For the old minimum of a single tick a value of zero would be programmed
into the init value register which in the BCM1250/BCM1125/BCM1125H User
Manual in the Timer Special Cases section is documented to have
UNPREDICTABLE effect.

Observable sympthoms of this bug were hangs of several seconds on the
console during bootup and later if both dyntick and highres timer options
were activated.

In theory contiguous mode of the timers is also affected but in an act of
hopeless lack of realism I'll assume nobody will ever configure a KERNEL
for HZ > 500kHz but if so I leave that to evolution to sort out.
Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

Or strange things will happen.
Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

Signed-off-by: NThiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>
Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

They break the timer interrupt initialization and only seem to be a kludge
for initialization happening in the wrong order.  Further testing done by
Thiemo confirms the suspicion that the other invocations also seem to have
useless.
Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

The BCM148 has 4 cores but there are also just 4 generic timers available
so use the ZBbus cycle counter instead of it.  In addition the ZBbus
counter also offers a much higher resolution and 64-bit counting so I'm
considering a later complete conversion to it once I figure out if all
members of the Sibyte SOC family support it - the docs seem to agree but
the headers files seem to disagree ...
Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

Fix some typo introduced on clockevent conversion.
Signed-off-by: NAtsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

Make clocksource_mips public and get rid of mips_hpt_read,
mips_hpt_mask.
Signed-off-by: NAtsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

Since we already moved to GENERIC_TIME, we should implement alternatives
of old do_gettimeoffset routines to get sub-jiffies resolution from
gettimeofday().  This patch includes:

 * MIPS clocksource support (based on works by Manish Lachwani).
 * remove unused gettimeoffset routines and related codes.
 * remove unised 64bit do_div64_32().
 * simplify mips_hpt_init. (no argument needed, __init tag)
 * simplify c0_hpt_timer_init. (no need to write to c0_count)
 * remove some hpt_init routines.
 * mips_hpt_mask variable to specify bitmask of hpt value.
 * convert jmr3927_do_gettimeoffset to jmr3927_hpt_read.
 * convert ip27_do_gettimeoffset to ip27_hpt_read.
 * convert bcm1480_do_gettimeoffset to bcm1480_hpt_read.
 * simplify sb1250 hpt functions. (no need to subtract and shift)
Signed-off-by: NAtsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

Signed-off-by: NJörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

    
From Dave Johnson <djohnson+linuxmips@sw.starentnetworks.com>:
    
sb1250_gettimeoffset() simply reads the current cpu 0 timer remaining
value, however once this counter reaches 0 and the interrupt is raised,
it immediately resets and begins to count down again.
    
If sb1250_gettimeoffset() is called on cpu 1 via do_gettimeofday() after
the timer has reset but prior to cpu 0 processing the interrupt and
taking write_seqlock() in timer_interrupt() it will return a full value
(or close to it) causing time to jump backwards 1ms. Once cpu 0 handles
the interrupt and timer_interrupt() gets far enough along it will jump
forward 1ms.
    
Fix this problem by implementing mips_hpt_*() on sb1250 using a spare
timer unrelated to the existing periodic interrupt timers. It runs at
1Mhz with a full 23bit counter.  This eliminated the custom
do_gettimeoffset() for sb1250 and allowed use of the generic
fixed_rate_gettimeoffset() using mips_hpt_*() and timerhi/timerlo.
Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

    
From Dave Johnson <djohnson+linuxmips@sw.starentnetworks.com>:
    
The timers need to be loaded with 1 less than the desired interval not
the interval itself.
Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!