BUG: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] clocksource: use clockevents_config_and_register() where possible

[mkl@pengutronix.de (Marc Kleine-Budde)]

Hello,

On 01/12/2013 12:50 PM, Shawn Guo wrote:
> The clockevent core is able to figure out the best mult and shift,
> calculate min_delta_ns and max_delta_ns, with the necessary info passed
> into clockevents_config_and_register().  Use this combined configure
> and register function where possible to make the codes less error prone
> and gain some positive diff stat.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
> Cc: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
> Cc: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
> Acked-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>

[...]

I just bisected a timer problem down to this commit.

> diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/tcb_clksrc.c b/drivers/clocksource/tcb_clksrc.c
> index 32cb929..8a61872 100644
> --- a/drivers/clocksource/tcb_clksrc.c
> +++ b/drivers/clocksource/tcb_clksrc.c
> @@ -157,7 +157,6 @@ static struct tc_clkevt_device clkevt = {
>  		.name		= "tc_clkevt",
>  		.features	= CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_PERIODIC
>  					| CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_ONESHOT,
> -		.shift		= 32,
>  		/* Should be lower than at91rm9200's system timer */
>  		.rating		= 125,
>  		.set_next_event	= tc_next_event,
> @@ -196,13 +195,9 @@ static void __init setup_clkevents(struct atmel_tc *tc, int clk32k_divisor_idx)
>  
>  	timer_clock = clk32k_divisor_idx;
>  
> -	clkevt.clkevt.mult = div_sc(32768, NSEC_PER_SEC, clkevt.clkevt.shift);
> -	clkevt.clkevt.max_delta_ns
> -		= clockevent_delta2ns(0xffff, &clkevt.clkevt);
> -	clkevt.clkevt.min_delta_ns = clockevent_delta2ns(1, &clkevt.clkevt) + 1;
                                                                           ^^^^^^

With this patch, the "+ 1" gets lost, resulting in a different
"min_delta_ns".

good:
setup_clkevents: shift=32 mult=140737 min=30518 max=1999976422

bad:
setup_clkevents: shift=32 mult=140737 min=30517 max=1999976422

This leads to problems with schedule_delayed_work() with a delay of
"1". These worksqueues seem to be hanging for several seconds. I'll
send a RFC patch.

>  	clkevt.clkevt.cpumask = cpumask_of(0);
>  
> -	clockevents_register_device(&clkevt.clkevt);
> +	clockevents_config_and_register(&clkevt.clkevt, 32768, 1, 0xffff);
>  
>  	setup_irq(irq, &tc_irqaction);
>  }
> 

Marc

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