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[v3,8/8] clocksource/drivers/tegra: Set up maximum-ticks limit properly

Message ID 20190618140358.13148-9-digetx@gmail.com
State Deferred
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Series Few more cleanups for tegra-timer | expand

Commit Message

Dmitry Osipenko June 18, 2019, 2:03 p.m. UTC
Tegra's timer has 29 bits for the counter and for the "load" register
which sets counter to a load-value. The counter's value is lower than
the actual value by 1 because it starts to decrement after one tick,
hence the maximum number of ticks that hardware can handle equals to
29 bits + 1.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/clocksource/timer-tegra.c | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Jon Hunter June 18, 2019, 5:52 p.m. UTC | #1
On 18/06/2019 15:03, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
> Tegra's timer has 29 bits for the counter and for the "load" register
> which sets counter to a load-value. The counter's value is lower than
> the actual value by 1 because it starts to decrement after one tick,
> hence the maximum number of ticks that hardware can handle equals to
> 29 bits + 1.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/clocksource/timer-tegra.c | 10 +++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/timer-tegra.c b/drivers/clocksource/timer-tegra.c
> index b84324288749..355b29ff6362 100644
> --- a/drivers/clocksource/timer-tegra.c
> +++ b/drivers/clocksource/timer-tegra.c
> @@ -137,9 +137,17 @@ static int tegra_timer_setup(unsigned int cpu)
>  	irq_force_affinity(to->clkevt.irq, cpumask_of(cpu));
>  	enable_irq(to->clkevt.irq);
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * Tegra's timer uses n+1 scheme for the counter, i.e. timer will
> +	 * fire after one tick if 0 is loaded and thus minimum number of
> +	 * ticks is 1. In result both of the clocksource's tick limits are
> +	 * higher than a minimum and maximum that hardware register can
> +	 * take by 1, this is then taken into account by set_next_event
> +	 * callback.
> +	 */
>  	clockevents_config_and_register(&to->clkevt, timer_of_rate(to),
>  					1, /* min */
> -					0x1fffffff); /* 29 bits */
> +					0x1fffffff + 1); /* max 29 bits + 1 */
>  
>  	return 0;
>  }
> 


Acked-by: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>

Cheers
Jon
Thierry Reding June 19, 2019, 8:19 a.m. UTC | #2
On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 05:03:58PM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
> Tegra's timer has 29 bits for the counter and for the "load" register
> which sets counter to a load-value. The counter's value is lower than
> the actual value by 1 because it starts to decrement after one tick,
> hence the maximum number of ticks that hardware can handle equals to
> 29 bits + 1.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/clocksource/timer-tegra.c | 10 +++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Acked-by: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/timer-tegra.c b/drivers/clocksource/timer-tegra.c
index b84324288749..355b29ff6362 100644
--- a/drivers/clocksource/timer-tegra.c
+++ b/drivers/clocksource/timer-tegra.c
@@ -137,9 +137,17 @@  static int tegra_timer_setup(unsigned int cpu)
 	irq_force_affinity(to->clkevt.irq, cpumask_of(cpu));
 	enable_irq(to->clkevt.irq);
 
+	/*
+	 * Tegra's timer uses n+1 scheme for the counter, i.e. timer will
+	 * fire after one tick if 0 is loaded and thus minimum number of
+	 * ticks is 1. In result both of the clocksource's tick limits are
+	 * higher than a minimum and maximum that hardware register can
+	 * take by 1, this is then taken into account by set_next_event
+	 * callback.
+	 */
 	clockevents_config_and_register(&to->clkevt, timer_of_rate(to),
 					1, /* min */
-					0x1fffffff); /* 29 bits */
+					0x1fffffff + 1); /* max 29 bits + 1 */
 
 	return 0;
 }