In order to measure the boot process, the timer should be switched on as
early in boot as possible. As well, the commit defines the get_cycles
macro, like the previous patches in this series, so that generic code is
aware that it's implemented by the platform, as is done on other archs.
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>
Cc: Stefan Kristiansson <stefan.kristiansson@saunalahti.fi>
Acked-by: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
{
return mfspr(SPR_TTCR);
}
+#define get_cycles get_cycles
/* This isn't really used any more */
#define CLOCK_TICK_RATE 1000
l.ori r3,r0,0x1
l.mtspr r0,r3,SPR_SR
+ /*
+ * Start the TTCR as early as possible, so that the RNG can make use of
+ * measurements of boot time from the earliest opportunity. Especially
+ * important is that the TTCR does not return zero by the time we reach
+ * rand_initialize().
+ */
+ l.movhi r3,hi(SPR_TTMR_CR)
+ l.mtspr r0,r3,SPR_TTMR
+
CLEAR_GPR(r1)
CLEAR_GPR(r2)
CLEAR_GPR(r3)