The Allwinner A64 SoCs suffers from an arch timer implementation erratum,
where sometimes the lower 11 bits of the counter value erroneously
become all 0's or all 1's [1]. This leads to sudden jumps, both forwards and
backwards, with the latter one often showing weird behaviour.
Port the workaround proposed for Linux to U-Boot and activate it for all
A64 boards.
This fixes crashes when accessing MMC devices (SD cards), caused by a
recent change to actually use the counter value for timeout checks.
Fixes: 5ff8e54888e4d26a352453564f7f599d29696dc9 ("sunxi: improve throughput
in the sunxi_mmc driver")
[1] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2018-May/576886.html
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przyw...@arm.com>
---
arch/arm/cpu/armv8/generic_timer.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
arch/arm/mach-sunxi/Kconfig | 4 ++++
2 files changed, 28 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/armv8/generic_timer.c
b/arch/arm/cpu/armv8/generic_timer.c
index 3d04fde650..c1706dcec1 100644
--- a/arch/arm/cpu/armv8/generic_timer.c
+++ b/arch/arm/cpu/armv8/generic_timer.c
@@ -46,6 +46,30 @@ unsigned long timer_read_counter(void)
return cntpct;
}
+#elif CONFIG_SUNXI_A64_TIMER_ERRATUM
+/*
+ * This erratum sometimes flips the lower 11 bits of the counter value
+ * to all 0's or all 1's, leading to jumps forwards or backwards.
+ * Backwards jumps might be interpreted all roll-overs and be treated as
+ * huge jumps forward.
+ * The workaround is to check whether the lower 11 bits of the counter are
+ * all 0 or all 1, then discard this value and read again.
+ * This occasionally discards valid values, but will catch all erroneous
+ * reads and fixes the problem reliably. Also this mostly requires only a
+ * single read, so does not have any significant overhead.
+ * The algorithm was conceived by Samuel Holland.
+ */
+unsigned long timer_read_counter(void)
+{
+ unsigned long cntpct;
+
+ isb();
+ do {
+ asm volatile("mrs %0, cntpct_el0" : "=r" (cntpct));
+ } while (((cntpct + 1) & GENMASK(10, 0)) <= 1);
+
+ return cntpct;
+}
#else
/*
* timer_read_counter() using the Arm Generic Timer (aka arch timer).
diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-sunxi/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mach-sunxi/Kconfig
index a3f7723028..3624a03947 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-sunxi/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-sunxi/Kconfig
@@ -84,6 +84,9 @@ config SUNXI_HIGH_SRAM
Chips using the latter setup are supposed to select this option to
adjust the addresses accordingly.
+config SUNXI_A64_TIMER_ERRATUM
+ bool
+
# Note only one of these may be selected at a time! But hidden choices are
# not supported by Kconfig
config SUNXI_GEN_SUN4I
@@ -270,6 +273,7 @@ config MACH_SUN50I
select SUNXI_DRAM_DW_32BIT
select FIT
select SPL_LOAD_FIT
+ select SUNXI_A64_TIMER_ERRATUM
config MACH_SUN50I_H5
bool "sun50i (Allwinner H5)"
--
2.14.4
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