[PATCH v6 0/3] Timer support for ARM Tegra

Svyatoslav Ryhel clamor95 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 27 05:51:17 CET 2023


Good point. U-Boot has instruments to get clk_m rate on time of timer
probe. I need some time to prepare this modification for testing.

пт, 27 січ. 2023 р. о 00:12 Dmitry Osipenko <digetx at gmail.com> пише:
>
> 27.01.2023 01:00, Dmitry Osipenko пишет:
> > 26.01.2023 20:54, Thierry Reding пишет:
> >> On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 07:08:54PM +0200, Svyatoslav Ryhel wrote:
> >>> чт, 26 січ. 2023 р. о 12:35 Thierry Reding <thierry.reding at gmail.com> пише:
> >>>>
> >>>> On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 05:41:08PM +0100, Thierry Reding wrote:
> >>>>> On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 08:57:48AM +0200, Svyatoslav Ryhel wrote:
> >>>>>> - ARM: tegra: remap clock_osc_freq for all Tegra family
> >>>>>> Enum clock_osc_freq was designed to use only with T20.
> >>>>>> This patch remaps it to use additional frequencies, added in
> >>>>>> T30+ SoC while maintaining backwards compatibility with T20.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> - drivers: timer: add timer driver for ARMv7 based Tegra devices
> >>>>>> Add timer support for T20/T30/T114 and T124 based devices.
> >>>>>> Driver is based on DM, has device tree support and can be
> >>>>>> used on SPL and early boot stage.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> - ARM: tegra: include timer as default option
> >>>>>> Enable TIMER as default option for all Tegra devices and
> >>>>>> enable TEGRA_TIMER for TEGRA_ARMV7_COMMON. Additionally
> >>>>>> enable SPL_TIMER if build as SPL part and drop deprecated
> >>>>>> configs from common header.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> P. S. I have no arm64 Tegra and according to comment in
> >>>>>> tegra-common.h
> >>>>>> Use the Tegra US timer on ARMv7, but the architected timer on ARMv8.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Svyatoslav Ryhel (3):
> >>>>>>   ARM: tegra: remap clock_osc_freq for all Tegra family
> >>>>>>   drivers: timer: add timer driver for ARMv7 based Tegra devices
> >>>>>>   ARM: tegra: include timer as default option
> >>>>>
> >>>>> This causes a regression on Tegra210 (Jetson TX1). I'm trying to
> >>>>> investigate, but it's complicated by the fact that I'm not getting out
> >>>>> any debug prints, so I suspect the issue is happening quite early.
> >>>>
> >>>> Alright, I managed to make this work on Tegra210 using the following
> >>>> patch on top of this series:
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Hello! Thanks for testing this on T210 SoC.
> >>>
> >>>> --- >8 ---
> >>>> diff --git a/arch/arm/dts/tegra210.dtsi b/arch/arm/dts/tegra210.dtsi
> >>>> index a521a43d6cfd..ccb5a927da89 100644
> >>>> --- a/arch/arm/dts/tegra210.dtsi
> >>>> +++ b/arch/arm/dts/tegra210.dtsi
> >>>> @@ -318,7 +318,7 @@
> >>>>         };
> >>>>
> >>>>         timer at 60005000 {
> >>>> -               compatible = "nvidia,tegra210-timer", "nvidia,tegra20-timer";
> >>>> +               compatible = "nvidia,tegra210-timer", "nvidia,tegra30-timer", "nvidia,tegra20-timer";
> >>>
> >>> This compatibe should not be needed since the driver will have t210
> >>> compatible included.
> >>
> >> Yes, it should be fine to leave this as-is. I had included this before
> >> updating the driver, to get the driver to bind to this. Upstream Linux
> >> doesn't include "nvidia,tegra20-timer", so it only has the compatible
> >> string for Tegra210. I think that's slightly better because the register
> >> interface isn't quite compatible. That's a separate issue and we can do
> >> that in a follow-up patch.
> >>
> >>>
> >>>>                 reg = <0x0 0x60005000 0x0 0x400>;
> >>>>                 interrupts = <GIC_SPI 0 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>,
> >>>>                              <GIC_SPI 1 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>,
> >>>> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-tegra/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mach-tegra/Kconfig
> >>>> index cc3f00e50128..b50eec5b8c9b 100644
> >>>> --- a/arch/arm/mach-tegra/Kconfig
> >>>> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-tegra/Kconfig
> >>>> @@ -136,6 +136,7 @@ config TEGRA210
> >>>>         select TEGRA_PINCTRL
> >>>>         select TEGRA_PMC
> >>>>         select TEGRA_PMC_SECURE
> >>>> +       select TEGRA_TIMER
> >>>>
> >>>>  config TEGRA186
> >>>>         bool "Tegra186 family"
> >>>> diff --git a/drivers/timer/tegra-timer.c b/drivers/timer/tegra-timer.c
> >>>> index d2d163cf3fef..235532ba8926 100644
> >>>> --- a/drivers/timer/tegra-timer.c
> >>>> +++ b/drivers/timer/tegra-timer.c
> >>>> @@ -58,17 +58,26 @@ static notrace u64 tegra_timer_get_count(struct udevice *dev)
> >>>>  static int tegra_timer_probe(struct udevice *dev)
> >>>>  {
> >>>>         struct timer_dev_priv *uc_priv = dev_get_uclass_priv(dev);
> >>>> +       enum clock_osc_freq freq;
> >>>>         u32 usec_config, value;
> >>>>
> >>>>         /* Timer rate has to be set unconditionally */
> >>>>         uc_priv->clock_rate = TEGRA_TIMER_RATE;
> >>>>
> >>>> +       /*
> >>>> +        * The microsecond timer runs off of clk_m on Tegra210, and clk_m
> >>>> +        * runs at half the OSC, so fake this up.
> >>>> +        */
> >>>> +       freq = clock_get_osc_freq();
> >>>> +       if (freq == CLOCK_OSC_FREQ_38_4)
> >>>> +               freq = CLOCK_OSC_FREQ_19_2;
> >>>> +
> >>>
> >>> May you confirm that ALL known T210 devices use 19.2MHz as calibration
> >>> clock for timer?
> >>
> >> According to the Tegra210 TRM, the TIMERUS depends on the rate of clk_m
> >> and clk_m is derived from OSC and either divided by 1, 2, 3 or 4. The
> >> TRM goes on to say that:
> >>
> >>      The expectation is that this CLK_M_DIVISOR will only be changed
> >>      once after powering VDD_SOC on in cold boot/LP0 exit path. So
> >>      these sequences are verified with an oscillator clock of 38.4
> >>      MHz; div2 setting of the CLK_M divisor must be used. The result
> >>      is 19.2 MHz clk_m.
> >>
> >> And then it says:
> >>
> >>      Note: Div2 is the recommended clk_m divisor value. Do not use
> >>      any other value.
> >>
> >> This is from Section 5.1.2 "Clk_m Divisor" of the Tegra210 TRM.
> >>
> >>> If yes I can set this change in simpler as a separate commit or
> >>> including into existing patches.
> >>
> >> Anything you have in mind? I tried a couple of variations to the above
> >> and they all failed because in other places it's important that OSC is
> >> recognized as running at 38.4 MHz. If not, then other PLLs will not
> >> work properly and even basic things like the debug UART won't work.
> >>
> >> Technically the right thing to do would be to base the USEC config off
> >> the clk_m rate. We didn't do that back at the time, IIRC, because most
> >> of the clock infrastructure didn't exist, but it might be possible to
> >> achieve this today. I kept the above because it is still a bit simpler
> >> and as the TRM suggests nobody should be using anything other than the
> >> div2 setting for clk_m. I'm certainly not aware of any devices that do
> >> something different. And U-Boot has always had this assumption as well,
> >> so I think it's safe to use.
> >
> > Am I understanding correctly that for T210 we can/should use
> > clk_m_get_rate() instead of clock_get_osc_freq() in tegra_timer_probe()?
> > Have you tested this option?
>
> Although, looking at the kernel code, I see that clk_m is the parent
> clock for timer on all SoCs. Hence replacing clock_get_osc_freq() with
> clk_m_get_rate() should be the proper solution and then no T210-specific
> workarounds are needed.
>


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