Re: [PATCH v19 10/15] clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Refactor the timer init code to prepare for GTDT

[Fu Wei <fu.wei@linaro.org>]

Hi Mark,

On 17 January 2017 at 18:30, Fu Wei <fu.wei@linaro.org> wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> On 17 January 2017 at 02:30, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 02:45:58PM +0800, fu.wei@linaro.org wrote:
>>> From: Fu Wei <fu.wei@linaro.org>
>>>
>>> The patch refactor original memory-mapped timer init code:
>>>     (1) Refactor "arch_timer_mem_init", make it become a common code for
>>>         memory-mapped timer init.
>>>     (2) Add a new function "arch_timer_mem_of_init" for DT init.
>>
>> As a general note, please write proper commit messages, describing what
>> the problem is, and why we are making the changes. These bullet points
>> don't add anything to what can be derived from a glance at the code.
>>
>> For this patch, you can use:
>>
>>   clocksource: arm_arch_timer: refactor MMIO timer probing
>>
>>   Currently the code to probe MMIO architected timers mixes DT parsing
>>   with actual poking of hardware. This makes the code harder than
>>   necessary to understand, and makes it difficult to add support for
>>   probing via ACPI.
>>
>>   This patch factors all the DT-specific logic out of
>>   arch_timer_mem_init(), into a new function, arch_timer_mem_of_init().
>>   The former pokes the hardware and determines the suitablility of
>>   frames based on a datastructure populated by the latter.
>>
>>   This cleanly separates the two and will make it possible to add
>>   probing using the ACPI GTDT in subsequent patches.
>
> Great thanks for this upstream tip.
> I have used your example commit message instead.
> It will be in v20.
>
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> +     for_each_available_child_of_node(np, frame_node) {
>>> +             int n;
>>> +             struct arch_timer_mem_frame *frame = &timer_mem->frame[i];
>>> +
>>> +             if (of_property_read_u32(frame_node, "frame-number", &n)) {
>>> +                     pr_err("Missing frame-number\n");
>>> +                     of_node_put(frame_node);
>>> +                     goto out;
>>> +             }
>>> +             frame->frame_nr = n;
>>> +
>>> +             if (of_address_to_resource(frame_node, 0, &res)) {
>>> +                     of_node_put(frame_node);
>>> +                     goto out;
>>> +             }
>>> +             frame->cntbase = res.start;
>>> +             frame->size = resource_size(&res);
>>> +
>>> +             frame->virt_irq = irq_of_parse_and_map(frame_node,
>>> +                                                    ARCH_TIMER_VIRT_SPI);
>>> +             frame->phys_irq = irq_of_parse_and_map(frame_node,
>>> +                                                    ARCH_TIMER_PHYS_SPI);
>>>
>>> -     if (!arch_timer_needs_of_probing())
>>> +             if (++i >= ARCH_TIMER_MEM_MAX_FRAMES)
>>> +                     break;
>>> +     }
>>
>> It would be good if we could warn upon seeing more than
>> ARCH_TIMER_MEM_MAX_FRAMES children, since that's obviously an error.
>
> OK, NP, will use
>
> if (i >= ARCH_TIMER_MEM_MAX_FRAMES) {
>         pr_err(FW_BUG "too many frames, ARMv8 spec only allows 8.\n");

Sorry,  this should be "ARM spec only allows 8.\n"

Not only ARMv8, but also ARMv7


>         goto out;
> }
>
> at the beginning of this loop.
>
> Here will be replaced by  i++;
>
> Great thanks for your suggestion!
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mark.
>
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
>
> Fu Wei
> Software Engineer
> Red Hat



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Best regards,

Fu Wei
Software Engineer
Red Hat