On 07/06/2017 at 15:05:03 +0200, Michael Thalmeier wrote:
> On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 05:56:31PM +0200, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 18/05/2017 at 16:45:21 +0200, Michael Thalmeier wrote:
> > > To detect when the backup power domain has lost power a software defined bit
> > > is set in one of the general purpose persistent registers when writing a new
> > > time into the rtc.
> > > When reading the time this bit is checked to determine if a power fail has
> > > happened since the last time the rtc time was set.
> > >
> >
> > I'm kind of concerned that other people may want to use those register
> > for something else but I don't currently have anything better to
> > suggest.
> >
> > The other concern is that when updating the kernel, this will make amm
> > the rtc report that the time is invalid until the next update. So this
> > should be disabled by default.
>
> How would you think this is best to disable by default? With a config
> option or with a module parameter?
> Either way would also allow to make the bit mask in the PERSISTENT2
> register configurable, so one can use whichever bit is still unused by
> some other applications.
>
What you could do is export the persistent registers with nvmem. Then
you can define a cell in DT using a bit in persistent2 and use it from
the rtc driver itself.
If the cell is defined, then the driver know it has been configured to
detect power failure.
> >
> > > When we detect a power fail we return -ENODATA.
> > >
> >
> > All the other drivers return -EINVAL in that case.
> >
> > > Signed-off-by: Michael Thalmeier <michael.thalmeier@xxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > drivers/rtc/rtc-stmp3xxx.c | 9 +++++++++
> > > 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-stmp3xxx.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-stmp3xxx.c
> > > index d578e40..51330ec 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-stmp3xxx.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-stmp3xxx.c
> > > @@ -62,6 +62,9 @@
> > > /* missing bitmask in headers */
> > > #define STMP3XXX_RTC_PERSISTENT1_FORCE_UPDATER 0x80000000
> > >
> > > +#define STMP3XXX_RTC_PERSISTENT2 0x80
> > > +#define STMP3XXX_RTC_PERSISTENT2_VALID_TIME 0x01
> > > +
> > > struct stmp3xxx_rtc_data {
> > > struct rtc_device *rtc;
> > > void __iomem *io;
> > > @@ -160,6 +163,10 @@ static int stmp3xxx_rtc_gettime(struct device *dev, struct rtc_time *rtc_tm)
> > > if (ret)
> > > return ret;
> > >
> > > + if (!(readl(rtc_data->io + STMP3XXX_RTC_PERSISTENT2) &
> > > + STMP3XXX_RTC_PERSISTENT2_VALID_TIME))
> > > + return -ENODATA;
> > > +
> > > rtc_time_to_tm(readl(rtc_data->io + STMP3XXX_RTC_SECONDS), rtc_tm);
> > > return 0;
> > > }
> > > @@ -169,6 +176,8 @@ static int stmp3xxx_rtc_set_mmss(struct device *dev, unsigned long t)
> > > struct stmp3xxx_rtc_data *rtc_data = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
> > >
> > > writel(t, rtc_data->io + STMP3XXX_RTC_SECONDS);
> > > + writel(STMP3XXX_RTC_PERSISTENT2_VALID_TIME,
> > > + rtc_data->io + STMP3XXX_RTC_PERSISTENT2 + STMP_OFFSET_REG_SET);
> > > return stmp3xxx_wait_time(rtc_data);
> > > }
> > >
> > > --
> > > 2.9.2
> > >
> >
> > --
> > Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons
> > Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
> > http://free-electrons.com
>
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>
> Michael Thalmeier
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