[PATCH 3/4] mx25: fix time accounting

Baruch Siach baruch at tkos.co.il
Wed May 12 06:45:23 EDT 2010


Hi Sascha,

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:46:42AM +0200, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 08:06:28AM +0300, Baruch Siach wrote:
> > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 05:43:49PM +0200, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:58:21PM +0200, Baruch Siach wrote:
> > > > The gpt_clk rate function doesn't consider the PER divider. This causes a
> > > > significant drift in time accounting. Fix this by introducing the correct rate
> > > > calculation function.
> > > 
> > > Should have tested this one. In fact with this patch applied my clock
> > > goes wrong.
> > > 
> > > The i.MX Timer code makes sure the gpt clock is sourced from the ipg
> > > clock (GPTCR[6:8] = 1), so the behaviour should be correct the way it
> > > was before this patch. Any idea why it was wrong on your hardware? Have
> > > you changed the GPTCR bits?
> > 
> > No. My current platform is the i.MX25 PDK. I've added the following to my 
> > mx25pdk_init():
> > 
> > debugfs_create_x32("gptcr", 0444, NULL,
> >     (u32*)MX25_IO_ADDRESS(MX25_GPT1_BASE_ADDR));
> > 
> > When the system is running I get:
> > 
> > # cat /debugfs/gptcr 
> > 0x00000249
> > 
> > That is GPTCR[6:8] = 1.
> > 
> > The same clock calculation is being done in the platform code of the Freescale 
> > supplied kernel (now based on 2.6.31).  Can you get this one running on your 
> > platform?
> 
> I just checked the fsl 2.6.31 source. They really pass the per_clk to
> the timer, but they also change the timer source to MX3_TCTL_CLK_PER
> (2<<6).

Strange. The i.MX25 Reference Manual says nothing about PER in the CLKSRC 
field of GPTCR. The relevant text from 28.5.2.1 "GPT Control Register (GPTCR)" 
is:

000 No clock
001 ipg_clk
010 ipg_clk_highfreq
011 ipp_ind_clkin (external clock from pad)
1xx ipg_clk_32k

So ipg_clk_highfreq == PER clock? Can anyone from Freescale shed some light on 
this?

baruch

> Here are the relevant bits from arch/arm/plat-mxc/time.c in the fsl
> 2.6.31 source:
> 
> /* MX31, MX35 */
> #define MX3_TCTL_WAITEN		(1 << 3)
> #define MX3_TCTL_CLK_IPG	(1 << 6)
> #define MX3_TCTL_CLK_PER	(2 << 6)
> #define MX3_TCTL_FRR		(1 << 9)
> #define MX3_IR			0x0c
> #define MX3_TSTAT		0x08
> #define MX3_TSTAT_OF1		(1 << 0)
> #define MX3_TCN			0x24
> #define MX3_TCMP		0x10
> 
> #define timer_is_v2()	(!(cpu_is_mx1() || cpu_is_mx2()) || cpu_is_mx25())
> 
> void __init mxc_timer_init(struct clk *timer_clk, void __iomem *base, int irq)
> {
> 	...
> 
> 	if (timer_is_v2())
> 		tctl_val = MX3_TCTL_CLK_PER | MX3_TCTL_FRR | MX3_TCTL_WAITEN | MXC_TCTL_TEN;
> 	else
> 		tctl_val = MX1_2_TCTL_FRR | MX1_2_TCTL_CLK_PCLK1 | MXC_TCTL_TEN;
> 
> 	...
> }
> 
> I wonder what is going wrong here.

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