100644
--- a/include/linux/cpuhotplug.h
+++ b/include/linux/cpuhotplug.h
@@ -115,10 +115,10 @@  enum cpuhp_state {
 	CPUHP_AP_PERF_ARM_ACPI_STARTING,
 	CPUHP_AP_PERF_ARM_STARTING,
 	CPUHP_AP_ARM_L2X0_STARTING,
+	CPUHP_AP_EXYNOS4_MCT_TIMER_STARTING,
 	CPUHP_AP_ARM_ARCH_TIMER_STARTING,
 	CPUHP_AP_ARM_GLOBAL_TIMER_STARTING,
 	CPUHP_AP_JCORE_TIMER_STARTING,
-	CPUHP_AP_EXYNOS4_MCT_TIMER_STARTING,
 	CPUHP_AP_ARM_TWD_STARTING,
 	CPUHP_AP_QCOM_TIMER_STARTING,
 	CPUHP_AP_TEGRA_TIMER_STARTING,