Re: [PATCH] powerpc/time: use feature fixup in __USE_RTC() instead of cpu feature.

Christophe Leroy [off-list ref] writes:

Le 26/08/2019 à 13:41, Michael Ellerman a écrit :

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Christophe Leroy [off-list ref] writes:

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sched_clock(), used by printk(), calls __USE_RTC() to know
whether to use realtime clock or timebase.

__USE_RTC() uses cpu_has_feature() which is initialised by
machine_init(). Before machine_init(), __USE_RTC() returns true,
leading to a program check exception on CPUs not having realtime
clock.

In order to be able to use printk() earlier, use feature fixup.
Feature fixups are applies in early_init(), enabling the use of
printk() earlier.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <redacted>
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  arch/powerpc/include/asm/time.h | 9 ++++++++-
  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

The other option would be just to make this a compile time decision, eg.
add CONFIG_PPC_601 and use that to gate whether we use RTC.

Euh ... yes OK, why not. And that would help simplify many places in the 
code. I can propose something in that direction, but it will be a bigger 
change.

Thanks.

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Given how many 601 users there are, maybe 1?, I think that would be a
simpler option and avoids complicating the code / binary for everyone
else.

However this patch doesn't complicate things more than it was with 
cpu_has_feature() which does exactly the same but using static keys, 
does it ?

It's more complicated in that it's not using cpu_has_feature() it's
doing some custom thing that is not used anywhere else. But yeah I guess
it's not much extra complication.

cheers