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Commit 0d651e4e authored by Mark Rutland's avatar Mark Rutland
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clocksource: arch_timer: use virtual counters



Switching between reading the virtual or physical counters is
problematic, as some core code wants a view of time before we're fully
set up. Using a function pointer and switching the source after the
first read can make time appear to go backwards, and having a check in
the read function is an unfortunate block on what we want to be a fast
path.

Instead, this patch makes us always use the virtual counters. If we're a
guest, or don't have hyp mode, we'll use the virtual timers, and as such
don't care about CNTVOFF as long as it doesn't change in such a way as
to make time appear to travel backwards. As the guest will use the
virtual timers, a (potential) KVM host must use the physical timers
(which can wake up the host even if they fire while a guest is
executing), and hence a host must have CNTVOFF set to zero so as to have
a consistent view of time between the physical timers and virtual
counters.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMarc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarSantosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Cc: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
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