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ARC: Timers/counters/delay management
authorVineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Fri, 18 Jan 2013 09:42:18 +0000 (15:12 +0530)
committerVineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Mon, 11 Feb 2013 14:30:39 +0000 (20:00 +0530)
commitd8005e6b95268cbb50db3773d5f180c32a9434fe
tree1e27f00970c3612521a4d29146948ef4cec05586
parentbf90e1eab682dcb79b7765989fb65835ce9d6165
ARC: Timers/counters/delay management

ARC700 includes 2 in-core 32bit timers TIMER0 and TIMER1.
Both have exactly same capabilies.

* programmable to count from TIMER<n>_CNT to TIMER<n>_LIMIT
* for count 0 and LIMIT ~1, provides a free-running counter by
    auto-wrapping when limit is reached.
* optionally interrupt when LIMIT is reached (oneshot event semantics)
* rearming the interrupt provides periodic semantics
* run at CPU clk

ARC Linux uses TIMER0 for clockevent (periodic/oneshot) and TIMER1 for
clocksource (free-running clock).

Newer cores provide RTSC insn which gives a 64bit cpu clk snapshot hence
is more apt for clocksource when available.

SMP poses a bit of challenge for global timekeeping clocksource /
sched_clock() backend:
 -TIMER1 based local clocks are out-of-sync hence can't be used
  (thus we default to jiffies based cs as well as sched_clock() one/both
  of which platform can override with it's specific hardware assist)
 -RTSC is only allowed in SMP if it's cross-core-sync (Kconfig glue
  ensures that) and thus usable for both requirements.

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
arch/arc/include/asm/arcregs.h
arch/arc/include/asm/clk.h [new file with mode: 0644]
arch/arc/include/asm/delay.h [new file with mode: 0644]
arch/arc/include/asm/irq.h
arch/arc/include/asm/timex.h [new file with mode: 0644]
arch/arc/kernel/clk.c [new file with mode: 0644]
arch/arc/kernel/time.c [new file with mode: 0644]