Re: RFC: [PATCH] clocksource: tcb: fix min_delta calculation

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Thu Apr 25 2013 - 10:19:06 EST


On Thu, 25 Apr 2013, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote:

> On 04/23/2013 03:08 PM, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote:
> > The commit
> >
> > 77cc982 clocksource: use clockevents_config_and_register() where possible
> >
> > switches from manually calculating min_delta_ns (and others) and
> > clockevents_register_device() to automatic calculation via
> > clockevents_config_and_register(). During this conversation the "+ 1" in
> >
> > min_delta_ns = clockevent_delta2ns(1, &clkevt.clkevt) + 1;
> >
> > was lost. This leads to problems with schedule_delayed_work() with a delay of
> > "1". Resulting in the work not scheduled in time.
> >
> > This patch fixes the problem by increasing the min_delta to "2" ticks.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Who will take care of this patch?

If you had cc'ed me in the first place ...

> Marc
>
> > ---
> > drivers/clocksource/tcb_clksrc.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/tcb_clksrc.c b/drivers/clocksource/tcb_clksrc.c
> > index 8a61872..7cf6dc7 100644
> > --- a/drivers/clocksource/tcb_clksrc.c
> > +++ b/drivers/clocksource/tcb_clksrc.c
> > @@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ static void __init setup_clkevents(struct atmel_tc *tc, int clk32k_divisor_idx)
> >
> > clkevt.clkevt.cpumask = cpumask_of(0);
> >
> > - clockevents_config_and_register(&clkevt.clkevt, 32768, 1, 0xffff);
> > + clockevents_config_and_register(&clkevt.clkevt, 32768, 2, 0xffff);
> >
> > setup_irq(irq, &tc_irqaction);
> > }
> >
>
>
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