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SubjectRe: [PATCH] [PATCH] clocksource: tcb: fix min_delta calculation
On Tue, 17 Sep 2013, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 11:56:00AM +0200, Ludovic Desroches wrote:
> > Any reason to not do this:
> >
> > --- a/drivers/clocksource/tcb_clksrc.c
> > +++ b/drivers/clocksource/tcb_clksrc.c
> > @@ -144,6 +144,9 @@ static void tc_mode(enum clock_event_mode m, struct
> > clock_event_device *d)
> >
> > static int tc_next_event(unsigned long delta, struct clock_event_device
> > *d)
> > {
> > + if (delta < d->min_delta_ticks)
> > + delta = d->min_delta_ticks;
> > +
> > __raw_writel(delta, tcaddr + ATMEL_TC_REG(2, RC));
> >
> > /* go go gadget! */
> >
> > Then we can keep the same min_delta.
>
> You really should not play such games in your set_next_event() code - if
> the interval is not supported, you should return -ETIME so that the core
> code knows about it and can adjust things to suit. If you're getting
> deltas which are too small for the hardware, that'll either be because
> the bounds are wrong, or there's a bug in the core code.

The core code does:

int clockevents_program_event(struct clock_event_device *dev, ktime_t expires,
bool force)
{
....

delta = min(delta, (int64_t) dev->max_delta_ns);
delta = max(delta, (int64_t) dev->min_delta_ns);

clc = ((unsigned long long) delta * dev->mult) >> dev->shift;
rc = dev->set_next_event((unsigned long) clc, dev);

}

So, the min_delta in timer ticks is set to 1 and converted by the core
to nsecs for various reasons. This is where the rounding problem comes
into play.

The patch below should fix that.

Thanks,

tglx
----
diff --git a/kernel/time/clockevents.c b/kernel/time/clockevents.c
index 38959c8..41b7a30 100644
--- a/kernel/time/clockevents.c
+++ b/kernel/time/clockevents.c
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ struct ce_unbind {
*/
u64 clockevent_delta2ns(unsigned long latch, struct clock_event_device *evt)
{
- u64 clc = (u64) latch << evt->shift;
+ u64 tmp, clc = (u64) latch << evt->shift;

if (unlikely(!evt->mult)) {
evt->mult = 1;
@@ -52,6 +52,14 @@ u64 clockevent_delta2ns(unsigned long latch, struct clock_event_device *evt)
do_div(clc, evt->mult);
if (clc < 1000)
clc = 1000;
+
+ /* Avoid rounding artifacts */
+ tmp = (clc * dev->mult) >> dev->shift;
+ while (tmp < (u64) dev->min_delta_ticks) {
+ clc += 1000;
+ tmp = (clc * dev->mult) >> dev->shift;
+ }
+
if (clc > KTIME_MAX)
clc = KTIME_MAX;


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