CLOCKSOURCE: mips-gic-timer: Ensure GIC counter is running

Start the GIC counter after configuring the clocksource since there
are no guarantees the counter will be running after a CPU reset.

Signed-off-by: Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@imgtec.com>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/9595/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/mips-gic-timer.c b/drivers/clocksource/mips-gic-timer.c
index 3bd31b1321f6..16adbc1fa4c1 100644
--- a/drivers/clocksource/mips-gic-timer.c
+++ b/drivers/clocksource/mips-gic-timer.c
@@ -133,6 +133,9 @@ static void __init __gic_clocksource_init(void)
         clocksource_register_hz(&gic_clocksource, gic_frequency);
 
         gic_clockevent_init();
+
+        /* And finally start the counter */
+        gic_start_count();
 }
 
 void __init gic_clocksource_init(unsigned int frequency)