Re: [PATCH v2 4/9] clocksource: mediatek: Use GPT as sched clock source

[Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@gmail.com>]

On Friday, July 03, 2015 09:48:42 PM Daniel Kurtz wrote:
> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 7:02 PM, Matthias Brugger
> 
> <matthias.bgg@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2015-05-16 9:58 GMT+02:00 Yingjoe Chen <yingjoe.chen@mediatek.com>:
> >> When cpu is in deep idle, arch timer will stop counting. Setup GPT as
> >> sched clock source so it can keep counting in idle.
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Yingjoe Chen <yingjoe.chen@mediatek.com>
> >> ---
> >> 
> >>  drivers/clocksource/mtk_timer.c | 10 ++++++++++
> >>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> >> 
> >> diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/mtk_timer.c
> >> b/drivers/clocksource/mtk_timer.c index 91206f9..fe7cf72 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/clocksource/mtk_timer.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/clocksource/mtk_timer.c
> >> @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
> >> 
> >>  #include <linux/of.h>
> >>  #include <linux/of_address.h>
> >>  #include <linux/of_irq.h>
> >> 
> >> +#include <linux/sched_clock.h>
> >> 
> >>  #include <linux/slab.h>
> >>  
> >>  #define GPT_IRQ_EN_REG         0x00
> >> 
> >> @@ -59,6 +60,13 @@ struct mtk_clock_event_device {
> >> 
> >>         struct clock_event_device dev;
> >>  
> >>  };
> >> 
> >> +static void __iomem *gpt_base __read_mostly;
> >> +
> >> +static u64 notrace mtk_read_sched_clock(void)
> >> +{
> >> +       return readl_relaxed(gpt_base + TIMER_CNT_REG(GPT_CLK_SRC));
> >> +}
> >> +
> >> 
> >>  static inline struct mtk_clock_event_device *to_mtk_clk(
> >>  
> >>                                 struct clock_event_device *c)
> >>  
> >>  {
> >> 
> >> @@ -243,6 +251,8 @@ static void __init mtk_timer_init(struct device_node
> >> *node)>> 
> >>         mtk_timer_setup(evt, GPT_CLK_SRC, TIMER_CTRL_OP_FREERUN, 1);
> >>         clocksource_mmio_init(evt->gpt_base + TIMER_CNT_REG(GPT_CLK_SRC),
> >>         
> >>                         node->name, rate, 300, 32,
> >>                         clocksource_mmio_readl_up);
> >> 
> >> +       gpt_base = evt->gpt_base;
> > 
> > This is really hacky. We should clean up the code and provide
> > mtk_clock_event_device globally.
> > Please add the patch below, which does exactly this.
> 
> I don't think this is so hacky.
> In light of Stephen's comment about the benefit of using
> container_of() to extract gpt_base from the passed in struct
> clock_event_device in the other routines, what is the benefit of
> making more of mtk_clock_event_device global?
> I think what Yingjoe has implemented is short and sweet.
> 

Huh, this patch got somehow forgotten.
Ok, just one comment. I would prefer to rename the global gpt_base to 
gpt_sched_base or something similar and set the pointer + offset directly 
mtk_timer_init.

Thanks,
Matthias