tree 52b96cd02ae8bb5a9ad7bced1c5af49b1b6d2959
parent d761f3ed6e71bcca724a6e9e39efcac65b7b4ac1
author Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> 1470045255 +0100
committer Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> 1470060953 +0200

clocksource/arm_arch_timer: Force per-CPU interrupt to be level-triggered

The ARM architected timer produces level-triggered interrupts (this
is mandated by the architecture). Unfortunately, a number of
device-trees get this wrong, and expose an edge-triggered interrupt.

Until now, this wasn't too much an issue, as the programming of the
trigger would fail (the corresponding PPI cannot be reconfigured),
and the kernel would be happy with this. But we're about to change
this, and trust DT a lot if the driver doesn't provide its own
trigger information. In that context, the timer breaks badly.

While we do need to fix the DTs, there is also some userspace out
there (kvmtool) that generates the same kind of broken DT on the
fly, and that will completely break with newer kernels.

As a safety measure, and to keep buggy software alive as well as
buying us some time to fix DTs all over the place, let's check
what trigger configuration has been given us by the firmware.
If this is not a level configuration, then we know that the
DT/ACPI configuration is bust, and we pick some defaults which
won't be worse than the existing setup.

Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Cc: Liu Gang <Gang.Liu@nxp.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <marc.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Cc: Wenbin Song <Wenbin.Song@freescale.com>
Cc: Mingkai Hu <Mingkai.Hu@freescale.com>
Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@baylibre.com>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Cc: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>
Cc: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>
Cc: arm@kernel.org
Cc: bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com>
Cc: Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>
Cc: Ray Jui <rjui@broadcom.com>
Cc: "Hou Zhiqiang" <B48286@freescale.com>
Cc: Tirumalesh Chalamarla <tchalamarla@cavium.com>
Cc: linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Yuan Yao <yao.yuan@nxp.com>
Cc: Jan Glauber <jglauber@cavium.com>
Cc: Gregory Clement <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>
Cc: linux-amlogic@lists.infradead.org
Cc: soren.brinkmann@xilinx.com
Cc: Rajesh Bhagat <rajesh.bhagat@freescale.com>
Cc: Scott Branden <sbranden@broadcom.com>
Cc: Duc Dang <dhdang@apm.com>
Cc: Kukjin Kim <kgene@kernel.org>
Cc: Carlo Caione <carlo@caione.org>
Cc: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@opensource.altera.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470045256-9032-2-git-send-email-marc.zyngier@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>