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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/2] Allwinner A64 timer workaround
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Hi,

On 11/05/18 03:27, Samuel Holland wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Several people (including me) have experienced extremely large system
> clock jumps on their A64-based devices, apparently due to the
> architectural timer going backward, which is interpreted by Linux as
> the timer wrapping around after 2^56 cycles.

So I experienced this before, though I didn't see actual clock jumps,
only that subsequent reads of CNTVCT_EL0, both directly via mrs and
indirectly via CLOCK_MONOTONIC, from userland (triggered by a directed
test) *sometimes* went backwards, with a number of '1's in the lower bits.
But that didn't happen on every boot, and I was suspecting that some
timer setup was missing on the hardware/firmware side. And later on I
failed to reproduce it anymore.
So do you see it on every boot, with recent U-Boot/ATF?

Cheers,
Andre.

> Investigation led to discovery of some obvious problems with this SoC's
> architectural timer, and this patch series introduces what I believe is
> the simplest workaround. More details are in the commit message for
> patch 1. Patch 2 simply enables the workaround in the device tree.
>
> Thanks,
> Samuel
>
> Samuel Holland (2):
> arm64: arch_timer: Workaround for Allwinner A64 timer instability
> arm64: dts: allwinner: a64: Enable A64 timer workaround
>
> arch/arm64/boot/dts/allwinner/sun50i-a64.dtsi | 1 +
> drivers/clocksource/Kconfig | 11 ++++++++
> drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 3 files changed, 51 insertions(+)
>
> --
> 2.16.1
>
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