[PATCH] clocksource: sirf: disable counter before re-setting it

Barry Song 21cnbao at gmail.com
Mon Aug 18 02:24:20 PDT 2014


2014-07-23 22:03 GMT+08:00 Barry Song <21cnbao at gmail.com>:
> From: Hao Liu <Hao.Liu at csr.com>
>
> according to HW spec, we have to disable counter before setting
> it, if we don't this, in pressure test, sometimes the timer might
> not generate interrupt any more.
>
> and this patch also fixes a typo for register set by changing 0x7
> to 0x3. 0x7 is loop mode in HW, but here we are using oneshot 0x3.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hao Liu <Hao.Liu at csr.com>
> Signed-off-by: Barry Song <Baohua.Song at csr.com>
> ---

Hi Daniel,
did you miss this one?

>  drivers/clocksource/timer-marco.c |    5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/timer-marco.c b/drivers/clocksource/timer-marco.c
> index 330e930..caf7a20 100644
> --- a/drivers/clocksource/timer-marco.c
> +++ b/drivers/clocksource/timer-marco.c
> @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ static inline void sirfsoc_timer_count_disable(int idx)
>  /* enable count and interrupt */
>  static inline void sirfsoc_timer_count_enable(int idx)
>  {
> -       writel_relaxed(readl_relaxed(sirfsoc_timer_base + SIRFSOC_TIMER_32COUNTER_0_CTRL + 4 * idx) | 0x7,
> +       writel_relaxed(readl_relaxed(sirfsoc_timer_base + SIRFSOC_TIMER_32COUNTER_0_CTRL + 4 * idx) | 0x3,
>                 sirfsoc_timer_base + SIRFSOC_TIMER_32COUNTER_0_CTRL + 4 * idx);
>  }
>
> @@ -103,6 +103,9 @@ static int sirfsoc_timer_set_next_event(unsigned long delta,
>  {
>         int cpu = smp_processor_id();
>
> +       /* disable timer first, then modify the related registers */
> +       sirfsoc_timer_count_disable(cpu);
> +
>         writel_relaxed(0, sirfsoc_timer_base + SIRFSOC_TIMER_COUNTER_0 +
>                 4 * cpu);
>         writel_relaxed(delta, sirfsoc_timer_base + SIRFSOC_TIMER_MATCH_0 +
> --
> 1.7.9.5
>

-barry



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