On 8/11/2012 3:17 AM, Marc Zyngier wrote:

On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 14:57:34 -0700, Rohit Vaswani
[off-list ref]
wrote:

quoted

Level triggered interrupt is deasserted when a new TVAL is written
only when the interrupt is unmasked. Make sure that the interrupt
is unmasked in CTL register before TVAL is written.
If this order is not followed, there are chances that on some
hardware you would not receive any timer interrupts.

Signed-off-by: Rohit Vaswani <redacted>
---
  arch/arm/kernel/arch_timer.c |    2 +-
  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/arch_timer.c b/arch/arm/kernel/arch_timer.c
index dd58035..1d0d9df 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/arch_timer.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/arch_timer.c

@@ -126,8 +126,8 @@ static int arch_timer_set_next_event(unsigned long

evt,

quoted

  	ctrl |= ARCH_TIMER_CTRL_ENABLE;
  	ctrl &= ~ARCH_TIMER_CTRL_IT_MASK;
  
-	arch_timer_reg_write(ARCH_TIMER_REG_TVAL, evt);
  	arch_timer_reg_write(ARCH_TIMER_REG_CTRL, ctrl);
+	arch_timer_reg_write(ARCH_TIMER_REG_TVAL, evt);

But by doing so, you're opening a window where TVAL can be negative (from
a previous timer trigger) and the interrupt unmasked, which would lead to
an immediate trigger, before TVAL is updated with the new value.

Does your hardware deassert the interrupt even when the enable bit is not
set? If so, would the following sequence work?

         ctrl &= ~(ARCH_TIMER_CTRL_ENABLE | ARCH_TIMER_CTRL_IT_MASK);
         arch_timer_reg_write(ARCH_TIMER_REG_CTRL, ctrl);

	arch_timer_reg_write(ARCH_TIMER_REG_TVAL, evt);

         ctrl |= ARCH_TIMER_CTRL_ENABLE;
         arch_timer_reg_write(ARCH_TIMER_REG_CTRL, ctrl);

Thanks,

         M.

Thanks Marc, this works. I will re-send the patch with these changes.

Thanks,
Rohit Vaswani

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