[PATCH 1/3] ARM: S5P: Add s5p_timer support for HRT

[Sangbeom Kim]

Dear Walleij,

Thanks for your suggest.
I will apply your suggest in the next version.
Thanks & Regards,

S.B. Kim

2011/2/26 Linus Walleij <linux.walleij at linaro.org> wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-samsung-soc-owner at vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-samsung-soc-
> owner at vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Linus Walleij
> Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2011 6:34 PM
> To: Sangbeom Kim
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org; linux-samsung-
> soc at vger.kernel.org; kgene.kim at samsung.com; ben-linux at fluff.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ARM: S5P: Add s5p_timer support for HRT
> 
> 2011/2/26 Sangbeom Kim <sbkim73 at samsung.com>:
> > (...)
> > +static void s5p_clockevent_init(void)
> > +{
> > +       unsigned long pclk;
> > +       unsigned long clock_rate;
> > +       unsigned int irq_number;
> > +       struct clk *tscaler;
> > +
> > +       pclk = clk_get_rate(timerclk);
> > +
> > +       tscaler = clk_get_parent(tdiv_event);
> > +
> > +       clk_set_rate(tscaler, pclk / 2);
> > +       clk_set_rate(tdiv_event, pclk / 2);
> > +       clk_set_parent(tin_event, tdiv_event);
> > +
> > +       clock_rate = clk_get_rate(tin_event);
> > +       clock_count_per_tick = clock_rate / HZ;
> > +
> > +       time_event_device.mult =
> > +               div_sc(clock_rate, NSEC_PER_SEC,
time_event_device.shift);
> > +       time_event_device.max_delta_ns =
> > +               clockevent_delta2ns(-1, &time_event_device);
> > +       time_event_device.min_delta_ns =
> > +               clockevent_delta2ns(1, &time_event_device);
> 
> This is a very complicated and inprecise way of doing this nowadays.
> Skip hardcoding the shift value and calculating mult like that and use
> 
> /* Be able to sleep for atleast 4 seconds (usually more) */
> #define EVT_MIN_RANGE 4
> 
> clockevents_calc_mult_shift(&time_event_device,
>                                     clock_rate, EVT_MIN_RANGE);
> 
> > (...)
> > +static void s5p_clocksource_init(void)
> > +{
> > +       unsigned long pclk;
> > +       unsigned long clock_rate;
> > +
> > +       pclk = clk_get_rate(timerclk);
> > +
> > +       clk_set_rate(tdiv_source, pclk / 2);
> > +       clk_set_parent(tin_source, tdiv_source);
> > +
> > +       clock_rate = clk_get_rate(tin_source);
> > +
> > +       s5p_time_setup(timer_source.source_id, TCNT_MAX);
> > +       s5p_time_start(timer_source.source_id, PERIODIC);
> > +
> > +       if (clocksource_register_hz(&time_clocksource, clock_rate))
> > +               panic("%s: can't register clocksource\n",
> time_clocksource.name);
> > +}
> 
> This is more like it :-)
> 
> But you probably also want to add a sched_clock hook for this
> platform too, so you get some nice scheduling resolution.
> 
> I suggest you look at the simple straight-forward driver
> for U300 in arch/arm/mach-u300/timer.c for inspiration.
> It's using the same timer that is used for clocksource for
> sched_clock().
> 
> 
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij
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