[PATCHv2 0/2] Provide new API to get the current time resolution

[PATCHv2 0/2] Provide new API to get the current time resolution

[Harald Geyer]

Hi,

this patch series introduces a new kernel internal API to get the
current time resolution. The first patch adds the implementation and
the second patch updates an example driver to show the possible code
simplification.

If patches 1 and 2 can't go in via the same tree, I'll resend patch 2
with more cleanup patches to dth11.c later -- the main goal for now is,
to get the new code for timekeeping reviewed and merged.

changes since V1:
* dropped patch for adding wrapper code to the iio framework
* improved commit messages

Harald Geyer (2):
  timekeeping: Provide new API to get the current time resolution
  iio: dht11: Use new function ktime_get_resolution_ns()

 drivers/iio/humidity/dht11.c |   42 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
 include/linux/timekeeping.h  |    1 +
 kernel/time/timekeeping.c    |   17 +++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

-- 
1.7.2.5

[PATCHv2 1/2] timekeeping: Provide new API to get the current time resolution

[Harald Geyer]

This patch series introduces a new function
u32 ktime_get_resolution_ns(void)
which allows to clean up some driver code.

In particular the IIO subsystem has a function to provide timestamps for
events but no means to get their resolution. So currently the dht11 driver
tries to guess the resolution in a rather messy and convoluted way. We
can do much better with the new code.

This API is not designed to be exposed to user space.

This has been tested on i386, sunxi and mxs.

Signed-off-by: Harald Geyer <harald@ccbib.org>
---
changes since V1:
Improved commit message.

 include/linux/timekeeping.h |    1 +
 kernel/time/timekeeping.c   |   17 +++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/timekeeping.h b/include/linux/timekeeping.h
index 3eaae47..983b61e 100644
--- a/include/linux/timekeeping.h
+++ b/include/linux/timekeeping.h
@@ -163,6 +163,7 @@ extern ktime_t ktime_get(void);
 extern ktime_t ktime_get_with_offset(enum tk_offsets offs);
 extern ktime_t ktime_mono_to_any(ktime_t tmono, enum tk_offsets offs);
 extern ktime_t ktime_get_raw(void);
+extern u32 ktime_get_resolution_ns(void);
 
 /**
  * ktime_get_real - get the real (wall-) time in ktime_t format
diff --git a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
index 91db941..8efd964 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
@@ -586,6 +586,23 @@ ktime_t ktime_get(void)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ktime_get);
 
+u32 ktime_get_resolution_ns(void)
+{
+	struct timekeeper *tk = &tk_core.timekeeper;
+	unsigned int seq;
+	u32 nsecs;
+
+	WARN_ON(timekeeping_suspended);
+
+	do {
+		seq = read_seqcount_begin(&tk_core.seq);
+		nsecs = tk->tkr.mult >> tk->tkr.shift;
+	} while (read_seqcount_retry(&tk_core.seq, seq));
+
+	return nsecs;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ktime_get_resolution_ns);
+
 static ktime_t *offsets[TK_OFFS_MAX] = {
 	[TK_OFFS_REAL]	= &tk_core.timekeeper.offs_real,
 	[TK_OFFS_BOOT]	= &tk_core.timekeeper.offs_boot,
-- 
1.7.2.5

[PATCHv2 2/2] iio: dht11: Use new function ktime_get_resolution_ns()

[Harald Geyer]

This cleans up the most ugly workaround in this driver. There are no
functional changes yet in the decoding algorithm, but we improve the
following things:
 * Get rid of spurious warning messages on systems with fast HRTIMER.
 * If the clock is not fast enough for decoding to work, we give
   up immediately.
 * In that case we return EAGAIN instead of EIO, so it's easier to
   discriminate causes of failure.

Returning EAGAIN is somewhat controversial: It's technically correct
as a faster clock might become available. OTOH once all clocks are
enabled this is a permanent error. There is no ECLOCKTOOSLOW error
code.

Signed-off-by: Harald Geyer <harald@ccbib.org>
---
changes since V1:
call ktime_get_xxx() functions directly instead of using the wrappers
of the iio subsystem.

 drivers/iio/humidity/dht11.c |   42 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
 1 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/iio/humidity/dht11.c b/drivers/iio/humidity/dht11.c
index 7d79a1a..4cb25dc 100644
--- a/drivers/iio/humidity/dht11.c
+++ b/drivers/iio/humidity/dht11.c
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
 #include <linux/delay.h>
 #include <linux/gpio.h>
 #include <linux/of_gpio.h>
+#include <linux/timekeeping.h>
 
 #include <linux/iio/iio.h>
 
@@ -87,23 +88,11 @@ static unsigned char dht11_decode_byte(int *timing, int threshold)
 	return ret;
 }
 
-static int dht11_decode(struct dht11 *dht11, int offset)
+static int dht11_decode(struct dht11 *dht11, int offset, int timeres)
 {
-	int i, t, timing[DHT11_BITS_PER_READ], threshold,
-		timeres = DHT11_SENSOR_RESPONSE;
+	int i, t, timing[DHT11_BITS_PER_READ], threshold;
 	unsigned char temp_int, temp_dec, hum_int, hum_dec, checksum;
 
-	/* Calculate timestamp resolution */
-	for (i = 1; i < dht11->num_edges; ++i) {
-		t = dht11->edges[i].ts - dht11->edges[i-1].ts;
-		if (t > 0 && t < timeres)
-			timeres = t;
-	}
-	if (2*timeres > DHT11_DATA_BIT_HIGH) {
-		pr_err("dht11: timeresolution %d too bad for decoding\n",
-			timeres);
-		return -EIO;
-	}
 	threshold = DHT11_DATA_BIT_HIGH / timeres;
 	if (DHT11_DATA_BIT_LOW/timeres + 1 >= threshold)
 		pr_err("dht11: WARNING: decoding ambiguous\n");
@@ -126,7 +115,7 @@ static int dht11_decode(struct dht11 *dht11, int offset)
 	if (((hum_int + hum_dec + temp_int + temp_dec) & 0xff) != checksum)
 		return -EIO;
 
-	dht11->timestamp = iio_get_time_ns();
+	dht11->timestamp = ktime_get_real_ns();
 	if (hum_int < 20) {  /* DHT22 */
 		dht11->temperature = (((temp_int & 0x7f) << 8) + temp_dec) *
 					((temp_int & 0x80) ? -100 : 100);
@@ -154,7 +143,7 @@ static irqreturn_t dht11_handle_irq(int irq, void *data)
 
 	/* TODO: Consider making the handler safe for IRQ sharing */
 	if (dht11->num_edges < DHT11_EDGES_PER_READ && dht11->num_edges >= 0) {
-		dht11->edges[dht11->num_edges].ts = iio_get_time_ns();
+		dht11->edges[dht11->num_edges].ts = ktime_get_real_ns();
 		dht11->edges[dht11->num_edges++].value =
 						gpio_get_value(dht11->gpio);
 
@@ -170,10 +159,22 @@ static int dht11_read_raw(struct iio_dev *iio_dev,
 			int *val, int *val2, long m)
 {
 	struct dht11 *dht11 = iio_priv(iio_dev);
-	int ret;
+	int ret, timeres;
 
 	mutex_lock(&dht11->lock);
-	if (dht11->timestamp + DHT11_DATA_VALID_TIME < iio_get_time_ns()) {
+	if (dht11->timestamp + DHT11_DATA_VALID_TIME < ktime_get_real_ns()) {
+		timeres = ktime_get_resolution_ns();
+		if (DHT11_DATA_BIT_HIGH < 2*timeres) {
+			dev_err(dht11->dev, "timeresolution %dns too low\n",
+						timeres);
+			/* In theory a better clock could become available
+			 * at some point ... and there is no error code
+			 * that really fits better.
+			 */
+			ret = -EAGAIN;
+			goto err;
+		}
+
 		reinit_completion(&dht11->completion);
 
 		dht11->num_edges = 0;
@@ -208,7 +209,8 @@ static int dht11_read_raw(struct iio_dev *iio_dev,
 		ret = dht11_decode(dht11,
 				dht11->num_edges == DHT11_EDGES_PER_READ ?
 					DHT11_EDGES_PREAMBLE :
-					DHT11_EDGES_PREAMBLE - 2);
+					DHT11_EDGES_PREAMBLE - 2,
+				timeres);
 		if (ret)
 			goto err;
 	}
@@ -274,7 +276,7 @@ static int dht11_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
-	dht11->timestamp = iio_get_time_ns() - DHT11_DATA_VALID_TIME - 1;
+	dht11->timestamp = ktime_get_real_ns() - DHT11_DATA_VALID_TIME - 1;
 	dht11->num_edges = -1;
 
 	platform_set_drvdata(pdev, iio);
-- 
1.7.2.5

Re: [PATCHv2 1/2] timekeeping: Provide new API to get the current time resolution

[Richard Weinberger]

Am 07.04.2015 um 13:12 schrieb Harald Geyer:
> This patch series introduces a new function
> u32 ktime_get_resolution_ns(void)
> which allows to clean up some driver code.
> 
> In particular the IIO subsystem has a function to provide timestamps for
> events but no means to get their resolution. So currently the dht11 driver
> tries to guess the resolution in a rather messy and convoluted way. We
> can do much better with the new code.
> 
> This API is not designed to be exposed to user space.
> 
> This has been tested on i386, sunxi and mxs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Harald Geyer <harald@ccbib.org>
> ---
> changes since V1:
> Improved commit message.
> 
>  include/linux/timekeeping.h |    1 +
>  kernel/time/timekeeping.c   |   17 +++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/timekeeping.h b/include/linux/timekeeping.h
> index 3eaae47..983b61e 100644
> --- a/include/linux/timekeeping.h
> +++ b/include/linux/timekeeping.h
> @@ -163,6 +163,7 @@ extern ktime_t ktime_get(void);
>  extern ktime_t ktime_get_with_offset(enum tk_offsets offs);
>  extern ktime_t ktime_mono_to_any(ktime_t tmono, enum tk_offsets offs);
>  extern ktime_t ktime_get_raw(void);
> +extern u32 ktime_get_resolution_ns(void);
>  
>  /**
>   * ktime_get_real - get the real (wall-) time in ktime_t format
> diff --git a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
> index 91db941..8efd964 100644
> --- a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
> +++ b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
> @@ -586,6 +586,23 @@ ktime_t ktime_get(void)
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ktime_get);
>  
> +u32 ktime_get_resolution_ns(void)
> +{
> +	struct timekeeper *tk = &tk_core.timekeeper;
> +	unsigned int seq;
> +	u32 nsecs;
> +
> +	WARN_ON(timekeeping_suspended);
> +
> +	do {
> +		seq = read_seqcount_begin(&tk_core.seq);
> +		nsecs = tk->tkr.mult >> tk->tkr.shift;
> +	} while (read_seqcount_retry(&tk_core.seq, seq));
> +
> +	return nsecs;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ktime_get_resolution_ns);

Hmm, isn't this ktime_get_raw_ns()?

Thanks,
//richard

Re: [PATCHv2 1/2] timekeeping: Provide new API to get the current time resolution

[Richard Weinberger]

Am 08.04.2015 um 00:30 schrieb Richard Weinberger:
> Am 07.04.2015 um 13:12 schrieb Harald Geyer:
>> This patch series introduces a new function
>> u32 ktime_get_resolution_ns(void)
>> which allows to clean up some driver code.
>>
>> In particular the IIO subsystem has a function to provide timestamps for
>> events but no means to get their resolution. So currently the dht11 driver
>> tries to guess the resolution in a rather messy and convoluted way. We
>> can do much better with the new code.
>>
>> This API is not designed to be exposed to user space.
>>
>> This has been tested on i386, sunxi and mxs.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Harald Geyer <harald@ccbib.org>
>> ---
>> changes since V1:
>> Improved commit message.
>>
>>  include/linux/timekeeping.h |    1 +
>>  kernel/time/timekeeping.c   |   17 +++++++++++++++++
>>  2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/linux/timekeeping.h b/include/linux/timekeeping.h
>> index 3eaae47..983b61e 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/timekeeping.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/timekeeping.h
>> @@ -163,6 +163,7 @@ extern ktime_t ktime_get(void);
>>  extern ktime_t ktime_get_with_offset(enum tk_offsets offs);
>>  extern ktime_t ktime_mono_to_any(ktime_t tmono, enum tk_offsets offs);
>>  extern ktime_t ktime_get_raw(void);
>> +extern u32 ktime_get_resolution_ns(void);
>>  
>>  /**
>>   * ktime_get_real - get the real (wall-) time in ktime_t format
>> diff --git a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
>> index 91db941..8efd964 100644
>> --- a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
>> +++ b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
>> @@ -586,6 +586,23 @@ ktime_t ktime_get(void)
>>  }
>>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ktime_get);
>>  
>> +u32 ktime_get_resolution_ns(void)
>> +{
>> +	struct timekeeper *tk = &tk_core.timekeeper;
>> +	unsigned int seq;
>> +	u32 nsecs;
>> +
>> +	WARN_ON(timekeeping_suspended);
>> +
>> +	do {
>> +		seq = read_seqcount_begin(&tk_core.seq);
>> +		nsecs = tk->tkr.mult >> tk->tkr.shift;
>> +	} while (read_seqcount_retry(&tk_core.seq, seq));
>> +
>> +	return nsecs;
>> +}
>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ktime_get_resolution_ns);
> 
> Hmm, isn't this ktime_get_raw_ns()?

Whoops, it is of course not the same.

Thanks,
//richard

Re: [PATCHv2 2/2] iio: dht11: Use new function ktime_get_resolution_ns()

[Jonathan Cameron]

On 07/04/15 12:12, Harald Geyer wrote:
> This cleans up the most ugly workaround in this driver. There are no
> functional changes yet in the decoding algorithm, but we improve the
> following things:
>  * Get rid of spurious warning messages on systems with fast HRTIMER.
>  * If the clock is not fast enough for decoding to work, we give
>    up immediately.
>  * In that case we return EAGAIN instead of EIO, so it's easier to
>    discriminate causes of failure.
> 
> Returning EAGAIN is somewhat controversial: It's technically correct
> as a faster clock might become available. OTOH once all clocks are
> enabled this is a permanent error. There is no ECLOCKTOOSLOW error
> code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Harald Geyer <harald@ccbib.org>
Looks good to me.  Will wait for comments on the first patch though
before taking this... clearly that one will need a few acks if I take
it through IIO!

Jonathan
> ---
> changes since V1:
> call ktime_get_xxx() functions directly instead of using the wrappers
> of the iio subsystem.
> 
>  drivers/iio/humidity/dht11.c |   42 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
>  1 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/iio/humidity/dht11.c b/drivers/iio/humidity/dht11.c
> index 7d79a1a..4cb25dc 100644
> --- a/drivers/iio/humidity/dht11.c
> +++ b/drivers/iio/humidity/dht11.c
> @@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
>  #include <linux/delay.h>
>  #include <linux/gpio.h>
>  #include <linux/of_gpio.h>
> +#include <linux/timekeeping.h>
>  
>  #include <linux/iio/iio.h>
>  
> @@ -87,23 +88,11 @@ static unsigned char dht11_decode_byte(int *timing, int threshold)
>  	return ret;
>  }
>  
> -static int dht11_decode(struct dht11 *dht11, int offset)
> +static int dht11_decode(struct dht11 *dht11, int offset, int timeres)
>  {
> -	int i, t, timing[DHT11_BITS_PER_READ], threshold,
> -		timeres = DHT11_SENSOR_RESPONSE;
> +	int i, t, timing[DHT11_BITS_PER_READ], threshold;
>  	unsigned char temp_int, temp_dec, hum_int, hum_dec, checksum;
>  
> -	/* Calculate timestamp resolution */
> -	for (i = 1; i < dht11->num_edges; ++i) {
> -		t = dht11->edges[i].ts - dht11->edges[i-1].ts;
> -		if (t > 0 && t < timeres)
> -			timeres = t;
> -	}
> -	if (2*timeres > DHT11_DATA_BIT_HIGH) {
> -		pr_err("dht11: timeresolution %d too bad for decoding\n",
> -			timeres);
> -		return -EIO;
> -	}
>  	threshold = DHT11_DATA_BIT_HIGH / timeres;
>  	if (DHT11_DATA_BIT_LOW/timeres + 1 >= threshold)
>  		pr_err("dht11: WARNING: decoding ambiguous\n");
> @@ -126,7 +115,7 @@ static int dht11_decode(struct dht11 *dht11, int offset)
>  	if (((hum_int + hum_dec + temp_int + temp_dec) & 0xff) != checksum)
>  		return -EIO;
>  
> -	dht11->timestamp = iio_get_time_ns();
> +	dht11->timestamp = ktime_get_real_ns();
>  	if (hum_int < 20) {  /* DHT22 */
>  		dht11->temperature = (((temp_int & 0x7f) << 8) + temp_dec) *
>  					((temp_int & 0x80) ? -100 : 100);
> @@ -154,7 +143,7 @@ static irqreturn_t dht11_handle_irq(int irq, void *data)
>  
>  	/* TODO: Consider making the handler safe for IRQ sharing */
>  	if (dht11->num_edges < DHT11_EDGES_PER_READ && dht11->num_edges >= 0) {
> -		dht11->edges[dht11->num_edges].ts = iio_get_time_ns();
> +		dht11->edges[dht11->num_edges].ts = ktime_get_real_ns();
>  		dht11->edges[dht11->num_edges++].value =
>  						gpio_get_value(dht11->gpio);
>  
> @@ -170,10 +159,22 @@ static int dht11_read_raw(struct iio_dev *iio_dev,
>  			int *val, int *val2, long m)
>  {
>  	struct dht11 *dht11 = iio_priv(iio_dev);
> -	int ret;
> +	int ret, timeres;
>  
>  	mutex_lock(&dht11->lock);
> -	if (dht11->timestamp + DHT11_DATA_VALID_TIME < iio_get_time_ns()) {
> +	if (dht11->timestamp + DHT11_DATA_VALID_TIME < ktime_get_real_ns()) {
> +		timeres = ktime_get_resolution_ns();
> +		if (DHT11_DATA_BIT_HIGH < 2*timeres) {
> +			dev_err(dht11->dev, "timeresolution %dns too low\n",
> +						timeres);
> +			/* In theory a better clock could become available
> +			 * at some point ... and there is no error code
> +			 * that really fits better.
> +			 */
> +			ret = -EAGAIN;
> +			goto err;
> +		}
> +
>  		reinit_completion(&dht11->completion);
>  
>  		dht11->num_edges = 0;
> @@ -208,7 +209,8 @@ static int dht11_read_raw(struct iio_dev *iio_dev,
>  		ret = dht11_decode(dht11,
>  				dht11->num_edges == DHT11_EDGES_PER_READ ?
>  					DHT11_EDGES_PREAMBLE :
> -					DHT11_EDGES_PREAMBLE - 2);
> +					DHT11_EDGES_PREAMBLE - 2,
> +				timeres);
>  		if (ret)
>  			goto err;
>  	}
> @@ -274,7 +276,7 @@ static int dht11_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  	}
>  
> -	dht11->timestamp = iio_get_time_ns() - DHT11_DATA_VALID_TIME - 1;
> +	dht11->timestamp = ktime_get_real_ns() - DHT11_DATA_VALID_TIME - 1;
>  	dht11->num_edges = -1;
>  
>  	platform_set_drvdata(pdev, iio);
>