linux_dsm_epyc7002/arch/arm64/kernel
Lorenzo Pieralisi 9358d755bd arm64: kernel: initialize broadcast hrtimer based clock event device
On platforms implementing CPU power management, the CPUidle subsystem
can allow CPUs to enter idle states where local timers logic is lost on power
down. To keep the software timers functional the kernel relies on an
always-on broadcast timer to be present in the platform to relay the
interrupt signalling the timer expiries.

For platforms implementing CPU core gating that do not implement an always-on
HW timer or implement it in a broken way, this patch adds code to initialize
the kernel hrtimer based clock event device upon boot (which can be chosen as
tick broadcast device by the kernel).
It relies on a dynamically chosen CPU to be always powered-up. This CPU then
relays the timer interrupt to CPUs in deep-idle states through its HW local
timer device.

Having a CPU always-on has implications on power management platform
capabilities and makes CPUidle suboptimal, since at least a CPU is kept
always in a shallow idle state by the kernel to relay timer interrupts,
but at least leaves the kernel with a functional system with some working
power management capabilities.

The hrtimer based clock event device is unconditionally registered, but
has the lowest possible rating such that any broadcast-capable HW clock
event device present will be chosen in preference as the tick broadcast
device.

Reviewed-by: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
2014-05-30 17:48:13 +01:00
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vdso arm64: vdso: fix coarse clock handling 2014-02-05 11:55:30 +00:00
.gitignore arm64: Build infrastructure 2012-09-17 13:42:21 +01:00
arm64ksyms.c arm64: Add ftrace support 2014-05-29 09:08:08 +01:00
asm-offsets.c arm64: kernel: cpu_{suspend/resume} implementation 2013-12-16 17:17:31 +00:00
cpu_ops.c arm64: Slightly improve the warning on CPU0 enable-method 2013-10-31 16:37:26 +00:00
cputable.c arm64: add CPU_HOTPLUG infrastructure 2013-10-25 11:33:21 +01:00
debug-monitors.c arm64: debug: remove noisy, pointless warning 2014-04-25 16:46:50 +01:00
early_printk.c arm64: fixmap: fix missing sub-page offset for earlyprintk 2014-05-03 22:20:31 +01:00
entry-fpsimd.S arm64: add support for kernel mode NEON in interrupt context 2014-05-08 11:31:57 +02:00
entry-ftrace.S arm64: ftrace: Add dynamic ftrace support 2014-05-29 09:08:33 +01:00
entry.S 2014-05-15 for-3.16 pull request 2014-05-16 10:05:11 +01:00
fpsimd.c arm64: add support for kernel mode NEON in interrupt context 2014-05-08 11:31:57 +02:00
ftrace.c arm64: ftrace: Add dynamic ftrace support 2014-05-29 09:08:33 +01:00
head.S arm64: head: fix cache flushing and barriers in set_cpu_boot_mode_flag 2014-05-09 17:04:12 +01:00
hw_breakpoint.c arm64: is_compat_task is defined both in asm/compat.h and linux/compat.h 2014-05-12 16:43:29 +01:00
hyp-stub.S arm64: add hypervisor stub 2012-12-05 11:26:49 +00:00
insn.c arm64: introduce aarch64_insn_gen_{nop|branch_imm}() helper functions 2014-01-08 15:21:29 +00:00
io.c arm64: Device specific operations 2012-09-17 13:42:04 +01:00
irq.c arm64: add CPU_HOTPLUG infrastructure 2013-10-25 11:33:21 +01:00
jump_label.c arm64, jump label: optimize jump label implementation 2014-01-08 15:23:53 +00:00
kgdb.c arm64: KGDB: Add step debugging support 2014-02-26 11:16:25 +00:00
kuser32.S arm64: atomics: fix use of acquire + release for full barrier semantics 2014-02-07 16:45:43 +00:00
Makefile arm64: ftrace: Add CALLER_ADDRx macros 2014-05-29 09:08:33 +01:00
module.c arm64: move encode_insn_immediate() from module.c to insn.c 2014-01-08 15:21:29 +00:00
perf_event.c arm64: fix !CONFIG_COMPAT build failures 2014-04-06 23:25:04 +01:00
perf_regs.c arm64: fix !CONFIG_COMPAT build failures 2014-04-06 23:25:04 +01:00
process.c arm64: Fix deadlock scenario with smp_send_stop() 2014-05-16 18:03:33 +01:00
psci.c arm64: remove return value form psci_init() 2014-02-28 14:14:53 +00:00
ptrace.c arm64: ftrace: Add system call tracepoint 2014-05-29 09:08:33 +01:00
return_address.c arm64: ftrace: Add CALLER_ADDRx macros 2014-05-29 09:08:33 +01:00
setup.c arm64: Clean up the default pgprot setting 2014-05-09 15:53:37 +01:00
signal32.c 2014-05-15 for-3.16 pull request 2014-05-16 10:05:11 +01:00
signal.c 2014-05-15 for-3.16 pull request 2014-05-16 10:05:11 +01:00
sleep.S arm64: kernel: cpu_{suspend/resume} implementation 2013-12-16 17:17:31 +00:00
smp_spin_table.c arm64: Remove boot thread synchronisation for spin-table release method 2014-05-09 15:47:46 +01:00
smp.c arm64: Support arch_irq_work_raise() via self IPIs 2014-05-16 17:42:21 +01:00
stacktrace.c arm64: Add 'notrace' attribute to unwind_frame() for ftrace 2014-05-29 09:04:31 +01:00
suspend.c arm64: kernel: fix per-cpu offset restore on resume 2014-01-24 14:27:40 +00:00
sys32.S arm64: compat: correct register concatenation for syscall wrappers 2013-10-25 15:59:36 +01:00
sys_compat.c compat: generic compat_sys_sched_rr_get_interval() implementation 2012-12-17 17:15:18 -08:00
sys.c arm64: switch to generic sigaltstack 2013-02-14 09:17:29 -05:00
time.c arm64: kernel: initialize broadcast hrtimer based clock event device 2014-05-30 17:48:13 +01:00
topology.c arm64: topology: Add support for topology DT bindings 2014-05-16 17:12:41 +01:00
traps.c arm64: Provide read/write fault information in compat signal handlers 2014-05-09 15:47:47 +01:00
vdso.c arm64: vdso: clean up vdso_pagelist initialization 2014-02-26 11:16:30 +00:00
vmlinux.lds.S arm64: Fix linker script entry point 2014-05-23 15:32:03 +01:00