clocksource/drivers: Add CLINT timer driver
We add a separate CLINT timer driver for Linux RISC-V M-mode (i.e. RISC-V NoMMU kernel). The CLINT MMIO device provides three things: 1. 64bit free running counter register 2. 64bit per-CPU time compare registers 3. 32bit per-CPU inter-processor interrupt registers Unlike other timer devices, CLINT provides IPI registers along with timer registers. To use CLINT IPI registers, the CLINT timer driver provides IPI related callbacks to arch/riscv. Signed-off-by:Anup Patel <anup.patel@wdc.com> Tested-by:
Emil Renner Berhing <kernel@esmil.dk> Acked-by:
Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> Reviewed-by:
Atish Patra <atish.patra@wdc.com> Reviewed-by:
Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com> Signed-off-by:
Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
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- drivers/clocksource/Kconfig 9 additions, 0 deletionsdrivers/clocksource/Kconfig
- drivers/clocksource/Makefile 1 addition, 0 deletionsdrivers/clocksource/Makefile
- drivers/clocksource/timer-clint.c 226 additions, 0 deletionsdrivers/clocksource/timer-clint.c
- include/linux/cpuhotplug.h 1 addition, 0 deletionsinclude/linux/cpuhotplug.h
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