Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] arm64: Early boot time stamps

From: Pavel Tatashin
Date: Tue Nov 20 2018 - 10:03:34 EST


On 18-11-20 14:55:23, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> > Yeah, I saw 56 is used in arm_arch_timer.c, but I could not find where
> > this minimum is defined in aarch64 specs. I will change it to 56.
>
> See D10.1.2 (The system counter) in the ARM ARM[1], which says:
>
> <quote>
> The Generic Timer provides a system counter with the following
> specification:
> Width At least 56 bits wide.
> The value returned by any 64-bit read of the counter is
> zero-extended to 64 bits.
> </quote>
>
> This is not AArch64-specific though, and 32bit systems implementing the
> generic timers have the exact same requirements.

Thank you, makes sense. I was thinking there could be AArch64 specific
minimum limit.

>
> > I will send v2 soon.
>
> Please wait a bit and give others a chance to review this too.

I already sent, but will wait in the future before sending v3.

>
> Thanks,
>
> M.
>
> [1] https://static.docs.arm.com/ddi0487/da/DDI0487D_a_armv8_arm.pdf
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