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

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

On 04/23/2013 03:44 PM, Shawn Guo wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 03:11:33PM +0200, 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@pengutronix.de>
>>
>> The problem appears on at91sam9263. This patch successfully fixes the
>> problem and applies to current linus/master (post v3.9-rc8).
> 
> Thanks for the fixing, Marc.
> 
> Acked-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>

Thanks. The downside of my RFC Patch is, that min_delta_ns is increased
from 30518 to 61035:

good: setup_clkevents: shift=32 mult=140737 min=30518 max=1999976422
bad:  setup_clkevents: shift=32 mult=140737 min=30517 max=1999976422
RFC:  setup_clkevents: shift=32 mult=140737 min=61035 max=1999976422

To keep the original min_delta_ns value of 30518, a rather hackish
option would be this:

diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/tcb_clksrc.c b/drivers/clocksource/tcb_clksrc.c
index 8a61872..30e0a68 100644
--- a/drivers/clocksource/tcb_clksrc.c
+++ b/drivers/clocksource/tcb_clksrc.c
@@ -198,6 +198,7 @@ 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);
+       clkevt.clkevt.min_delta_ns = clockevent_delta2ns(1, &clkevt.clkevt) + 1;

        setup_irq(irq, &tc_irqaction);
 }

Marc

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