On Tue 12 Jul 09:53 CDT 2022, Johan Hovold wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 07:28:26PM -0700, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
> > On Mon 11 Jul 01:56 PDT 2022, Johan Hovold wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, Jul 07, 2022 at 09:08:58AM -0700, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
> > > > The timer node needs ranges specified to map the 1-cell children to the
> > > > 2-cell address range used in /soc. This addition never made it into the
> > > > patch that was posted and merged, so add it now.
> > > >
> > > > Fixes: 152d1faf1e2f ("arm64: dts: qcom: add SC8280XP platform")
> > > > Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > ---
> > > > arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sc8280xp.dtsi | 1 +
> > > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sc8280xp.dtsi b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sc8280xp.dtsi
> > > > index 2bdb42c88311..37a4cd6f85b6 100644
> > > > --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sc8280xp.dtsi
> > > > +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sc8280xp.dtsi
> > > > @@ -1667,6 +1667,7 @@ timer@17c20000 {
> > > > reg = <0x0 0x17c20000 0x0 0x1000>;
> > > > #address-cells = <1>;
> > > > #size-cells = <1>;
> > > > + ranges = <0 0 0 0x20000000>;
> > >
> > > While addressing the current issue, this looks odd to me. Why not use a
> > > non-zero parent bus address here instead?
> > >
> >
> > I guess we could express the frames relative the timer range, but that
> > would imply that anyone porting downstream dts snippets would have to
> > translate these addresses - or more likely would end up just copying the
> > existing cases.
> >
> > > And please use hex notation consistently for the addresses.
> >
> > That seems like a reasonable ask, I can fix that up. But on both
> > accounts this matches what I merged for all the other platforms in:
> >
> > 458ebdbb8e5d ("arm64: dts: qcom: timer should use only 32-bit size")
> >
> >
> > So I guess we'll also need to go back and fix up the style of all the
> > other platforms - just because we're not allowed to express the frames
> > in 64-bits according to the binding...
>
> Would have been easier to just amend the binding. I don't think that
> #size-cells = 1 constraint is set in stone as it was added when
> converting to DT schema.
>
Rob disagrees with this idea:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAL_JsqJMMCBnukFZLJ8X14s1PwqT=VEwKjDVj8mm4h55pZpcuw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> I also don't think you need to fixup the hex notation elsewhere, it's
> quite inconsistent currently, but no need to make it worse.
>
I'll prefix the 0s with some 0x in this case and we can care for the
other platforms some other day...
> But you probably should amend the commit message and mention that this
> fixes time keeping. I had recently noticed that something was off
> (journals rotating, and erratic cursor blinking) but didn't realise that
> timers were broken until you posted this.
>
That sounds like a good idea, thanks for the suggestion.
Regards,
Bjorn
