Thread (27 messages) 27 messages, 5 authors, 2013-06-25

[PATCH v3 02/10] clocksource:arm_global_timer: Add ARM global timer support.

From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann)
Date: 2013-06-20 19:02:42
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On Thursday 20 June 2013, Srinivas KANDAGATLA wrote:
+static u64 gt_counter_read(void)
+{
+       u64 counter;
+       u32 lower;
+       u32 upper, old_upper;
+
+       upper = __raw_readl(gt_base + GT_COUNTER1);
+       do {
+               old_upper = upper;
+               lower = __raw_readl(gt_base + GT_COUNTER0);
+               upper = __raw_readl(gt_base + GT_COUNTER1);
+       } while (upper != old_upper);
+
+       counter = upper;
+       counter <<= 32;
+       counter |= lower;
+       return counter;
+}
Please replace __raw_readl etc with the non-__raw variants
throughout the code.

The __raw accessors are not endian safe and are not meant
for device drivers. If you are worried about latency from
extra barriers, use readl_relaxed().

	Arnd
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