Re: [patch 2.6.25-rc2-git 2/2] atmel_tc clocksource/clockevent code

From: Haavard Skinnemoen
Date: Sun Feb 24 2008 - 13:21:32 EST


Again, sorry for the delay...it really sucks that I haven't been able
to look at this stuff closely until now. Hopefully a late review is
better than no review.

On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:28:37 -0800
David Brownell <david-b@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> +static cycle_t tc_get_cycles(void)
> +{
> + unsigned long flags;
> + u32 lower, upper;
> +
> + raw_local_irq_save(flags);

Why do you need to use the raw version?

> +retry:
> + upper = __raw_readl(tcaddr + ATMEL_TC_REG(1, CV));
> + lower = __raw_readl(tcaddr + ATMEL_TC_REG(0, CV));
> + if (upper != __raw_readl(tcaddr + ATMEL_TC_REG(1, CV)))
> + goto retry;

Did you just open-code a do/while loop using goto? ;-)

> +#ifdef CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
> +#define USE_TC_CLKEVT
> +#endif
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_AT91RM9200
> +/* The AT91rm9200 system timer is a oneshot-capable 32k timer that's
> + * always running ... configuring a TC channel to work the same way
> + * would just waste some power.
> + */
> +#undef USE_TC_CLKEVT
> +#endif
> +
> +#ifdef USE_TC_CLKEVT

Can't you just use #ifndef CONFIG_ARCH_AT91RM9200 and avoid the whole
ifdef/define/undef dance above?

> + case CLOCK_EVT_MODE_ONESHOT:
> + /* slow clock, count up to RC, then irq and stop */

Hmm. Do you really want to stop it? Won't you get better accuracy if
you let it run and program the next event as (prev_event + delta)?

> +static struct irqaction tc_irqaction = {
> + .name = "tc_clkevt",
> + .flags = IRQF_TIMER | IRQF_DISABLED,
> + .handler = ch2_irq,
> +};

I don't think you need to define this statically. You can call
request_irq() at arch_initcall() time.

> +static void __init setup_clkevents(struct platform_device *pdev,
> + struct clk *t0_clk, int clk32k_divisor_idx)
> +{
> + struct clk *t2_clk = clk_get(&pdev->dev, "t2_clk");
> + int irq;
> +
> + /* SOCs have either one IRQ and one clock for the whole
> + * TC block; or one each per channel. We use channel 2.
> + */
> + if (IS_ERR(t2_clk)) {
> + t2_clk = t0_clk;
> + irq = platform_get_irq(pdev, 0);
> + } else {
> + irq = platform_get_irq(pdev, 2);
> + clk_enable(t2_clk);
> + }

I don't think it is safe to assume that one clock per channel always
means one irq per channel as well...

What's wrong with

irq = platform_get_irq(pdev, 2);
if (irq < 0)
irq = platform_get_irq(pdev, 0);

?

> +config ATMEL_TCB_CLKSRC
> + bool "TC Block Clocksource"
> + depends on ATMEL_TCLIB && GENERIC_TIME
> + default y
> + help
> + Select this to get a high precision clocksource based on a
> + TC block with a 5+ MHz base clock rate. Two timer channels
> + are combined to make a single 32-bit timer.
> +
> + When GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS is defined, the third timer channel
> + may be used as a clock event device supporting oneshot mode
> + (delays of up to two seconds) based on the 32 KiHz clock.
> +
> +config ATMEL_TCB_CLKSRC_BLOCK
> + int
> + depends on ATMEL_TCB_CLKSRC
> + prompt "TC Block" if ARCH_AT91RM9200 || ARCH_AT91SAM9260 || CPU_AT32AP700X
> + default 0
> + range 0 1

Hmm...I don't like the direction this is going...

How about we make tcb_clksrc_init() global and call it from the
platform code with whatever TCB the platform thinks is appropriate?

Perhaps remove the prompt from ATMEL_TCB_CLKSRC and have the platform
select it as well? I certainly want to force this stuff on on the
AP7000...otherwise we'll just get lots of complaints that the thing is
using 4x more power than it's supposed to...

Haavard
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