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From: robin.murphy@arm•com (Robin Murphy)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] clocksource/arm_arch_timer: Enable and verify MMIO access
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2016 15:29:12 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56B4BFC8.6050201@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160201195816.GL4848@codeaurora.org>

On 01/02/16 19:58, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> On 02/01, Robin Murphy wrote:
>> So far, we have been blindly assuming that having access to a
>> memory-mapped timer frame implies that the individual elements of that
>> frame frame are already enabled. Whilst it's the firmware's job to give
>> us non-secure access to frames in the first place, we should not rely
>> on implementations always being generous enough to also configure CNTACR
>> for those non-secure frames (e.g. [1]).
>>
>> Explicitly enable feature-level access per-frame, and verify that the
>> access we want is really implemented before trying to make use of it.
>>
>> [1]:https://github.com/ARM-software/tf-issues/issues/170
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm•com>
>> ---
>
> Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora•org>
> Tested-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora•org>

Great, thanks!

Daniel, am I right in hoping this is something you'll pick up, or should 
I be resending it to arm-soc?

Thanks,
Robin.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-05 15:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-01 12:00 [PATCH v2] clocksource/arm_arch_timer: Enable and verify MMIO access Robin Murphy
2016-02-01 13:44 ` Mark Rutland
2016-02-01 19:58 ` Stephen Boyd
2016-02-05 15:29   ` Robin Murphy [this message]
2016-02-05 15:32     ` Daniel Lezcano
2016-02-05 15:34       ` Robin Murphy
2016-02-08 14:00 ` Daniel Lezcano
2016-02-08 14:09   ` Marc Zyngier
2016-02-08 14:30 ` Daniel Lezcano

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