Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] clocksource: dw_apb: allow build for architectures other than arm

From: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
To: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@altera.com>,
	Jamie Iles <jamie@jamieiles.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] clocksource: dw_apb: allow build for architectures other than arm
Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 08:32:47 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130531053247.GX5037@tarshish> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51A77A25.8080306@linaro.org>

Hi John,

On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 09:11:17AM -0700, John Stultz wrote:
> On 05/29/2013 10:32 PM, Baruch Siach wrote:
> >On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 01:24:17PM -0700, John Stultz wrote:
> >>On 05/26/2013 05:12 AM, Baruch Siach wrote:
> >>>  static const struct of_device_id osctimer_ids[] __initconst = {
> >>>@@ -124,3 +135,10 @@ void __init dw_apb_timer_init(void)
> >>>  	init_sched_clock();
> >>>  }
> >>>+
> >>>+#ifndef CONFIG_HAVE_SETUP_SCHED_CLOCK
> >>>+unsigned long long notrace sched_clock()
> >>>+{
> >>>+	return read_sched_clock() * sched_clock_mult;
> >>>+}
> >>>+#endif
> >>Also, can you try to condense the number of #ifndef
> >>CONFIG_HAVE_SETUP_SCHED_CLOCK checks to one, and consolidate the
> >>needed functions all in that one conditional?
> >Thanks for your comments. I'll rework the patch and resubmit.
> >
> >I've just noticed that I have a bigger problem. read_sched_clock() returns
> >u32, not u64. This means that in a rate of, say, 100MHz it will wrap around
> >after a little more than 40 seconds. Would it make sense to put ARM's 32 bin
> >sched_clock extension code (arch/arm/kernel/sched_clock.c) is a common place
> >(maybe drivers/clocksource), and use that? There seems to be nothing ARM
> >specific in this code, after all.
> 
> Yea, working out an actual generic sched_clock implementation is
> something I'd like to see done.
> 
> Though I'd really rather we not toss yet another chunk of
> infrastructure in the drivers/clocksource directory. Instead we
> should probably have a kernel/time/sched_clock.c.
> 
> Then its just the issue of tying that and the clocksource code
> together so you just register existing capable clocksources with a
> SCHED_CLOCK flag or via a different registration hook.
> 
> I don't think it will be an easy job, but if you want to give it a
> shot, I'd be quite interested in reviewing the patches!

Although I'd very much like to contribute in this area, I'm afraid I don't 
have time for this now. My problem is much narrower in scope, though, and I 
think it can be solved without a generic sched_clock implementation at first 
step. All I want is to use a 32 bit counter for sched_clock. The code enabling 
this is currently only available for ARM (arch/arm/kernel/sched_clock.c). 
Should this part of the code move to kernel/time/sched_clock.c?

baruch

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