[PATCHv3 0/4] ARM: Fixing udelay() for SMP and non-SMP systems

[Stephen Boyd]

These patches fixing the udelay() issue pointed out on
arm-lkml[1][2]. A quick recap: some SMP machines can scale
their CPU frequencies independent of one another. loops_per_jiffy
is calibrated globally and used in __const_udelay(). If one CPU
is running faster than what the loops_per_jiffy is calculated
(or scaled) for, udelay() will be incorrect and not wait long
enough (or too long). A similar problem occurs if the cpu
frequency is scaled during a udelay() call.

We could fix this issue a couple ways, wholesale replacement
of __udelay() and __const_udelay() (see [2] for that approach),
or replacement of __delay() (this series). Option 1 can fail if
anybody uses udelay() before memory is mapped and also duplicates
most of the code in asm/delay.h. It also needs to hardcode the
timer tick frequency, which can sometimes be inaccurate. The
benefit is that loops_per_jiffy stays the same and thus BogoMIPS
is unchanged.  Option 2 can't fail since the __delay() loop is
replaced after memory is mapped in, but it suffers from a low
BogoMIPS when timers are clocked slowly. It also more accurately
calculates the timer tick frequency through the use of
calibrate_delay_direct().

Russell, I'm planning on submitting these to the patch queue
unless I hear objections.

Changes since v2:
 * Additional patch using the timer based delay

Changes since v1:
 * likely() in delay.c
 * comment fixup for read_current_timer_delay_loop()
 * cosmetic improvements to commit text

Stephen Boyd (4):
  ARM: Translate delay.S into (mostly) C
  ARM: Allow machines to override __delay()
  ARM: Implement a timer based __delay() loop
  msm: timer: Migrate to timer based __delay()

 arch/arm/include/asm/delay.h           |    5 ++-
 arch/arm/kernel/armksyms.c             |    4 --
 arch/arm/lib/delay.S                   |   65 ------------------------
 arch/arm/lib/delay.c                   |   86 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 arch/arm/mach-msm/include/mach/timex.h |    1 +
 arch/arm/mach-msm/timer.c              |   16 ++++++-
 6 files changed, 106 insertions(+), 71 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 arch/arm/lib/delay.S
 create mode 100644 arch/arm/lib/delay.c

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