[U-Boot] [Drivers PATCH 16/19] armv7/ltimer: Add support for local timer on armv7 cpus

Vipin Kumar vipin.kumar at st.com
Fri Nov 2 18:40:01 CET 2012


Certain ARMV7 cpus eg. CortexA9 contains a local and a global timer within the
CPU core itself.  This patch adds generic support for local timer.

Signed-off-by: Vipin Kumar <vipin.kumar at st.com>
---
 arch/arm/cpu/armv7/Makefile       |  11 ++-
 arch/arm/cpu/armv7/ca9_ltimer.c   | 154 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 arch/arm/include/asm/ca9_ltimer.h |  40 ++++++++++
 3 files changed, 201 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 arch/arm/cpu/armv7/ca9_ltimer.c
 create mode 100644 arch/arm/include/asm/ca9_ltimer.h

diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/Makefile b/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/Makefile
index 4fdbee4..3ef01f6 100644
--- a/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/Makefile
@@ -27,15 +27,18 @@ LIB	= $(obj)lib$(CPU).o
 
 START	:= start.o
 
-COBJS	+= cache_v7.o
+COBJS-y	+= cache_v7.o
 
-COBJS	+= cpu.o
-COBJS	+= syslib.o
+COBJS-y	+= cpu.o
+COBJS-y	+= syslib.o
+COBJS-$(CONFIG_ARMV7_CA9LTIMER) += ca9_ltimer.o
 
 ifneq ($(CONFIG_AM33XX)$(CONFIG_OMAP44XX)$(CONFIG_OMAP54XX)$(CONFIG_TEGRA20),)
-SOBJS	+= lowlevel_init.o
+SOBJS-y	+= lowlevel_init.o
 endif
 
+COBJS	:= $(sort $(COBJS-y))
+SOBJS	:= $(sort $(SOBJS-y))
 SRCS	:= $(START:.o=.S) $(COBJS:.o=.c)
 OBJS	:= $(addprefix $(obj),$(COBJS) $(SOBJS))
 START	:= $(addprefix $(obj),$(START))
diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/ca9_ltimer.c b/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/ca9_ltimer.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..be04b6a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/ca9_ltimer.c
@@ -0,0 +1,154 @@
+/*
+ * (C) Copyright 2012
+ * Vipin Kumar, ST Micoelectronics, vipin.kumar at st.com.
+ *
+ * See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
+ * project.
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
+ * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+ * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
+ * MA 02111-1307 USA
+ */
+
+#include <common.h>
+#include <asm/io.h>
+#include <asm/ca9_ltimer.h>
+#include <asm/arch/hardware.h>
+
+#define READ_TIMER()	readl(&ca9_timer_p->count)
+
+static struct ca9_timer_regs *const ca9_timer_p =
+	(struct ca9_timer_regs *)CONFIG_ARMV7_LTIMER_BASE;
+
+DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR;
+
+#define timestamp	gd->tbl
+#define lastdec		gd->lastinc
+#define tickshz		gd->timer_rate_hz
+#define ticksper10usec	gd->tbu
+
+int timer_init(void)
+{
+	u32 prescaler, timertickshz;
+	/*
+	 * Genrally, CortexA9 MPUs are operating from 500MHz to 1500MHz which
+	 * means that CA9 local timer clock would be in the range of 250 MHz to
+	 * 750MHz.
+	 * Try to find a prescaler which can perfectly divide the local timer
+	 * clock. Take prescaler as 200 if nothing is found
+	 */
+	for (prescaler = 255; prescaler > 1; prescaler--) {
+		if (CONFIG_ARMV7_LTMR_CLK ==
+				(CONFIG_ARMV7_LTMR_CLK / prescaler) * prescaler)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	if (prescaler == 1)
+		prescaler = 200;
+	timertickshz = CONFIG_ARMV7_LTMR_CLK / prescaler;
+	ticksper10usec = timertickshz / (100 * 1000);
+	tickshz = timertickshz / CONFIG_SYS_HZ;
+
+	/* disable timers */
+	writel(((prescaler - 1) << 8) | AUTO_RELOAD, &ca9_timer_p->control);
+
+	/* load value for free running */
+	writel(FREE_RUNNING, &ca9_timer_p->load);
+
+	/* auto reload, start timer */
+	writel(readl(&ca9_timer_p->control) | TIMER_ENABLE,
+			&ca9_timer_p->control);
+
+	reset_timer_masked();
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+/*
+ * timer without interrupts
+ */
+
+void reset_timer(void)
+{
+	reset_timer_masked();
+}
+
+ulong get_timer(ulong base)
+{
+	return (get_timer_masked() / tickshz) - base;
+}
+
+void set_timer(ulong t)
+{
+	timestamp = t;
+}
+
+void __udelay(unsigned long usec)
+{
+	ulong tmo;
+	ulong start = get_timer_masked();
+	ulong rndoff;
+
+	rndoff = (usec % 10) ? 1 : 0;
+	tmo = ((usec / 10) + rndoff) * ticksper10usec;
+
+	while ((ulong) (get_timer_masked() - start) < tmo)
+		;
+}
+
+void reset_timer_masked(void)
+{
+	/* reset time */
+	lastdec = READ_TIMER();
+	timestamp = 0;
+}
+
+ulong get_timer_masked(void)
+{
+	ulong now = READ_TIMER();
+
+	if (now <= lastdec) {
+		/* normal mode */
+		timestamp += lastdec - now;
+	} else {
+		/* we have an overflow ... */
+		timestamp += lastdec + FREE_RUNNING - now;
+	}
+	lastdec = now;
+
+	return timestamp;
+}
+
+void udelay_masked(unsigned long usec)
+{
+	return udelay(usec);
+}
+
+/*
+ * This function is derived from PowerPC code (read timebase as long long).
+ * On ARM it just returns the timer value.
+ */
+unsigned long long get_ticks(void)
+{
+	return get_timer(0);
+}
+
+/*
+ * This function is derived from PowerPC code (timebase clock frequency).
+ * On ARM it returns the number of timer ticks per second.
+ */
+ulong get_tbclk(void)
+{
+	return CONFIG_SYS_HZ;
+}
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/ca9_ltimer.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/ca9_ltimer.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8833853
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/ca9_ltimer.h
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+/*
+ * (C) Copyright 2012
+ * Vipin Kumar, ST Micoelectronics, vipin.kumar at st.com.
+ *
+ * See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
+ * project.
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
+ * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+ * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
+ * MA 02111-1307 USA
+ */
+
+#ifndef __ARCH_ARM_CA9TIMER_H
+#define __ARCH_ARM_CA9TIMER_H
+
+struct ca9_timer_regs {
+	u32 load;
+	u32 count;
+	u32 control;
+};
+
+/* control related definitions */
+#define AUTO_RELOAD		(1 << 1)
+#define TIMER_ENABLE		(1 << 0)
+
+/* load related definitions */
+#define FREE_RUNNING		(0xFFFFFFFF)
+
+#endif
-- 
1.7.11.4



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