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From: schen@mvista.com (Steve Chen)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] arm: remove unused code in delay.S
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 03:26:06 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1253089566.3273.152.camel@linux-1lbu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m33a6nddvd.fsf@intrepid.localdomain>

On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 00:47 +0200, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> Steve Chen <schen@mvista.com> writes:
> 
> > If I know for sure that these are the processors that need that block of
> > code, your suggestion makes perfect sense.  Unfortunately, I don't know.
> 
> Then I wouldn't write "Accurate delays". "Different", maybe.
> "Accurate", we don't know.
You are right.  "Accurate delays" isn't appropriate.  Probably want
something along the lines of "try this and see if helps".

> 
> > My primary goals are
> >
> > 1.  Put a stop to this thread (so far I have failed miserably)
> > 2.  Document that block of code.
> > 3.  If it makes someone's life easier.. it would be a bonus.
> 
> Uncertain comments don't make life easier. Just write what's certain,
> or nothing if nothing is.
Makes sense.  Based on both yours and Marek's inputs, I changed the
wording.  The patch is below.

Document #if 0 code block in delay.S and make it selectable for compile.

Signed-off-by: Steve Chen <schen@mvista.com>

---

 arch/arm/Kconfig     |    8 ++++++++
 arch/arm/lib/delay.S |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index aef63c8..ca8d535 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -813,6 +813,14 @@ config ARM_ERRATA_460075
 	  ACTLR register. Note that setting specific bits in the ACTLR
register
 	  may not be available in non-secure mode.
 
+config OLD_CPU_DELAY
+	depends on CPU_32v3 || CPU_32v4 || CPU_32v4T
+	bool "Accurate delays for some older CPUs"
+	def_bool n
+	help
+	  Try enable this if observing longer than expected delays and need
+	  more accuracy.  May cause instability in some CPUs.
+
 endmenu
 
 source "arch/arm/common/Kconfig"
diff --git a/arch/arm/lib/delay.S b/arch/arm/lib/delay.S
index 8d6a876..67e679b 100644
--- a/arch/arm/lib/delay.S
+++ b/arch/arm/lib/delay.S
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ ENTRY(__const_udelay)				@ 0 <= r0 <= 0x7fffff06
 @ Delay routine
 ENTRY(__delay)
 		subs	r0, r0, #1
-#if 0
+#ifdef CONFIG_OLD_CPU_DELAY
 		movls	pc, lr
 		subs	r0, r0, #1
 		movls	pc, lr

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Steve Chen <schen@mvista.com>
To: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Cc: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm: remove unused code in delay.S
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 03:26:06 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1253089566.3273.152.camel@linux-1lbu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m33a6nddvd.fsf@intrepid.localdomain>

On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 00:47 +0200, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> Steve Chen <schen@mvista.com> writes:
> 
> > If I know for sure that these are the processors that need that block of
> > code, your suggestion makes perfect sense.  Unfortunately, I don't know.
> 
> Then I wouldn't write "Accurate delays". "Different", maybe.
> "Accurate", we don't know.
You are right.  "Accurate delays" isn't appropriate.  Probably want
something along the lines of "try this and see if helps".

> 
> > My primary goals are
> >
> > 1.  Put a stop to this thread (so far I have failed miserably)
> > 2.  Document that block of code.
> > 3.  If it makes someone's life easier.. it would be a bonus.
> 
> Uncertain comments don't make life easier. Just write what's certain,
> or nothing if nothing is.
Makes sense.  Based on both yours and Marek's inputs, I changed the
wording.  The patch is below.

Document #if 0 code block in delay.S and make it selectable for compile.

Signed-off-by: Steve Chen <schen@mvista.com>

---

 arch/arm/Kconfig     |    8 ++++++++
 arch/arm/lib/delay.S |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index aef63c8..ca8d535 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -813,6 +813,14 @@ config ARM_ERRATA_460075
 	  ACTLR register. Note that setting specific bits in the ACTLR
register
 	  may not be available in non-secure mode.
 
+config OLD_CPU_DELAY
+	depends on CPU_32v3 || CPU_32v4 || CPU_32v4T
+	bool "Accurate delays for some older CPUs"
+	def_bool n
+	help
+	  Try enable this if observing longer than expected delays and need
+	  more accuracy.  May cause instability in some CPUs.
+
 endmenu
 
 source "arch/arm/common/Kconfig"
diff --git a/arch/arm/lib/delay.S b/arch/arm/lib/delay.S
index 8d6a876..67e679b 100644
--- a/arch/arm/lib/delay.S
+++ b/arch/arm/lib/delay.S
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ ENTRY(__const_udelay)				@ 0 <= r0 <= 0x7fffff06
 @ Delay routine
 ENTRY(__delay)
 		subs	r0, r0, #1
-#if 0
+#ifdef CONFIG_OLD_CPU_DELAY
 		movls	pc, lr
 		subs	r0, r0, #1
 		movls	pc, lr



  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-16  8:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 80+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-13 21:05 [PATCH] arm: remove unused code in delay.S Felipe Contreras
2009-09-13 21:05 ` Felipe Contreras
2009-09-13 21:28 ` Marek Vasut
2009-09-13 21:28   ` Marek Vasut
2009-09-13 23:00   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-09-13 23:00     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-09-14  0:21     ` Jamie Lokier
2009-09-14  0:21       ` Jamie Lokier
2009-09-14  8:10       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-09-14  8:10         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-09-14 12:58         ` Felipe Contreras
2009-09-14 12:58           ` Felipe Contreras
2009-09-14 14:00           ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-09-14 14:00             ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-09-14 14:38             ` Felipe Contreras
2009-09-14 14:38               ` Felipe Contreras
2009-09-14 14:40               ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-09-14 14:40                 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-09-14 15:14                 ` Felipe Contreras
2009-09-14 15:14                   ` Felipe Contreras
2009-09-14 15:21                   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-09-14 15:21                     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-09-14 15:50                     ` Felipe Contreras
2009-09-14 15:50                       ` Felipe Contreras
2009-09-14 16:25                       ` Marek Vasut
2009-09-14 16:25                         ` Marek Vasut
2009-09-14 16:54                         ` Felipe Contreras
2009-09-14 16:54                           ` Felipe Contreras
2009-09-14 15:36                   ` Wolfram Sang
2009-09-14 15:36                     ` Wolfram Sang
2009-09-14 16:06                     ` Felipe Contreras
2009-09-14 16:06                       ` Felipe Contreras
2009-09-14 16:24                       ` Wolfram Sang
2009-09-14 16:24                         ` Wolfram Sang
2009-09-15 10:37                   ` Pavel Machek
2009-09-15 10:37                     ` Pavel Machek
2009-09-15 10:47                     ` Felipe Contreras
2009-09-15 10:47                       ` Felipe Contreras
2009-09-15 10:49                       ` Pavel Machek
2009-09-15 10:49                         ` Pavel Machek
2009-09-15 11:20                         ` Felipe Contreras
2009-09-15 11:20                           ` Felipe Contreras
2009-09-15 12:29                     ` Steve Chen
2009-09-15 12:29                       ` Steve Chen
2009-09-15 13:41                       ` Marek Vasut
2009-09-15 13:41                         ` Marek Vasut
2009-09-15 16:30                         ` Steve Chen
2009-09-15 16:30                           ` Steve Chen
2009-09-15 18:58                           ` Felipe Contreras
2009-09-15 18:58                             ` Felipe Contreras
2009-09-15 19:44                             ` Steve Chen
2009-09-15 19:44                               ` Steve Chen
2009-09-15 20:39                               ` Marek Vasut
2009-09-15 20:39                                 ` Marek Vasut
2009-09-15 21:04                               ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-09-15 21:04                                 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-09-15 22:26                                 ` Steve Chen
2009-09-15 22:26                                   ` Steve Chen
2009-09-15 22:47                                   ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-09-15 22:47                                     ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-09-16  8:26                                     ` Steve Chen [this message]
2009-09-16  8:26                                       ` Steve Chen
2009-09-16 12:30                                       ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-09-16 12:30                                         ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-09-16 14:49                                         ` Steve Chen
2009-09-16 14:49                                           ` Steve Chen
2009-09-16 20:21                                           ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-09-16 20:21                                             ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-09-16 13:47                                 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-09-16 13:47                                   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-09-17 19:32                                   ` Jamie Lokier
2009-09-17 19:32                                     ` Jamie Lokier
2009-09-17 19:41                                     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-09-17 19:41                                       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-09-17 21:29                                       ` [PATCH v2] " Steve Chen
2009-09-17 21:29                                         ` Steve Chen
2009-09-17 21:37                                         ` Jamie Lokier
2009-09-17 21:37                                           ` Jamie Lokier
2009-09-17 22:25                                           ` Steve Chen
2009-09-17 22:25                                             ` Steve Chen

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