On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 10:43:54PM +0000, Sonny Rao wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Mark Salter <msal...@redhat.com> wrote:
> > Using Linus' tree from this morning, I am hitting:
> >
> > [ 0.000000] BUG: failure at
> > ./arch/arm64/include/asm/arch_timer.h:112/arch_counter_get_cntpct!
> >
> > This is triggered by commit 0b46b8a718 ("clocksource: arch_timer: Fix
> > code to use physical timers when requested") which addresses an armv7
> > problem. Arm64 wants to always use a virtual timer. I used this to avoid
> > the BUG and get a booting kernel:
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c
> > b/drivers/clocksource/arm_arch
> > index 71846f9..4d8a01e 100644
> > --- a/drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c
> > +++ b/drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c
> > @@ -468,7 +468,7 @@ static void __init arch_counter_register(unsigned type)
> >
> > /* Register the CP15 based counter if we have one */
> > if (type & ARCH_CP15_TIMER) {
> > - if (arch_timer_use_virtual)
> > + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARM64) || arch_timer_use_virtual)
> > arch_timer_read_counter = arch_counter_get_cntvct;
> > else
> > arch_timer_read_counter = arch_counter_get_cntpct;
> >
> >
>
> Yes Catalin has prepared a similar patch:
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/5468031/
Indeed. Daniel will be pushing it upstream.
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