Re: [PATCH 1/5] clocksource: st_lpc: Add LPC timer as a clocksource.

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Hello Thomas,

On 04/21/2015 11:56 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
On Fri, 17 Apr 2015, Peter Griffin wrote:
+/* Low Power Timer */
+#define LPC_LPT_LSB_OFF		0x400
+#define LPC_LPT_MSB_OFF		0x404
+#define LPC_LPT_START_OFF	0x408
+
+struct st_lpc {
+	struct clk *clk;
+	void __iomem *iomem_cs;
+};
+
+static struct st_lpc *st_lpc;
+
+static u64 notrace st_lpc_counter_read(void)
+{
+	u64 counter;
+	u32 lower;
+	u32 upper, old_upper;
+
+	upper = readl_relaxed(st_lpc->iomem_cs + LPC_LPT_MSB_OFF);
+	do {
+		old_upper = upper;
+		lower = readl_relaxed(st_lpc->iomem_cs + LPC_LPT_LSB_OFF);
+		upper = readl_relaxed(st_lpc->iomem_cs + LPC_LPT_MSB_OFF);
+	} while (upper != old_upper);
+
+	counter = upper;
+	counter <<= 32;
+	counter |= lower;
+	return counter;

What's the point of this exercise? The kernel can handle 32bit
clocksources nicely. So why do you want to artificially expand them to
64bit by adding useless loops and hoops to a hotpath?

I agree we should use only the lower 32 bits.
This timer is moreover clocked at a slow rate (30MHz), so we won't have too much interrupts.

Peter, doing that, you could use something like this directly:
clocksource_mmio_init(st_lpc->iomem_cs + LPC_LPT_LSB_OFF, "st_lpc_timer", rate,
            200, 24, clocksource_mmio_readl_down);

Thanks,
Maxime


Thanks,

	tglx

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