[PATCH] ARM: dts: am335x-pocketbeagle: choose tick-timer

Commit 4b2be78ab66c ("time: Fix get_ticks being non-monotonic") requires '/chosen/tick-timer' in device-tree. Otherwise we get:
U-Boot 2023.07.02 (Jul 11 2023 - 15:20:44 +0000)
CPU : AM335X-GP rev 2.1 Model: TI AM335x PocketBeagle DRAM: 512 MiB Core: 154 devices, 16 uclasses, devicetree: separate Could not initialize timer (err -19)
resetting ...
Suggested-by: Pierre Lebleu pierre.lebleu@pile-engineering.com Signed-off-by: Trevor Woerner twoerner@gmail.com --- arch/arm/dts/am335x-pocketbeagle.dts | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm/dts/am335x-pocketbeagle.dts b/arch/arm/dts/am335x-pocketbeagle.dts index b379e3a5570d..02e3aac56064 100644 --- a/arch/arm/dts/am335x-pocketbeagle.dts +++ b/arch/arm/dts/am335x-pocketbeagle.dts @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
chosen { stdout-path = &uart0; + tick-timer = &timer2; };
leds {

On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 10:26 AM Trevor Woerner twoerner@gmail.com wrote:
Commit 4b2be78ab66c ("time: Fix get_ticks being non-monotonic") requires '/chosen/tick-timer' in device-tree. Otherwise we get:
U-Boot 2023.07.02 (Jul 11 2023 - 15:20:44 +0000) CPU : AM335X-GP rev 2.1 Model: TI AM335x PocketBeagle DRAM: 512 MiB Core: 154 devices, 16 uclasses, devicetree: separate Could not initialize timer (err -19) resetting ...
Suggested-by: Pierre Lebleu pierre.lebleu@pile-engineering.com Signed-off-by: Trevor Woerner twoerner@gmail.com
Tested-by: Robert Nelson robertcnelson@gmail.com
arch/arm/dts/am335x-pocketbeagle.dts | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm/dts/am335x-pocketbeagle.dts b/arch/arm/dts/am335x-pocketbeagle.dts index b379e3a5570d..02e3aac56064 100644 --- a/arch/arm/dts/am335x-pocketbeagle.dts +++ b/arch/arm/dts/am335x-pocketbeagle.dts @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
chosen { stdout-path = &uart0;
tick-timer = &timer2; }; leds {
-- 2.41.0.327.gaa9166bcc0ba
Thanks for posting this Trevor, I'm also running with this change..
Regards,

On 11:25-20230830, Trevor Woerner wrote:
Commit 4b2be78ab66c ("time: Fix get_ticks being non-monotonic") requires '/chosen/tick-timer' in device-tree. Otherwise we get:
U-Boot 2023.07.02 (Jul 11 2023 - 15:20:44 +0000)
CPU : AM335X-GP rev 2.1 Model: TI AM335x PocketBeagle DRAM: 512 MiB Core: 154 devices, 16 uclasses, devicetree: separate Could not initialize timer (err -19)
resetting ...
Suggested-by: Pierre Lebleu pierre.lebleu@pile-engineering.com Signed-off-by: Trevor Woerner twoerner@gmail.com
arch/arm/dts/am335x-pocketbeagle.dts | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm/dts/am335x-pocketbeagle.dts b/arch/arm/dts/am335x-pocketbeagle.dts index b379e3a5570d..02e3aac56064 100644 --- a/arch/arm/dts/am335x-pocketbeagle.dts +++ b/arch/arm/dts/am335x-pocketbeagle.dts @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
chosen { stdout-path = &uart0;
tick-timer = &timer2;
};
leds {
-- 2.41.0.327.gaa9166bcc0ba
Does enabling CONFIG_SYS_ARCH_TIMER solve this?

On Fri 2023-09-08 @ 12:36:17 PM, Nishanth Menon wrote:
On 11:25-20230830, Trevor Woerner wrote:
Commit 4b2be78ab66c ("time: Fix get_ticks being non-monotonic") requires '/chosen/tick-timer' in device-tree. Otherwise we get:
U-Boot 2023.07.02 (Jul 11 2023 - 15:20:44 +0000)
CPU : AM335X-GP rev 2.1 Model: TI AM335x PocketBeagle DRAM: 512 MiB Core: 154 devices, 16 uclasses, devicetree: separate Could not initialize timer (err -19)
resetting ...
Suggested-by: Pierre Lebleu pierre.lebleu@pile-engineering.com Signed-off-by: Trevor Woerner twoerner@gmail.com
arch/arm/dts/am335x-pocketbeagle.dts | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm/dts/am335x-pocketbeagle.dts b/arch/arm/dts/am335x-pocketbeagle.dts index b379e3a5570d..02e3aac56064 100644 --- a/arch/arm/dts/am335x-pocketbeagle.dts +++ b/arch/arm/dts/am335x-pocketbeagle.dts @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
chosen { stdout-path = &uart0;
tick-timer = &timer2;
};
leds {
-- 2.41.0.327.gaa9166bcc0ba
Does enabling CONFIG_SYS_ARCH_TIMER solve this?
Enabling CONFIG_SYS_ARCH_TIMER causes the following compile error:
| arm-oe-linux-gnueabi-ld.bfd: arch/arm/cpu/armv7/arch_timer.o: in function `timer_init': | /z/build-master/pocketbeagle/build/tmp-glibc/work/pocketbeagle-oe-linux-gnueabi/u-boot/2023.07.02/git/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/arch_timer.c:29: multiple definition of `timer_init'; arch/arm/mach-omap2/timer.o:/z/build-master/pocketbeagle/build/tmp-glibc/work/pocketbeagle-oe-linux-gnueabi/u-boot/2023.07.02/git/arch/arm/mach-omap2/timer.c:44: first defined here | arm-oe-linux-gnueabi-ld.bfd: arch/arm/cpu/armv7/arch_timer.o: in function `get_ticks': | /z/build-master/pocketbeagle/build/tmp-glibc/work/pocketbeagle-oe-linux-gnueabi/u-boot/2023.07.02/git/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/arch_timer.c:44: multiple definition of `get_ticks'; arch/arm/mach-omap2/timer.o:/z/build-master/pocketbeagle/build/tmp-glibc/work/pocketbeagle-oe-linux-gnueabi/u-boot/2023.07.02/git/arch/arm/mach-omap2/timer.c:97: first defined here | arm-oe-linux-gnueabi-ld.bfd: arch/arm/cpu/armv7/arch_timer.o: in function `get_tbclk': | /z/build-master/pocketbeagle/build/tmp-glibc/work/pocketbeagle-oe-linux-gnueabi/u-boot/2023.07.02/git/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/arch_timer.c:63: multiple definition of `get_tbclk'; arch/arm/mach-omap2/timer.o:/z/build-master/pocketbeagle/build/tmp-glibc/work/pocketbeagle-oe-linux-gnueabi/u-boot/2023.07.02/git/arch/arm/mach-omap2/timer.c:108: first defined here
Without CONFIG_SYS_ARCH_TIMER, the functions timer_init(), get_ticks(), and get_tbclk() are defined in arch/arm/mach-omap2/timer.c. When CONFIG_SYS_ARCH_TIMER is defined, it also pulls in the file arch/arm/cpu/armv7/arch_timer.c.
There is a config option, CONFIG_TIMER, that controls the inclusion of arch/arm/mach-omap2/timer.c, but it is unconditional during SPL:
arch/arm/mach-omap2/Makefile ... 12 ifeq ($(CONFIG_TIMER),) 13 obj-y += timer.o 14 else 15 ifdef CONFIG_SPL_BUILD 16 obj-y += timer.o 17 endif 18 endif ...
So whether CONFIG_TIMER is defined or not, a compile error will result if CONFIG_SYS_ARCH_TIMER is also defined.
Getting the code to compile with CONFIG_SYS_ARCH_TIMER would require a deeper reworking of the configuration/Make logic in order to swap out the functions in arch/arm/mach-omap2/timer.c for the ones in arch/arm/cpu/armv7/arch_timer.c. The definitions of those functions in both those locations are quite different, so even after getting the build to work there's no guarantee the arch functions would work.
Best regards, Trevor

On 09:27-20230909, Trevor Woerner wrote:
On Fri 2023-09-08 @ 12:36:17 PM, Nishanth Menon wrote:
On 11:25-20230830, Trevor Woerner wrote:
Commit 4b2be78ab66c ("time: Fix get_ticks being non-monotonic") requires '/chosen/tick-timer' in device-tree. Otherwise we get:
U-Boot 2023.07.02 (Jul 11 2023 - 15:20:44 +0000)
CPU : AM335X-GP rev 2.1 Model: TI AM335x PocketBeagle DRAM: 512 MiB Core: 154 devices, 16 uclasses, devicetree: separate Could not initialize timer (err -19)
resetting ...
Suggested-by: Pierre Lebleu pierre.lebleu@pile-engineering.com Signed-off-by: Trevor Woerner twoerner@gmail.com
arch/arm/dts/am335x-pocketbeagle.dts | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm/dts/am335x-pocketbeagle.dts b/arch/arm/dts/am335x-pocketbeagle.dts index b379e3a5570d..02e3aac56064 100644 --- a/arch/arm/dts/am335x-pocketbeagle.dts +++ b/arch/arm/dts/am335x-pocketbeagle.dts @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
chosen { stdout-path = &uart0;
tick-timer = &timer2;
};
leds {
-- 2.41.0.327.gaa9166bcc0ba
Does enabling CONFIG_SYS_ARCH_TIMER solve this?
[...]
Getting the code to compile with CONFIG_SYS_ARCH_TIMER would require a deeper reworking of the configuration/Make logic in order to swap out the functions in arch/arm/mach-omap2/timer.c for the ones in arch/arm/cpu/armv7/arch_timer.c. The definitions of those functions in both those locations are quite different, so even after getting the build to work there's no guarantee the arch functions would work.
The difference is using SoC level dmtimer vs cpu level arch timer. Either way, it will be good to send this upstream kernel.org.
Looking at the trm[1], it looks like arch timer isn't there for cortex-a8?
[1] https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0344/latest/
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Nishanth Menon
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Robert Nelson
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Trevor Woerner