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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] ARM: local timers: Unmask interrupt before new TVAL is set
On 8/11/2012 3:17 AM, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 14:57:34 -0700, Rohit Vaswani
> <rvaswani@codeaurora.org>
> wrote:
>> Level triggered interrupt is deasserted when a new TVAL is written
>> only when the interrupt is unmasked. Make sure that the interrupt
>> is unmasked in CTL register before TVAL is written.
>> If this order is not followed, there are chances that on some
>> hardware you would not receive any timer interrupts.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Rohit Vaswani <rvaswani@codeaurora.org>
>> ---
>> arch/arm/kernel/arch_timer.c | 2 +-
>> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/arch_timer.c b/arch/arm/kernel/arch_timer.c
>> index dd58035..1d0d9df 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/kernel/arch_timer.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/arch_timer.c
>> @@ -126,8 +126,8 @@ static int arch_timer_set_next_event(unsigned long
> evt,
>> ctrl |= ARCH_TIMER_CTRL_ENABLE;
>> ctrl &= ~ARCH_TIMER_CTRL_IT_MASK;
>>
>> - arch_timer_reg_write(ARCH_TIMER_REG_TVAL, evt);
>> arch_timer_reg_write(ARCH_TIMER_REG_CTRL, ctrl);
>> + arch_timer_reg_write(ARCH_TIMER_REG_TVAL, evt);
> But by doing so, you're opening a window where TVAL can be negative (from
> a previous timer trigger) and the interrupt unmasked, which would lead to
> an immediate trigger, before TVAL is updated with the new value.
>
> Does your hardware deassert the interrupt even when the enable bit is not
> set? If so, would the following sequence work?
>
> ctrl &= ~(ARCH_TIMER_CTRL_ENABLE | ARCH_TIMER_CTRL_IT_MASK);
> arch_timer_reg_write(ARCH_TIMER_REG_CTRL, ctrl);
>
> arch_timer_reg_write(ARCH_TIMER_REG_TVAL, evt);
>
> ctrl |= ARCH_TIMER_CTRL_ENABLE;
> arch_timer_reg_write(ARCH_TIMER_REG_CTRL, ctrl);
>
> Thanks,
>
> M.
Thanks Marc, this works. I will re-send the patch with these changes.

Thanks,
Rohit Vaswani

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