drivers: clocksource: add support for ARM architected timer event stream
The ARM architected timer can generate events (used for waking up
CPUs executing the wfe instruction) at a frequency represented as a
power-of-2 divisor of the clock rate.
An event stream might be used:
- To implement wfe-based timeouts for userspace locking implementations.
- To impose a timeout on a wfe for safeguarding against any programming
error in case an expected event is not generated.
This patch computes the event stream frequency aiming for a period
of 100us between events. It uses ARM/ARM64 specific backends to configure
and enable the event stream.
Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
[sudeep: moving ARM/ARM64 changes into separate patches
and adding Kconfig option]
Signed-off-by: Sudeep KarkadaNagesha <sudeep.karkadanagesha@arm.com>
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