[PATCH v3 09/13] clocksource: samsung_pwm_timer: Work around rounding errors in clockevents core
Tomasz Figa
t.figa at samsung.com
Tue Apr 23 11:46:30 EDT 2013
Due to rounding errors in clockevents core (in conversions between ticks
and nsecs), it might happen that the set_next_event callback gets called
with cycles = 0, causing the code to incorrectly program the PWM timer.
This patch modifies the callback to program the timer for 1 tick, if
received tick count value is 0.
Signed-off-by: Tomasz Figa <t.figa at samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park at samsung.com>
---
drivers/clocksource/samsung_pwm_timer.c | 13 +++++++++++++
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/samsung_pwm_timer.c b/drivers/clocksource/samsung_pwm_timer.c
index 92b2f13..0234c8d 100644
--- a/drivers/clocksource/samsung_pwm_timer.c
+++ b/drivers/clocksource/samsung_pwm_timer.c
@@ -176,6 +176,19 @@ static void samsung_time_start(unsigned int channel, bool periodic)
static int samsung_set_next_event(unsigned long cycles,
struct clock_event_device *evt)
{
+ /*
+ * This check is needed to account for internal rounding
+ * errors inside clockevents core, which might result in
+ * passing cycles = 0, which in turn would not generate any
+ * timer interrupt and hang the system.
+ *
+ * Another solution would be to set up the clockevent device
+ * with min_delta = 2, but this would unnecessarily increase
+ * the minimum sleep period.
+ */
+ if (!cycles)
+ cycles = 1;
+
samsung_time_setup(pwm.event_id, cycles);
samsung_time_start(pwm.event_id, false);
--
1.8.2.1
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