clocksource: add common i8253 PIT clocksource

This is based upon both arch/arm/mach-footbridge/isa-timer.c and
arch/x86/kernel/i8253.c.

Acked-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 88 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/i8253.c b/drivers/clocksource/i8253.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..225c176
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/clocksource/i8253.c
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+/*
+ * i8253 PIT clocksource
+ */
+#include <linux/clocksource.h>
+#include <linux/init.h>
+#include <linux/io.h>
+#include <linux/spinlock.h>
+#include <linux/timex.h>
+
+#include <asm/i8253.h>
+
+/*
+ * Since the PIT overflows every tick, its not very useful
+ * to just read by itself. So use jiffies to emulate a free
+ * running counter:
+ */
+static cycle_t i8253_read(struct clocksource *cs)
+{
+	static int old_count;
+	static u32 old_jifs;
+	unsigned long flags;
+	int count;
+	u32 jifs;
+
+	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&i8253_lock, flags);
+	/*
+	 * Although our caller may have the read side of xtime_lock,
+	 * this is now a seqlock, and we are cheating in this routine
+	 * by having side effects on state that we cannot undo if
+	 * there is a collision on the seqlock and our caller has to
+	 * retry.  (Namely, old_jifs and old_count.)  So we must treat
+	 * jiffies as volatile despite the lock.  We read jiffies
+	 * before latching the timer count to guarantee that although
+	 * the jiffies value might be older than the count (that is,
+	 * the counter may underflow between the last point where
+	 * jiffies was incremented and the point where we latch the
+	 * count), it cannot be newer.
+	 */
+	jifs = jiffies;
+	outb_pit(0x00, PIT_MODE);	/* latch the count ASAP */
+	count = inb_pit(PIT_CH0);	/* read the latched count */
+	count |= inb_pit(PIT_CH0) << 8;
+
+	/* VIA686a test code... reset the latch if count > max + 1 */
+	if (count > LATCH) {
+		outb_pit(0x34, PIT_MODE);
+		outb_pit(PIT_LATCH & 0xff, PIT_CH0);
+		outb_pit(PIT_LATCH >> 8, PIT_CH0);
+		count = PIT_LATCH - 1;
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * It's possible for count to appear to go the wrong way for a
+	 * couple of reasons:
+	 *
+	 *  1. The timer counter underflows, but we haven't handled the
+	 *     resulting interrupt and incremented jiffies yet.
+	 *  2. Hardware problem with the timer, not giving us continuous time,
+	 *     the counter does small "jumps" upwards on some Pentium systems,
+	 *     (see c't 95/10 page 335 for Neptun bug.)
+	 *
+	 * Previous attempts to handle these cases intelligently were
+	 * buggy, so we just do the simple thing now.
+	 */
+	if (count > old_count && jifs == old_jifs)
+		count = old_count;
+
+	old_count = count;
+	old_jifs = jifs;
+
+	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&i8253_lock, flags);
+
+	count = (PIT_LATCH - 1) - count;
+
+	return (cycle_t)(jifs * PIT_LATCH) + count;
+}
+
+static struct clocksource i8253_cs = {
+	.name		= "pit",
+	.rating		= 110,
+	.read		= i8253_read,
+	.mask		= CLOCKSOURCE_MASK(32),
+};
+
+int __init clocksource_i8253_init(void)
+{
+	return clocksource_register_hz(&i8253_cs, PIT_TICK_RATE);
+}