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>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.h b/include/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.h
index 8707dae4cee2..6d26b40cbf5d 100644
--- a/include/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.h
+++ b/include/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.h
@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ enum arch_timer_reg {
 #define ARCH_TIMER_USR_VT_ACCESS_EN	(1 << 8) /* virtual timer registers */
 #define ARCH_TIMER_USR_PT_ACCESS_EN	(1 << 9) /* physical timer registers */
 
+#define ARCH_TIMER_EVT_STREAM_FREQ	10000	/* 100us */
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_ARM_ARCH_TIMER
 
 extern u32 arch_timer_get_rate(void);