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clocksource: Add NPS400 timers driver Add internal tick generator which is shared by all cores. Each cluster of cores view it through dedicated address. This is used for SMP system where all CPUs synced by same clock source. Signed-off-by: Noam Camus <noamc@ezchip.com> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Acked-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
2015-10-17 22:37:30 +03:00
clocksource: update "fn" at CLOCKSOURCE_OF_DECLARE() of nps400 timer nps_setup_clocksource() should take node as only argument as defined by typedef int (*of_init_fn_1_ret)(struct device_node *) Therefore need to replace: int __init nps_setup_clocksource(struct device_node *node, struct clk *clk) with int __init nps_setup_clocksource(struct device_node *node) This patch also serve as preparation for next patch which add support for clockevents to nps400. Specifically we add new function nps_get_timer_clk() to serve clocksource and later clockevent registration. Signed-off-by: Noam Camus <noamca@mellanox.com> Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
2016-11-16 08:31:12 +02:00
clocksource: nps: avoid maybe-uninitialized warning We get a harmless false-positive warning with the newly added nps clocksource driver: drivers/clocksource/timer-nps.c: In function 'nps_setup_clocksource': drivers/clocksource/timer-nps.c:102:6: error: 'nps_timer1_freq' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized] Gcc here fails to identify that IS_ERR() is only true if PTR_ERR() has a nonzero value. Using PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO() to convert the result first makes this obvious and shuts up the warning. Fixes: 0ee4d9922df5 ("clocksource: Add clockevent support to NPS400 driver") Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
2016-11-22 15:33:44 +01:00
clocksource: Add missing line break to error messages Printing with pr_* functions requires adding line break manually. Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl> Acked-by: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
2017-03-09 10:47:10 +01:00
clocksource: nps: avoid maybe-uninitialized warning We get a harmless false-positive warning with the newly added nps clocksource driver: drivers/clocksource/timer-nps.c: In function 'nps_setup_clocksource': drivers/clocksource/timer-nps.c:102:6: error: 'nps_timer1_freq' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized] Gcc here fails to identify that IS_ERR() is only true if PTR_ERR() has a nonzero value. Using PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO() to convert the result first makes this obvious and shuts up the warning. Fixes: 0ee4d9922df5 ("clocksource: Add clockevent support to NPS400 driver") Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
2016-11-22 15:33:44 +01:00
clocksource: update "fn" at CLOCKSOURCE_OF_DECLARE() of nps400 timer nps_setup_clocksource() should take node as only argument as defined by typedef int (*of_init_fn_1_ret)(struct device_node *) Therefore need to replace: int __init nps_setup_clocksource(struct device_node *node, struct clk *clk) with int __init nps_setup_clocksource(struct device_node *node) This patch also serve as preparation for next patch which add support for clockevents to nps400. Specifically we add new function nps_get_timer_clk() to serve clocksource and later clockevent registration. Signed-off-by: Noam Camus <noamca@mellanox.com> Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
2016-11-16 08:31:12 +02:00
clocksource: Add NPS400 timers driver Add internal tick generator which is shared by all cores. Each cluster of cores view it through dedicated address. This is used for SMP system where all CPUs synced by same clock source. Signed-off-by: Noam Camus <noamc@ezchip.com> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Acked-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
2015-10-17 22:37:30 +03:00
clocksource: Use a plain u64 instead of cycle_t There is no point in having an extra type for extra confusion. u64 is unambiguous. Conversion was done with the following coccinelle script: @rem@ @@ -typedef u64 cycle_t; @fix@ typedef cycle_t; @@ -cycle_t +u64 Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
2016-12-21 20:32:01 +01:00
clocksource: Add NPS400 timers driver Add internal tick generator which is shared by all cores. Each cluster of cores view it through dedicated address. This is used for SMP system where all CPUs synced by same clock source. Signed-off-by: Noam Camus <noamc@ezchip.com> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Acked-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
2015-10-17 22:37:30 +03:00
clocksource: Use a plain u64 instead of cycle_t There is no point in having an extra type for extra confusion. u64 is unambiguous. Conversion was done with the following coccinelle script: @rem@ @@ -typedef u64 cycle_t; @fix@ typedef cycle_t; @@ -cycle_t +u64 Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
2016-12-21 20:32:01 +01:00
clocksource: Add NPS400 timers driver Add internal tick generator which is shared by all cores. Each cluster of cores view it through dedicated address. This is used for SMP system where all CPUs synced by same clock source. Signed-off-by: Noam Camus <noamc@ezchip.com> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Acked-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
2015-10-17 22:37:30 +03:00
clocksource: update "fn" at CLOCKSOURCE_OF_DECLARE() of nps400 timer nps_setup_clocksource() should take node as only argument as defined by typedef int (*of_init_fn_1_ret)(struct device_node *) Therefore need to replace: int __init nps_setup_clocksource(struct device_node *node, struct clk *clk) with int __init nps_setup_clocksource(struct device_node *node) This patch also serve as preparation for next patch which add support for clockevents to nps400. Specifically we add new function nps_get_timer_clk() to serve clocksource and later clockevent registration. Signed-off-by: Noam Camus <noamca@mellanox.com> Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
2016-11-16 08:31:12 +02:00
clocksource: Add NPS400 timers driver Add internal tick generator which is shared by all cores. Each cluster of cores view it through dedicated address. This is used for SMP system where all CPUs synced by same clock source. Signed-off-by: Noam Camus <noamc@ezchip.com> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Acked-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
2015-10-17 22:37:30 +03:00
clocksource: update "fn" at CLOCKSOURCE_OF_DECLARE() of nps400 timer nps_setup_clocksource() should take node as only argument as defined by typedef int (*of_init_fn_1_ret)(struct device_node *) Therefore need to replace: int __init nps_setup_clocksource(struct device_node *node, struct clk *clk) with int __init nps_setup_clocksource(struct device_node *node) This patch also serve as preparation for next patch which add support for clockevents to nps400. Specifically we add new function nps_get_timer_clk() to serve clocksource and later clockevent registration. Signed-off-by: Noam Camus <noamca@mellanox.com> Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
2016-11-16 08:31:12 +02:00
clocksource: Add NPS400 timers driver Add internal tick generator which is shared by all cores. Each cluster of cores view it through dedicated address. This is used for SMP system where all CPUs synced by same clock source. Signed-off-by: Noam Camus <noamc@ezchip.com> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Acked-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
2015-10-17 22:37:30 +03:00
clocksource: update "fn" at CLOCKSOURCE_OF_DECLARE() of nps400 timer nps_setup_clocksource() should take node as only argument as defined by typedef int (*of_init_fn_1_ret)(struct device_node *) Therefore need to replace: int __init nps_setup_clocksource(struct device_node *node, struct clk *clk) with int __init nps_setup_clocksource(struct device_node *node) This patch also serve as preparation for next patch which add support for clockevents to nps400. Specifically we add new function nps_get_timer_clk() to serve clocksource and later clockevent registration. Signed-off-by: Noam Camus <noamca@mellanox.com> Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
2016-11-16 08:31:12 +02:00
clocksource: Add NPS400 timers driver Add internal tick generator which is shared by all cores. Each cluster of cores view it through dedicated address. This is used for SMP system where all CPUs synced by same clock source. Signed-off-by: Noam Camus <noamc@ezchip.com> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Acked-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
2015-10-17 22:37:30 +03:00
clocksource: update "fn" at CLOCKSOURCE_OF_DECLARE() of nps400 timer nps_setup_clocksource() should take node as only argument as defined by typedef int (*of_init_fn_1_ret)(struct device_node *) Therefore need to replace: int __init nps_setup_clocksource(struct device_node *node, struct clk *clk) with int __init nps_setup_clocksource(struct device_node *node) This patch also serve as preparation for next patch which add support for clockevents to nps400. Specifically we add new function nps_get_timer_clk() to serve clocksource and later clockevent registration. Signed-off-by: Noam Camus <noamca@mellanox.com> Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
2016-11-16 08:31:12 +02:00
clocksource/drivers/nps: Convert init function to return error The init functions do not return any error. They behave as the following: - panic, thus leading to a kernel crash while another timer may work and make the system boot up correctly or - print an error and let the caller unaware if the state of the system Change that by converting the init functions to return an error conforming to the CLOCKSOURCE_OF_RET prototype. Proper error handling (rollback, errno value) will be changed later case by case, thus this change just return back an error or success in the init function. Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2016-06-15 14:16:11 +02:00
clocksource: Add NPS400 timers driver Add internal tick generator which is shared by all cores. Each cluster of cores view it through dedicated address. This is used for SMP system where all CPUs synced by same clock source. Signed-off-by: Noam Camus <noamc@ezchip.com> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Acked-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
2015-10-17 22:37:30 +03:00
clocksource: update "fn" at CLOCKSOURCE_OF_DECLARE() of nps400 timer nps_setup_clocksource() should take node as only argument as defined by typedef int (*of_init_fn_1_ret)(struct device_node *) Therefore need to replace: int __init nps_setup_clocksource(struct device_node *node, struct clk *clk) with int __init nps_setup_clocksource(struct device_node *node) This patch also serve as preparation for next patch which add support for clockevents to nps400. Specifically we add new function nps_get_timer_clk() to serve clocksource and later clockevent registration. Signed-off-by: Noam Camus <noamca@mellanox.com> Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
2016-11-16 08:31:12 +02:00
clocksource: Add NPS400 timers driver Add internal tick generator which is shared by all cores. Each cluster of cores view it through dedicated address. This is used for SMP system where all CPUs synced by same clock source. Signed-off-by: Noam Camus <noamc@ezchip.com> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Acked-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
2015-10-17 22:37:30 +03:00
clocksource/drivers/nps: Convert init function to return error The init functions do not return any error. They behave as the following: - panic, thus leading to a kernel crash while another timer may work and make the system boot up correctly or - print an error and let the caller unaware if the state of the system Change that by converting the init functions to return an error conforming to the CLOCKSOURCE_OF_RET prototype. Proper error handling (rollback, errno value) will be changed later case by case, thus this change just return back an error or success in the init function. Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2016-06-15 14:16:11 +02:00
clocksource: Add NPS400 timers driver Add internal tick generator which is shared by all cores. Each cluster of cores view it through dedicated address. This is used for SMP system where all CPUs synced by same clock source. Signed-off-by: Noam Camus <noamc@ezchip.com> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Acked-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
2015-10-17 22:37:30 +03:00
clocksource/drivers: Rename CLOCKSOURCE_OF_DECLARE to TIMER_OF_DECLARE The CLOCKSOURCE_OF_DECLARE macro is used widely for the timers to declare the clocksource at early stage. However, this macro is also used to initialize the clockevent if any, or the clockevent only. It was originally suggested to declare another macro to initialize a clockevent, so in order to separate the two entities even they belong to the same IP. This was not accepted because of the impact on the DT where splitting a clocksource/clockevent definition does not make sense as it is a Linux concept not a hardware description. On the other side, the clocksource has not interrupt declared while the clockevent has, so it is easy from the driver to know if the description is for a clockevent or a clocksource, IOW it could be implemented at the driver level. So instead of dealing with a named clocksource macro, let's use a more generic one: TIMER_OF_DECLARE. The patch has not functional changes. Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> Acked-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de> Acked-by: Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@baylibre.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2017-05-26 16:56:11 +02:00
clocksource: update "fn" at CLOCKSOURCE_OF_DECLARE() of nps400 timer nps_setup_clocksource() should take node as only argument as defined by typedef int (*of_init_fn_1_ret)(struct device_node *) Therefore need to replace: int __init nps_setup_clocksource(struct device_node *node, struct clk *clk) with int __init nps_setup_clocksource(struct device_node *node) This patch also serve as preparation for next patch which add support for clockevents to nps400. Specifically we add new function nps_get_timer_clk() to serve clocksource and later clockevent registration. Signed-off-by: Noam Camus <noamca@mellanox.com> Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
2016-11-16 08:31:12 +02:00
clocksource/drivers: Rename CLOCKSOURCE_OF_DECLARE to TIMER_OF_DECLARE The CLOCKSOURCE_OF_DECLARE macro is used widely for the timers to declare the clocksource at early stage. However, this macro is also used to initialize the clockevent if any, or the clockevent only. It was originally suggested to declare another macro to initialize a clockevent, so in order to separate the two entities even they belong to the same IP. This was not accepted because of the impact on the DT where splitting a clocksource/clockevent definition does not make sense as it is a Linux concept not a hardware description. On the other side, the clocksource has not interrupt declared while the clockevent has, so it is easy from the driver to know if the description is for a clockevent or a clocksource, IOW it could be implemented at the driver level. So instead of dealing with a named clocksource macro, let's use a more generic one: TIMER_OF_DECLARE. The patch has not functional changes. Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> Acked-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de> Acked-by: Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@baylibre.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2017-05-26 16:56:11 +02:00
clocksource: Add clockevent support to NPS400 driver Till now we used clockevent from generic ARC driver. This was enough as long as we worked with simple multicore SoC. When we are working with multithread SoC each HW thread can be scheduled to receive timer interrupt using timer mask register. This patch will provide a way to control clock events per HW thread. The design idea is that for each core there is dedicated register (TSI) serving all 16 HW threads. The register is a bitmask with one bit for each HW thread. When HW thread wants that next expiration of timer interrupt will hit it then the proper bit should be set in this dedicated register. When timer expires all HW threads within this core which their bit is set at the TSI register will be interrupted. Driver can be used from device tree by: compatible = "ezchip,nps400-timer0" <-- for clocksource compatible = "ezchip,nps400-timer1" <-- for clockevent Note that name convention for timer0/timer1 was taken from legacy ARC design. This design is our base before adding HW threads. For backward compatibility we keep "ezchip,nps400-timer" for clocksource Signed-off-by: Noam Camus <noamca@mellanox.com> Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
2016-11-17 09:12:43 +02:00
clocksource: Add missing line break to error messages Printing with pr_* functions requires adding line break manually. Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl> Acked-by: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
2017-03-09 10:47:10 +01:00
clocksource: Add clockevent support to NPS400 driver Till now we used clockevent from generic ARC driver. This was enough as long as we worked with simple multicore SoC. When we are working with multithread SoC each HW thread can be scheduled to receive timer interrupt using timer mask register. This patch will provide a way to control clock events per HW thread. The design idea is that for each core there is dedicated register (TSI) serving all 16 HW threads. The register is a bitmask with one bit for each HW thread. When HW thread wants that next expiration of timer interrupt will hit it then the proper bit should be set in this dedicated register. When timer expires all HW threads within this core which their bit is set at the TSI register will be interrupted. Driver can be used from device tree by: compatible = "ezchip,nps400-timer0" <-- for clocksource compatible = "ezchip,nps400-timer1" <-- for clockevent Note that name convention for timer0/timer1 was taken from legacy ARC design. This design is our base before adding HW threads. For backward compatibility we keep "ezchip,nps400-timer" for clocksource Signed-off-by: Noam Camus <noamca@mellanox.com> Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
2016-11-17 09:12:43 +02:00
clocksource: Add missing line break to error messages Printing with pr_* functions requires adding line break manually. Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl> Acked-by: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
2017-03-09 10:47:10 +01:00
clocksource: Add clockevent support to NPS400 driver Till now we used clockevent from generic ARC driver. This was enough as long as we worked with simple multicore SoC. When we are working with multithread SoC each HW thread can be scheduled to receive timer interrupt using timer mask register. This patch will provide a way to control clock events per HW thread. The design idea is that for each core there is dedicated register (TSI) serving all 16 HW threads. The register is a bitmask with one bit for each HW thread. When HW thread wants that next expiration of timer interrupt will hit it then the proper bit should be set in this dedicated register. When timer expires all HW threads within this core which their bit is set at the TSI register will be interrupted. Driver can be used from device tree by: compatible = "ezchip,nps400-timer0" <-- for clocksource compatible = "ezchip,nps400-timer1" <-- for clockevent Note that name convention for timer0/timer1 was taken from legacy ARC design. This design is our base before adding HW threads. For backward compatibility we keep "ezchip,nps400-timer" for clocksource Signed-off-by: Noam Camus <noamca@mellanox.com> Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
2016-11-17 09:12:43 +02:00
clocksource/drivers: Rename CLOCKSOURCE_OF_DECLARE to TIMER_OF_DECLARE The CLOCKSOURCE_OF_DECLARE macro is used widely for the timers to declare the clocksource at early stage. However, this macro is also used to initialize the clockevent if any, or the clockevent only. It was originally suggested to declare another macro to initialize a clockevent, so in order to separate the two entities even they belong to the same IP. This was not accepted because of the impact on the DT where splitting a clocksource/clockevent definition does not make sense as it is a Linux concept not a hardware description. On the other side, the clocksource has not interrupt declared while the clockevent has, so it is easy from the driver to know if the description is for a clockevent or a clocksource, IOW it could be implemented at the driver level. So instead of dealing with a named clocksource macro, let's use a more generic one: TIMER_OF_DECLARE. The patch has not functional changes. Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> Acked-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de> Acked-by: Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@baylibre.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2017-05-26 16:56:11 +02:00
clocksource: Add clockevent support to NPS400 driver Till now we used clockevent from generic ARC driver. This was enough as long as we worked with simple multicore SoC. When we are working with multithread SoC each HW thread can be scheduled to receive timer interrupt using timer mask register. This patch will provide a way to control clock events per HW thread. The design idea is that for each core there is dedicated register (TSI) serving all 16 HW threads. The register is a bitmask with one bit for each HW thread. When HW thread wants that next expiration of timer interrupt will hit it then the proper bit should be set in this dedicated register. When timer expires all HW threads within this core which their bit is set at the TSI register will be interrupted. Driver can be used from device tree by: compatible = "ezchip,nps400-timer0" <-- for clocksource compatible = "ezchip,nps400-timer1" <-- for clockevent Note that name convention for timer0/timer1 was taken from legacy ARC design. This design is our base before adding HW threads. For backward compatibility we keep "ezchip,nps400-timer" for clocksource Signed-off-by: Noam Camus <noamca@mellanox.com> Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
2016-11-17 09:12:43 +02:00