[PATCH] tile/time: set ->min_delta_ticks and ->max_delta_ticks

Nicolai Stange
2017-03-30T19:57:49Z

Currently, the tile's timer clockevent device is initialized as follows:

evt->max_delta_ns = clockevent_delta2ns(MAX_TICK, evt);

and

.min_delta_ns = 1000,

The first one translates to a ->max_delta_ticks value of MAX_TICK.
For the latter, note that the clockevent core will superimpose a
minimum of 1us by itself -- setting ->min_delta_ticks to 1 is safe here.

Initialize ->min_delta_ticks and ->max_delta_ticks with these values.

This patch alone doesn't introduce any change in functionality as the
clockevents core still looks exclusively at the (untouched) ->min_delta_ns
and ->max_delta_ns. As soon as this has changed, a followup patch will
purge the initialization of ->min_delta_ns and ->max_delta_ns from this
driver.

Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com>
---

Notes:
This prerequisite patch is part of a larger effort to feed NTP
corrections into the clockevent devices' frequencies and thus
avoiding their notion of time to diverge from the system's
one. If you're interested, the current state of the whole series
can be found at [1].

If you haven't got any objections and these prerequisites get
merged by 4.12 everywhere, I'll proceed with the remainder of
this series in 4.13.

Applicable to next-20170324 as well as to John' Stultz tree [2].

[1]
git://nicst.de/linux.git cev-freq-adj.v10.fortglx-4.12-time
https://nicst.de/git/?p=linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/cev-freq-adj.v10.fortglx-4.12-time

[2]
https://git.linaro.org/people/john.stultz/linux.git fortglx/4.12/time

arch/tile/kernel/time.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/tile/kernel/time.c b/arch/tile/kernel/time.c
index 5bd4e88c7c60..6643ffbc0615 100644
--- a/arch/tile/kernel/time.c
+++ b/arch/tile/kernel/time.c
@@ -155,6 +155,8 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct clock_event_device, tile_timer) = {
.name = "tile timer",
.features = CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_ONESHOT,
.min_delta_ns = 1000,
+ .min_delta_ticks = 1,
+ .max_delta_ticks = MAX_TICK,
.rating = 100,
.irq = -1,
.set_next_event = tile_timer_set_next_event,
--
2.12.0