Subject: [PATCH 1/3] arm64: arch_timer: Add device tree binding for hisilicon-161x01 erratum

From: [email-masked] (Shawn Guo)
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2016 20:04:23 +0800

On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 11:21:10AM +0800, Ding Tianhong wrote:
> This erratum describes a bug in logic outside the core, so MIDR can't be
> used to identify its presence, and reading an SoC-specific revision
> register from common arch timer code would be awkward.  So, describe it
> in the device tree.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/arch_timer.txt | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/arch_timer.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/arch_timer.txt
> index ef5fbe9..26bc837 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/arch_timer.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/arch_timer.txt
> @@ -31,6 +31,12 @@ to deliver its interrupts via SPIs.
>    This also affects writes to the tval register, due to the implicit
>    counter read.
> 
> +- hisilicon,erratum-161x01 : A boolean property. Indicates the presence of
> +  QorIQ erratum 161201, which says that reading the counter is

QorIQ is a Freescale/NXP specific name, and shouldn't be there.

Shawn

> +  unreliable unless the small range of value is returned by back-to-back reads.
> +  This also affects writes to the tval register, due to the implicit
> +  counter read.
> +
>  ** Optional properties:
> 
>  - arm,cpu-registers-not-fw-configured : Firmware does not initialize
> -- 
> 1.9.0
> 
> 
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