From: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] ARM: Fix get_cycles() after delay_read_timer() conversion
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:43:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260819-fix-arm-get_cycles-v1-1-208bf07ac540@kernel.org> (raw)
After commit dfc256dac54c ("calibrate: Rework delay timer calibration"),
certain ARM configurations (such as multi_v5_defconfig) hang during
boot. The use of read_current_timer() in arch/arm's get_cycles() was
improperly converted to delay_read_timer(), resulting in get_cycles()
returning 0 even when the timer has been read or an uninitialized stack
value when delay_read_timer() returns false.
Flip the branches of the ternary condition to fix get_cycles().
Fixes: dfc256dac54c ("calibrate: Rework delay timer calibration")
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
---
arch/arm/include/asm/timex.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/timex.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/timex.h
index 94e40c19cfc5..4d31eab9dba2 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/timex.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/timex.h
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ typedef unsigned long cycles_t;
// Temporary workaround until timex.h is cleaned up
bool delay_read_timer(unsigned long *t);
-#define get_cycles() ({ cycles_t c; delay_read_timer(&c) ? 0 : c; })
+#define get_cycles() ({ cycles_t c; delay_read_timer(&c) ? c : 0; })
#define random_get_entropy() (((unsigned long)get_cycles()) ?: random_get_entropy_fallback())
#endif
---
base-commit: dfc256dac54c8b692110bf905c64cb130e15963d
change-id: 20260819-fix-arm-get_cycles-c83096ec81a9
Best regards,
--
Cheers,
Nathan
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