Subject: [PATCH v2] clocksource/arm_arch_timer: Enable and verify MMIO access

From: [email-masked] (Marc Zyngier)
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 14:09:25 +0000

On 08/02/16 14:00, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> On 02/01/2016 01:00 PM, 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 <[email-masked]>
>> ---
> 
> Hi Marc,
> 
> can you give your opinion on this patch ?

This seems to do the right thing, so FWIW:

Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <[email-masked]>

Thanks,

	M.
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