Subject: [PATCH v3 2/6] arm64: arch_timer: Introduce a generic erratum handing mechanism for fsl-a008585

From: [email-masked] (Scott Wood)
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2016 13:20:50 -0500

On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 09:06:30PM +0800, Ding Tianhong wrote:
> The workaround for hisilicon,161601 will check the return value of the system counter
> by different way, in order to distinguish with the fsl-a008585 workaround, introduce
> a new generic erratum handing mechanism for fsl-a008585 and rename some functions.
> 
> v2: Introducing a new generic erratum handling mechanism for fsl erratum a008585.
> 
> v3: Introducing the erratum_workaround_set_sne generic function for fsl erratum a008585
>     and make the #define __fsl_a008585_read_reg to be private to the .c file instead of
>     being globally visible. After discussion with Marc and Will, a consensus decision was
>     made to remove the commandline parameter for enabling fsl,erratum-a008585 erratum,
>     and make some generic name more specific, export timer_unstable_counter_workaround
>     for module access.

The command line paramter was added at Marc's request to provide a way of
enbaling the workaround in a KVM guest, until API is added to allow QEMU to
discover the need to set the property in the guest device tree.  Is there an
alternative?

-Scott