[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 05/20] timer: Add generic driver for RISC-V privileged architecture defined timer

Auer, Lukas lukas.auer at aisec.fraunhofer.de
Mon Dec 10 23:17:18 UTC 2018


Hi Bin,

On Fri, 2018-12-07 at 06:14 -0800, Bin Meng wrote:
> RISC-V privileged architecture v1.10 defines a real-time counter,
> exposed as a memory-mapped machine-mode register - mtime. mtime must
> run at constant frequency, and the platform must provide a mechanism
> for determining the timebase of mtime. The mtime register has a
> 64-bit precision on all RV32, RV64, and RV128 systems.
> 
> Different platform may have different implementation of the mtime
> block hence an API riscv_get_time() is required by this driver for
> platform codes to hide such implementation details. For example,
> on some platforms mtime is provided by the CLINT module, while on
> some other platforms a simple 'rdtime' can be used to get the timer
> counter.
> 
> With this timer driver the U-Boot timer functionalities like delay
> works correctly now.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com>
> 
> ---
> 
> Changes in v2:
> - remove the probe to syscon driver in the timer probe, to make the
>   driver generic, and rely on platform codes to provide the API
>   riscv_get_time().
> 
>  drivers/timer/Kconfig       |  8 +++++++
>  drivers/timer/Makefile      |  1 +
>  drivers/timer/riscv_timer.c | 57
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 66 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/timer/riscv_timer.c
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/timer/Kconfig b/drivers/timer/Kconfig
> index b0e6f32..8995979 100644
> --- a/drivers/timer/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/timer/Kconfig
> @@ -126,6 +126,14 @@ config OMAP_TIMER
>  	help
>  	  Select this to enable an timer for Omap devices.
>  
> +config RISCV_TIMER
> +	bool "RISC-V timer support"
> +	depends on RISCV && TIMER
> +	select RISCV_CLINT

Since we have one generic timer for RISC-V now, I don't think it makes
sense to specifically select the CLINT here.

> +	help
> +	  Select this to enable support for the timer as defined
> +	  by the RISC-V privileged architecture spec v1.10.

nit: should we explicitly mention the version here? v1.11 will also
include the mtime CSR, for example. This is not really important, just
noticed it now.

Looks good otherwise.

Reviewed-by: Lukas Auer <lukas.auer at aisec.fraunhofer.de>

Thanks,
Lukas

> +
>  config ROCKCHIP_TIMER
>  	bool "Rockchip timer support"
>  	depends on TIMER
> diff --git a/drivers/timer/Makefile b/drivers/timer/Makefile
> index c4fbab2..d0bf218 100644
> --- a/drivers/timer/Makefile
> +++ b/drivers/timer/Makefile
> @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_CADENCE_TTC_TIMER)	+= cadence-
> ttc.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_DESIGNWARE_APB_TIMER)	+= dw-apb-timer.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_MPC83XX_TIMER) += mpc83xx_timer.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_OMAP_TIMER)	+= omap-timer.o
> +obj-$(CONFIG_RISCV_TIMER) += riscv_timer.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_ROCKCHIP_TIMER) += rockchip_timer.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_SANDBOX_TIMER)	+= sandbox_timer.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_STI_TIMER)		+= sti-timer.o
> diff --git a/drivers/timer/riscv_timer.c
> b/drivers/timer/riscv_timer.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..ef3bedc
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/timer/riscv_timer.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
> +/*
> + * Copyright (C) 2018, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com>
> + *
> + * RISC-V privileged architecture defined generic timer driver
> + *
> + * This driver relies on RISC-V platform codes to provide the
> essential API
> + * riscv_get_time() which is supposed to return the timer counter as
> defined
> + * by the RISC-V privileged architecture spec v1.10.
> + *
> + * This driver can be used by both M-mode and S-mode.
> + */
> +
> +#include <common.h>
> +#include <dm.h>
> +#include <errno.h>
> +#include <timer.h>
> +#include <asm/io.h>
> +
> +/**
> + * riscv_get_time() - get the timer counter
> + *
> + * Platform codes should provide this API in order to make this
> driver function.
> + *
> + * @return:	64-bit timer counter as defined by the RISC-V
> privileged
> + *		architecture spec v1.10.
> + */
> +extern u64 riscv_get_time(void);
> +
> +static int riscv_timer_get_count(struct udevice *dev, u64 *count)
> +{
> +	*count = riscv_get_time();
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
> +static int riscv_timer_probe(struct udevice *dev)
> +{
> +	struct timer_dev_priv *uc_priv = dev_get_uclass_priv(dev);
> +
> +	/* clock frequency was passed from the cpu driver as driver
> data */
> +	uc_priv->clock_rate = dev->driver_data;
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
> +static const struct timer_ops riscv_timer_ops = {
> +	.get_count = riscv_timer_get_count,
> +};
> +
> +U_BOOT_DRIVER(riscv_timer) = {
> +	.name = "riscv_timer",
> +	.id = UCLASS_TIMER,
> +	.probe = riscv_timer_probe,
> +	.ops = &riscv_timer_ops,
> +	.flags = DM_FLAG_PRE_RELOC,
> +};


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