[Openpxa-users] Linux udelay() is way off

[Marek Vasut]

On Thursday 20 January 2011 17:09:00 Bjørn Forsman wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On my Colibri PXA310, I see that Linux udelay() is only 30 % of the
> length it's supposed to. This is way off and cause problems (e.g.
> 1-Wire device driver breaks). I'm running OpenPXA bootloaders (OBM2 +
> U-Boot) and mainline Linux 2.6.36.
> 
> Any ideas how to fix this?
> 
> Could it be that U-Boot sets up the system clock to something
> different than what Linux "expects" so that loops_per_jiffy becomes
> wrong? I see some clock setup in <u-boot-pxa>/arch/arm/cpu/pxa/start.S
> but I'm not sure what to do with it (yet). I'd like to try out
> different clock speeds to see if it helps. Any pointers?
> 
> I also have a workaround in mind: Try out different lpj= settings on
> the kernel command line until a udelay(1000) actually is 1000 us. Is
> this a sane thing to do?

CCing relevant people.

And no, linux kernel should derive it's timing properly so it's a kernel bug.

Cheers
> 
> Best regards,
> Bjørn Forsman
> 
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