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    clocksource: mips-gic-timer: Mark GIC timer as unstable if ref clock changes · 7d7de1a6
    Serge Semin authored
    Currently clocksource framework doesn't support the clocks with variable
    frequency. Since MIPS GIC timer ticks rate might be unstable on some
    platforms, we must make sure that it justifies the clocksource
    requirements. MIPS GIC timer is incremented with the CPU cluster reference
    clocks rate. So in case if CPU frequency changes, the MIPS GIC tick rate
    changes synchronously. Due to this the clocksource subsystem can't rely on
    the timer to measure system clocks anymore. This commit marks the MIPS GIC
    based clocksource as unstable if reference clock (normally it's a CPU
    reference clocks) rate changes. The clocksource will execute a watchdog
    thread, which lowers the MIPS GIC timer rating to zero and fallbacks to a
    new stable one.
    
    Note we don't need to set the CLOCK_SOURCE_MUST_VERIFY flag to the MIPS
    GIC clocksource since normally the timer is stable. The only reason why
    it gets unstable is due to the ref clock rate change, which event we
    detect here in the driver by means of the clocks event notifier.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSerge Semin <Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru>
    Cc: Alexey Malahov <Alexey.Malahov@baikalelectronics.ru>
    Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
    Cc: Paul Burton <paulburton@kernel.org>
    Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
    Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
    Cc: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
    Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
    Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>
    Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
    Cc: linux-rtc@vger.kernel.org
    Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200521204818.25436-9-Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru
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