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From: Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com>
To: "G, Manjunath Kondaiah" <manjugk@ti.com>
Cc: "Gurav , Pramod" <pramod.gurav@ti.com>,
	"linux-omap@vger.kernel.org" <linux-omap@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Reddy, Teerth" <teerth@ti.com>,
	"Sripathy, Vishwanath" <vishwanath.bs@ti.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] OMAP3: SDRC: Dynamic Calculation of SDRC stall latency during DVFS
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 07:48:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ljdpofcz.fsf@deeprootsystems.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E0D41E29EB0DAC4E9F3FF173962E9E94026F078B5E@dbde02.ent.ti.com> (Manjunath Kondaiah G.'s message of "Thu\, 18 Mar 2010 11\:47\:52 +0530")

"G, Manjunath Kondaiah" <manjugk@ti.com> writes:

>> +#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_OMAP3
>> +void (*_omap3_sram_delay)(unsigned int);
>> +unsigned int  measure_sram_delay(unsigned int loop)
>> +{
>> +	static struct omap_dm_timer *gpt;
>> +	unsigned long flags, diff = 0, gt_rate, mpurate;
>> +	unsigned int delay_sram, error_gain;
>> +	unsigned int start = 0, end = 0;
>> +
>> +	omap_dm_timer_init();
>> +	gpt = omap_dm_timer_request();
>> +	if (!gpt) {
>
> Request timer API returns NULL on failure. 
> Use   BUG_ON(gpt == NULL);

No.  BUG_ON() will panic the kernel and hang here.  There is no need
to crash the kernel for that.

Current aproach is fine, or if a more verbose warning is desired,
you can use if (WARN_ON(!gpt)) ... and drop the pr_err()

Kevin

  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-18 14:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-18  4:55 [PATCH 0/2] OMAP3: Dynamic Calculation of SDRC stall latency during DVFS Pramod Gurav
2010-03-18  4:55 ` [PATCH v4 1/2] OMAP3: SDRC: " Pramod Gurav
2010-03-18  4:55   ` [PATCH v2 2/2] OMAP3630 SDRC: Change in DVFS Latency Formula for OMAP3630 Pramod Gurav
2010-03-18  7:17     ` ambresh
2010-03-19 13:17       ` Sripathy, Vishwanath
2010-03-23  2:49         ` ambresh
2010-03-18  6:17   ` [PATCH v4 1/2] OMAP3: SDRC: Dynamic Calculation of SDRC stall latency during DVFS G, Manjunath Kondaiah
2010-03-18 14:48     ` Kevin Hilman [this message]
2010-03-18  7:15   ` ambresh
2010-03-19 13:15     ` Sripathy, Vishwanath
2010-03-21 13:24       ` ambresh
2010-03-18 15:09   ` Kevin Hilman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-04-01 17:16 [PATCH V4 0/2] OMAP3: " Pramod Gurav
2010-04-01 17:16 ` [PATCH v4 1/2] OMAP3: SDRC: " Pramod Gurav

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