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

From: Stephen Boyd
Date: Mon Feb 01 2016 - 14:58:50 EST


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@xxxxxxx>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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