RFC: [PATCH] clocksource: tcb: fix min_delta calculation

Marc Kleine-Budde mkl at pengutronix.de
Thu Apr 25 09:36:50 EDT 2013


On 04/23/2013 03:08 PM, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote:
> The commit
> 
>     77cc982 clocksource: use clockevents_config_and_register() where possible
> 
> switches from manually calculating min_delta_ns (and others) and
> clockevents_register_device() to automatic calculation via
> clockevents_config_and_register(). During this conversation the "+ 1" in
> 
>     min_delta_ns = clockevent_delta2ns(1, &clkevt.clkevt) + 1;
> 
> was lost. This leads to problems with schedule_delayed_work() with a delay of
> "1". Resulting in the work not scheduled in time.
> 
> This patch fixes the problem by increasing the min_delta to "2" ticks.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl at pengutronix.de>

Who will take care of this patch?

Marc

> ---
>  drivers/clocksource/tcb_clksrc.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/tcb_clksrc.c b/drivers/clocksource/tcb_clksrc.c
> index 8a61872..7cf6dc7 100644
> --- a/drivers/clocksource/tcb_clksrc.c
> +++ b/drivers/clocksource/tcb_clksrc.c
> @@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ static void __init setup_clkevents(struct atmel_tc *tc, int clk32k_divisor_idx)
>  
>  	clkevt.clkevt.cpumask = cpumask_of(0);
>  
> -	clockevents_config_and_register(&clkevt.clkevt, 32768, 1, 0xffff);
> +	clockevents_config_and_register(&clkevt.clkevt, 32768, 2, 0xffff);
>  
>  	setup_irq(irq, &tc_irqaction);
>  }
> 


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