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    Add build configuration for timer save/restore · 2da8d8bf
    Jeenu Viswambharan authored
    At present, non-secure timer register contents are saved and restored as
    part of world switch by BL3-1. This effectively means that the
    non-secure timer stops, and non-secure timer interrupts are prevented
    from asserting until BL3-1 switches back, introducing latency for
    non-secure services. Often, secure world might depend on alternate
    sources for secure interrupts (secure timer or platform timer) instead
    of non-secure timers, in which case this save and restore is
    unnecessary.
    
    This patch introduces a boolean build-time configuration NS_TIMER_SWITCH
    to choose whether or not to save and restore non-secure timer registers
    upon world switch. The default choice is made not to save and restore
    them.
    
    Fixes ARM-software/tf-issues#148
    
    Change-Id: I1b9d623606acb9797c3e0b02fb5ec7c0a414f37e
    2da8d8bf
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