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riscv: clocksource: Fix stimecmp update hazard on RV32

On RV32, updating the 64-bit stimecmp (or vstimecmp) CSR requires two
separate 32-bit writes. A race condition exists if the timer triggers
during these two writes.

The RISC-V Privileged Specification (e.g., Section 3.2.1 for mtimecmp)
recommends a specific 3-step sequence to avoid spurious interrupts
when updating 64-bit comparison registers on 32-bit systems:

1. Set the low-order bits (stimecmp) to all ones (ULONG_MAX).
2. Set the high-order bits (stimecmph) to the desired value.
3. Set the low-order bits (stimecmp) to the desired value.

Current implementation writes the LSB first without ensuring a future
value, which may lead to a transient state where the 64-bit comparison
is incorrectly evaluated as "expired" by the hardware. This results in
spurious timer interrupts.

This patch adopts the spec-recommended 3-step sequence to ensure the
intermediate 64-bit state is never smaller than the current time.

Fixes: 9f7a8ff6391f ("RISC-V: Prefer sstc extension if available")
Signed-off-by: Naohiko Shimizu <naohiko.shimizu@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260104135938.524-2-naohiko.shimizu@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>

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Naohiko Shimizu and committed by
Paul Walmsley
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drivers/clocksource/timer-riscv.c
··· 50 50 51 51 if (static_branch_likely(&riscv_sstc_available)) { 52 52 #if defined(CONFIG_32BIT) 53 - csr_write(CSR_STIMECMP, next_tval & 0xFFFFFFFF); 53 + csr_write(CSR_STIMECMP, ULONG_MAX); 54 54 csr_write(CSR_STIMECMPH, next_tval >> 32); 55 + csr_write(CSR_STIMECMP, next_tval & 0xFFFFFFFF); 55 56 #else 56 57 csr_write(CSR_STIMECMP, next_tval); 57 58 #endif