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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH v1 15/31] ARC: Process/scheduling/clock/Timers/Delay Management
On Tuesday 13 November 2012 01:59 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Nov 2012, Vineet Gupta wrote:
>> +void cpu_idle(void)
>> +{
>> + /* Since we SLEEP in idle loop, TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG can't be set */
>> +
>> + /* endless idle loop with no priority at all */
>> + while (1) {
>> + tick_nohz_idle_enter();
>> +
>> + while (!need_resched())
>> + arch_idle();
>> +
>> + tick_nohz_idle_exit();
>> +
>> + preempt_enable_no_resched();
>> + schedule();
>> + preempt_disable();
>
> schedule_preempt_disabled() please


OK ! And it seems I was also missing the calls to rcu_idle_enter()/exit() to track
commit 1268fbc746ea "nohz: Remove tick_nohz_idle_enter_norcu() / ..."


>> + }
>
>> diff --git a/arch/arc/kernel/time.c b/arch/arc/kernel/time.c
>>
>> +static void arc_periodic_timer_setup(unsigned int limit)
>> +{
>> + /* setup start and end markers */
>> + write_aux_reg(ARC_REG_TIMER0_LIMIT, limit);
>> + write_aux_reg(ARC_REG_TIMER0_CNT, 0); /* start from 0 */
>> +
>> + /* IE: Interrupt on count = limit,
>> + * NH: Count cycles only when CPU running (NOT Halted)
>> + */
>> + write_aux_reg(ARC_REG_TIMER0_CTRL, TIMER_CTRL_IE | TIMER_CTRL_NH);
>> +}
>> +
>> +/*
>> + * Acknowledge the interrupt & enable/disable the interrupt
>> + */
>> +static void arc_periodic_timer_ack(unsigned int irq_reenable)
>> +{
>> + /* 1. Ack the interrupt by writing to CTRL reg.
>> + * Any write will cause intr to be ack, however it has to be one of
>> + * writable bits (NH: Count when not halted)
>> + * 2. If required by caller, re-arm timer to Interrupt at the end of
>> + * next cycle.
>> + *
>> + * Small optimisation:
>> + * Normal code would have been
>> + * if (irq_reenable) CTRL_REG = (IE | NH); else CTRL_REG = NH;
>> + * However since IE is BIT0 we can fold the branch
>> + */
>> + write_aux_reg(ARC_REG_TIMER0_CTRL, irq_reenable | TIMER_CTRL_NH);
>> +}
>
> ....
>
>> +/********** Clock Event Device *********/
>> +
>> +static int arc_clkevent_set_next_event(unsigned long delta,
>> + struct clock_event_device *dev)
>> +{
>> + arc_periodic_timer_setup(delta);
>
> This is confusing. Is arc_periodic_timer_setup() setting up a periodic
> timer or a oneshot timer? It looks you use it for both and the
> differentiation happens in arc_periodic_timer_ack(). So I assume the
> timer only knows about periodic mode, but you trick it into oneshot
> with the ack function, right ?

I would think it's the other way round - timer counts upto limit and then
interrupts - which needs to be acknowledged. And as part of ACKing it we can
wiggle an additional bit to re-arm it again (for same limit). Thus it is basically
one-shot which can be made periodic w/o much additional effort.


> So it's just me being confused about
> the function names, but that could do with some explanatory comments.
>

Function names updated and more comment added to hopefully clarify it for v2 series.


>> + return 0;
>> +}
>> +
>> +static void arc_clkevent_set_mode(enum clock_event_mode mode,
>> + struct clock_event_device *dev)
>> +{
>> + pr_info("Device [%s] clockevent mode now [%d]\n", dev->name, mode);
>
> Please remove the debug leftover.

OK !


>> + switch (mode) {
>> + case CLOCK_EVT_MODE_PERIODIC:
>> + arc_periodic_timer_setup(CONFIG_ARC_PLAT_CLK / HZ);
>> + break;
>> + case CLOCK_EVT_MODE_ONESHOT:
>> + break;
>> + default:
>> + break;
>> + }
>> +
>> + return;
>> +}
>> +
>> +static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct clock_event_device, arc_clockevent_device) = {
>> + .name = "ARC Timer0",
>> + .features = CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_ONESHOT | CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_PERIODIC,
>> + .mode = CLOCK_EVT_MODE_UNUSED,
>> + .rating = 300,
>> + .irq = TIMER0_IRQ, /* hardwired, no need for resources */
>> + .set_next_event = arc_clkevent_set_next_event,
>> + .set_mode = arc_clkevent_set_mode,
>> +};
>> +
>> +irqreturn_t timer_irq_handler(int irq, void *dev_id)
>
> static please

Done !

>
>> +static int arc_finished_booting;
>> +
>> +/*
>> + * Scheduler clock - returns current time in nanosec units.
>> + * It's return value must NOT wrap around.
>> + *
>> + * Although the return value is nanosec units based, what's more important
>> + * is whats the "source" of this value. The orig jiffies based computation
>> + * was only as granular as jiffies itself (10ms on ARC).
>> + * We need something that is more granular, so use the same mechanism as
>> + * gettimeofday(), which uses ARC Timer T1 wrapped as a clocksource.
>> + * Unfortunately the first call to sched_clock( ) is way before that subsys
>> + * is initialiased, thus use the jiffies based value in the interim.
>> + */
>> +unsigned long long sched_clock(void)
>> +{
>> + if (!arc_finished_booting) {
>> + return (unsigned long long)(jiffies - INITIAL_JIFFIES)
>> + * (NSEC_PER_SEC / HZ);
>> + } else {
>> + struct timespec ts;
>> + getrawmonotonic(&ts);
>
> This can live lock. sched_clock() is used by the tracer. So assume you
> are function tracing and you trace a function called from within the
> timekeeping seqcount write "locked" region. You spin forever in
> getrawmonotonic(). Not what you want, right ?

Correct- so that means we need an equivalent of partially open-code
getrawmonotonic w/o any locks here - read the clocksource directly just as other
arches.

Thx,
-Vineet


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