A boundary exists beyond which the timer frequency becomes high enough that timer interrupts saturate the system and either cause it to slow to a crawl or stop functioning entirely. Where that boundary lies depends upon a number of factors such as the overhead of each interrupt and the overall speed of the CPU, but correlates strongly with the clock frequency at which the CPU runs. When running on emulators during bringup or debug of a CPU that clock frequency is very low, which results in the boundary at which the timer frequency becomes unsustainable being very low. The current minimum of 48Hz pushes against boundary in certain situations in current systems. Allow the kernel to be configured for a 24Hz timer frequency in order to avoid problems on such slow running systems. Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/mips/Kconfig | 17 ++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/mips/Kconfig b/arch/mips/Kconfig index e3aa5b0..79cac90 100644 --- a/arch/mips/Kconfig +++ b/arch/mips/Kconfig @@ -2529,6 +2529,9 @@ choice help Allows the configuration of the timer frequency. + config HZ_24 + bool "24 HZ" if SYS_SUPPORTS_24HZ || SYS_SUPPORTS_ARBIT_HZ + config HZ_48 bool "48 HZ" if SYS_SUPPORTS_48HZ || SYS_SUPPORTS_ARBIT_HZ @@ -2552,6 +2555,9 @@ choice endchoice +config SYS_SUPPORTS_24HZ + bool + config SYS_SUPPORTS_48HZ bool @@ -2575,13 +2581,18 @@ config SYS_SUPPORTS_1024HZ config SYS_SUPPORTS_ARBIT_HZ bool - default y if !SYS_SUPPORTS_48HZ && !SYS_SUPPORTS_100HZ && \ - !SYS_SUPPORTS_128HZ && !SYS_SUPPORTS_250HZ && \ - !SYS_SUPPORTS_256HZ && !SYS_SUPPORTS_1000HZ && \ + default y if !SYS_SUPPORTS_24HZ && \ + !SYS_SUPPORTS_48HZ && \ + !SYS_SUPPORTS_100HZ && \ + !SYS_SUPPORTS_128HZ && \ + !SYS_SUPPORTS_250HZ && \ + !SYS_SUPPORTS_256HZ && \ + !SYS_SUPPORTS_1000HZ && \ !SYS_SUPPORTS_1024HZ config HZ int + default 24 if HZ_24 default 48 if HZ_48 default 100 if HZ_100 default 128 if HZ_128 -- 2.5.3
