[PATCH v2 02/11] clocksource:global_timer: Add ARM global timer support.

[linus.walleij@linaro.org (Linus Walleij)]

On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Srinivas KANDAGATLA
<srinivas.kandagatla@st.com> wrote:

> From: Stuart Menefy <stuart.menefy@st.com>
>
> This is a simple driver for the global timer module found in the Cortex
> A9-MP cores from revision r1p0 onwards. This should be able to perform
> the functions of the system timer and the local timer in an SMP system.
>
> The global timer has the following features:
>     The global timer is a 64-bit incrementing counter with an
> auto-incrementing feature. It continues incrementing after sending
> interrupts. The global timer is memory mapped in the private memory
> region.
>     The global timer is accessible to all Cortex-A9 processors in the
> cluster. Each Cortex-A9 processor has a private 64-bit comparator that
> is used to assert a private interrupt when the global timer has reached
> the comparator value. All the Cortex-A9 processors in a design use the
> banked ID, ID27, for this interrupt. ID27 is sent to the Interrupt
> Controller as a Private Peripheral Interrupt. The global timer is
> clocked by PERIPHCLK.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stuart Menefy <stuart.menefy@st.com>
> Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@st.com>
> CC: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> CC: Rob Herring <robherring2@gmail.com>
> CC: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
> CC: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
> CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

This is starting to look very good!

(...)
> +static int __cpuinit gt_clockevents_init(struct clock_event_device *clk)
> +{
> +       struct clock_event_device **this_cpu_clk;
> +       int cpu = smp_processor_id();
> +
> +       clk->name = "ARM global timer clock event";
> +       clk->features = CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_PERIODIC | CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_ONESHOT;
> +       clk->set_mode = gt_clockevent_set_mode;
> +       clk->set_next_event = gt_clockevent_set_next_event;
> +       this_cpu_clk = __this_cpu_ptr(gt_evt);
> +       *this_cpu_clk = clk;
> +       clk->cpumask = cpumask_of(cpu);
> +       clk->irq = gt_ppi;
> +       clockevents_config_and_register(clk, gt_clk_rate,
> +                                       0, 0xffffffff);

What do you mean with being able to set event on
0?

This should most probably be:


clockevents_config_and_register(clk, gt_clk_rate,
                                      1, 0xffffffff);

(...)
> +static struct clk *gt_get_clock(void)
> +{
> +       struct clk *clk;
> +       int err;
> +
> +       clk = clk_get_sys("gt", NULL);
> +       if (IS_ERR(clk)) {
> +               pr_err("global-timer: clock not found: %ld\n", PTR_ERR(clk));
> +               return clk;
> +       }
(...)
> +       clk = of_clk_get(np, 0);
> +       if (!IS_ERR(clk))
> +               clk_register_clkdev(clk, NULL, "gt");

Well that was clever.

Isn't it better to pass a struct device_node *np around and have that as
NULL in the non-DT boot path?

(Maybe somebody in the community asked you to do this, then I
will live with it.)

Yours,
Linus Walleij