On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Mark Salter <msal...@redhat.com> wrote:
> Using Linus' tree from this morning, I am hitting:
>
> [ 0.000000] BUG: failure at
> ./arch/arm64/include/asm/arch_timer.h:112/arch_counter_get_cntpct!
>
> This is triggered by commit 0b46b8a718 ("clocksource: arch_timer: Fix
> code to use physical timers when requested") which addresses an armv7
> problem. Arm64 wants to always use a virtual timer. I used this to avoid
> the BUG and get a booting kernel:
>
> diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c
> b/drivers/clocksource/arm_arch
> index 71846f9..4d8a01e 100644
> --- a/drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c
> +++ b/drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c
> @@ -468,7 +468,7 @@ static void __init arch_counter_register(unsigned type)
>
> /* Register the CP15 based counter if we have one */
> if (type & ARCH_CP15_TIMER) {
> - if (arch_timer_use_virtual)
> + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARM64) || arch_timer_use_virtual)
> arch_timer_read_counter = arch_counter_get_cntvct;
> else
> arch_timer_read_counter = arch_counter_get_cntpct;
>
>
Yes Catalin has prepared a similar patch:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/5468031/
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