From: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com> To: "Hiremath, Vaibhav" <hvaibhav@ti.com> Cc: "Hilman, Kevin" <khilman@ti.com>, "linux-omap@vger.kernel.org" <linux-omap@vger.kernel.org>, "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>, "marc.zyngier@arm.com" <marc.zyngier@arm.com>, "johnstul@us.ibm.com" <johnstul@us.ibm.com>, "Balbi, Felipe" <balbi@ti.com>, "Cousson, Benoit" <b-cousson@ti.com>, Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>, Paul Walmsley <paul@pwsan.com>, "DebBarma, Tarun Kanti" <tarun.kanti@ti.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ARM: OMAP2+: 32k-counter: Use hwmod lookup to check presence of 32k timer Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:20:25 +0800 [thread overview] Message-ID: <CACVXFVPTsFY7UJMH5jZa16V0KYEZB=o7WRYqVEYyNJw1tMq-yw@mail.gmail.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <79CD15C6BA57404B839C016229A409A831823816@DBDE01.ent.ti.com> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 7:29 PM, Hiremath, Vaibhav <hvaibhav@ti.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 17:14:30, Ming Lei wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 7:11 PM, Hiremath, Vaibhav <hvaibhav@ti.com> wrote: >> > >> > I think you made very good point here. With the above patch, we are almost missing the capability of registering dmtimer as a clocksource for OMAP. >> > It will always use 32k-counter, and never fall back to dmtimer. >> > >> > Then the only options we have here is, >> > >> > 1) Register both the timers, 32k-counter and dmtimer for clocksource; let >> > Kernel pick up best rating clocksource out of these two. >> > >> > In case of OMAP1/2/3/4, kernel will use dmtimer, since it has better >> > Rating. User can choose the 32k-counter clocksource via bootargs. >> > >> > Impact: without bootargs for clocksource selection, kernel will choose >> > dmtimer, impacting loss of time during suspend/resume. >> > >> > >> > 2) Let the current code be as is, means, the clocksource registration will >> > Happened based on "#ifdef CONFIG_OMAP_32K_TIMER" and this option >> > selection will be Controlled by Kconfig rules. >> >> How about the 3rd option? >> >> 3), take the way in your patch 1) at default, but will switch to >> register dmtimer >> directly and bypass 32k-counter if user need it via kernel parameter. >> >> As far as I can think of, the situations required for dmtimer are high-frequency >> perf sample and high precision trace points, so looks it is OK to take >> 32k-counter >> at default. >> > But if you register both the timers (dmtimer & 32ksync), then initially kernel will only pick up dmtimer, as this has better rating. And late in Looks not so, I found that 32ksync is always selected as the default clocksource if both are registered. > the boot sequence clocksource switch will happen, base on > kernel parameter (clocksource=). > > So logically dmtimer will be always used as a default here. Not so at least on my Pandaboard. Thanks, -- Ming Lei -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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From: tom.leiming@gmail.com (Ming Lei) To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Subject: [PATCH 1/3] ARM: OMAP2+: 32k-counter: Use hwmod lookup to check presence of 32k timer Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:20:25 +0800 [thread overview] Message-ID: <CACVXFVPTsFY7UJMH5jZa16V0KYEZB=o7WRYqVEYyNJw1tMq-yw@mail.gmail.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <79CD15C6BA57404B839C016229A409A831823816@DBDE01.ent.ti.com> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 7:29 PM, Hiremath, Vaibhav <hvaibhav@ti.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 17:14:30, Ming Lei wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 7:11 PM, Hiremath, Vaibhav <hvaibhav@ti.com> wrote: >> > >> > I think you made very good point here. With the above patch, we are almost missing the capability of registering dmtimer as a clocksource for OMAP. >> > It will always use 32k-counter, and never fall back to dmtimer. >> > >> > Then the only options we have here is, >> > >> > 1) Register both the timers, 32k-counter and dmtimer for clocksource; let >> > ? Kernel pick up best rating clocksource out of these two. >> > >> > ? In case of OMAP1/2/3/4, kernel will use dmtimer, since it has better >> > ? Rating. User can choose the 32k-counter clocksource via bootargs. >> > >> > ? Impact: without bootargs for clocksource selection, kernel will choose >> > ? ? dmtimer, impacting loss of time during suspend/resume. >> > >> > >> > 2) Let the current code be as is, means, the clocksource registration will >> > ? Happened based on "#ifdef CONFIG_OMAP_32K_TIMER" and this option >> > ? selection will be Controlled by Kconfig rules. >> >> How about the 3rd option? >> >> 3), take the way in your patch 1) at default, but will switch to >> register dmtimer >> directly and bypass 32k-counter if user need it via kernel parameter. >> >> As far as I can think of, the situations required for dmtimer are high-frequency >> perf sample and high precision trace points, so looks it is OK to take >> 32k-counter >> at default. >> > But if you register both the timers (dmtimer & 32ksync), then initially kernel will only pick up dmtimer, as this has better rating. And late in Looks not so, I found that 32ksync is always selected as the default clocksource if both are registered. > the boot sequence clocksource switch will happen, base on > kernel parameter (clocksource=). > > So logically dmtimer will be always used as a default here. Not so at least on my Pandaboard. Thanks, -- Ming Lei
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-23 8:20 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 146+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2012-01-19 14:28 [PATCH 0/3] ARM: OMAP1/2+: 32k-timer: Add hwmod lookup for 32k-timer Vaibhav Hiremath 2012-01-19 14:28 ` Vaibhav Hiremath 2012-01-19 14:28 ` [PATCH 1/3] ARM: OMAP2+: 32k-counter: Use hwmod lookup to check presence of 32k timer Vaibhav Hiremath 2012-01-19 14:28 ` Vaibhav Hiremath 2012-01-23 23:38 ` Kevin Hilman 2012-01-23 23:38 ` Kevin Hilman 2012-01-24 8:53 ` Hiremath, Vaibhav 2012-01-24 8:53 ` Hiremath, Vaibhav 2012-01-24 17:47 ` Kevin Hilman 2012-01-24 17:47 ` Kevin Hilman 2012-02-01 8:00 ` Hiremath, Vaibhav 2012-02-01 8:00 ` Hiremath, Vaibhav 2012-03-13 11:37 ` Ming Lei 2012-03-13 11:37 ` Ming Lei 2012-03-19 11:11 ` Hiremath, Vaibhav 2012-03-19 11:11 ` Hiremath, Vaibhav 2012-03-19 11:44 ` Ming Lei 2012-03-19 11:44 ` Ming Lei 2012-03-19 12:15 ` Santosh Shilimkar 2012-03-19 12:15 ` Santosh Shilimkar 2012-03-21 11:42 ` Hiremath, Vaibhav 2012-03-21 11:42 ` Hiremath, Vaibhav 2012-03-21 14:00 ` Shilimkar, Santosh 2012-03-21 14:00 ` Shilimkar, Santosh 2012-03-28 14:16 ` Hiremath, Vaibhav 2012-03-28 14:16 ` Hiremath, Vaibhav 2012-03-28 14:20 ` Shilimkar, Santosh 2012-03-28 14:20 ` Shilimkar, Santosh 2012-03-28 14:37 ` Hiremath, Vaibhav 2012-03-28 14:37 ` Hiremath, Vaibhav 2012-03-28 14:49 ` Shilimkar, Santosh 2012-03-28 14:49 ` Shilimkar, Santosh 2012-03-30 6:34 ` Hiremath, Vaibhav 2012-03-30 6:34 ` Hiremath, Vaibhav 2012-03-30 7:41 ` Shilimkar, Santosh 2012-03-30 7:41 ` Shilimkar, Santosh 2012-03-30 8:32 ` Hiremath, Vaibhav 2012-03-30 8:32 ` Hiremath, Vaibhav 2012-03-30 8:38 ` Santosh Shilimkar 2012-03-30 8:38 ` Santosh Shilimkar 2012-03-30 9:12 ` Hiremath, Vaibhav 2012-03-30 9:12 ` Hiremath, Vaibhav 2012-03-30 9:20 ` Shilimkar, Santosh 2012-03-30 9:20 ` Shilimkar, Santosh 2012-03-30 9:28 ` Hiremath, Vaibhav 2012-03-30 9:28 ` Hiremath, Vaibhav 2012-03-30 9:42 ` Shilimkar, Santosh 2012-03-30 9:42 ` Shilimkar, Santosh 2012-03-30 11:29 ` Hiremath, Vaibhav 2012-03-30 11:29 ` Hiremath, Vaibhav 2012-03-30 11:35 ` Santosh Shilimkar 2012-03-30 11:35 ` Santosh Shilimkar 2012-03-31 1:30 ` Ming Lei 2012-03-31 1:30 ` Ming Lei 2012-03-31 6:30 ` Shilimkar, Santosh 2012-03-31 6:30 ` Shilimkar, Santosh 2012-03-31 8:39 ` Ming Lei 2012-03-31 8:39 ` Ming Lei 2012-03-31 19:10 ` Shilimkar, Santosh 2012-03-31 19:10 ` Shilimkar, Santosh 2012-04-01 1:39 ` Ming Lei 2012-04-01 1:39 ` Ming Lei 2012-04-01 5:53 ` Shilimkar, Santosh 2012-04-01 5:53 ` Shilimkar, Santosh 2012-04-02 18:35 ` Kevin Hilman 2012-04-02 18:35 ` Kevin Hilman 2012-04-03 5:50 ` Shilimkar, Santosh 2012-04-03 5:50 ` Shilimkar, Santosh 2012-04-03 15:35 ` Hiremath, Vaibhav 2012-04-03 15:35 ` Hiremath, Vaibhav 2012-04-04 9:04 ` Shilimkar, Santosh 2012-04-04 9:04 ` Shilimkar, Santosh 2012-04-04 10:39 ` Hiremath, Vaibhav 2012-04-04 10:39 ` Hiremath, Vaibhav 2012-04-05 9:36 ` Hiremath, Vaibhav 2012-04-05 9:36 ` Hiremath, Vaibhav 2012-04-05 9:52 ` Russell King - ARM Linux 2012-04-05 9:52 ` Russell King - ARM Linux 2012-04-05 10:31 ` Hiremath, Vaibhav 2012-04-05 10:31 ` Hiremath, Vaibhav 2012-04-05 10:46 ` Santosh Shilimkar 2012-04-05 10:46 ` Santosh Shilimkar 2012-04-05 21:33 ` Kevin Hilman 2012-04-05 21:33 ` Kevin Hilman 2012-04-06 5:21 ` Hiremath, Vaibhav 2012-04-06 5:21 ` Hiremath, Vaibhav 2012-04-06 18:04 ` Tony Lindgren 2012-04-06 18:04 ` Tony Lindgren 2012-04-09 6:19 ` Hiremath, Vaibhav 2012-04-09 6:19 ` Hiremath, Vaibhav 2012-04-09 20:18 ` Jon Hunter 2012-04-09 20:18 ` Jon Hunter 2012-04-10 5:42 ` Hiremath, Vaibhav 2012-04-10 5:42 ` Hiremath, Vaibhav 2012-04-10 8:44 ` Russell King - ARM Linux 2012-04-10 8:44 ` Russell King - ARM Linux 2012-04-10 8:57 ` Santosh Shilimkar 2012-04-10 8:57 ` Santosh Shilimkar 2012-04-10 9:29 ` Russell King - ARM Linux 2012-04-10 9:29 ` Russell King - ARM Linux 2012-04-10 9:51 ` Shilimkar, Santosh 2012-04-10 9:51 ` Shilimkar, Santosh 2012-04-10 21:03 ` Jon Hunter 2012-04-10 21:03 ` Jon Hunter 2012-04-11 1:00 ` Ming Lei 2012-04-11 1:00 ` Ming Lei 2012-04-11 7:47 ` Shilimkar, Santosh 2012-04-11 7:47 ` Shilimkar, Santosh 2012-04-06 21:18 ` Kevin Hilman 2012-04-06 21:18 ` Kevin Hilman 2012-04-09 6:25 ` Hiremath, Vaibhav 2012-04-09 6:25 ` Hiremath, Vaibhav 2012-03-21 11:29 ` Hiremath, Vaibhav 2012-03-21 11:29 ` Hiremath, Vaibhav 2012-03-23 8:20 ` Ming Lei [this message] 2012-03-23 8:20 ` Ming Lei 2012-03-30 6:39 ` Hiremath, Vaibhav 2012-03-30 6:39 ` Hiremath, Vaibhav 2012-03-05 22:55 ` Tony Lindgren 2012-03-05 22:55 ` Tony Lindgren 2012-03-07 9:48 ` Hiremath, Vaibhav 2012-03-07 9:48 ` Hiremath, Vaibhav 2012-03-09 17:58 ` Hiremath, Vaibhav 2012-03-09 17:58 ` Hiremath, Vaibhav 2012-03-12 9:39 ` Felipe Balbi 2012-03-12 9:39 ` Felipe Balbi 2012-03-12 9:48 ` Hiremath, Vaibhav 2012-03-12 9:48 ` Hiremath, Vaibhav 2012-03-12 10:17 ` Felipe Balbi 2012-03-12 10:17 ` Felipe Balbi 2012-03-12 10:39 ` Hiremath, Vaibhav 2012-03-12 10:39 ` Hiremath, Vaibhav 2012-01-19 14:28 ` [PATCH 2/3] ARM: OMAP2/3: Add idle_st bits for ST_32KSYNC timer to prcm-common header Vaibhav Hiremath 2012-01-19 14:28 ` Vaibhav Hiremath 2012-03-05 22:56 ` Tony Lindgren 2012-03-05 22:56 ` Tony Lindgren 2012-03-07 9:49 ` Hiremath, Vaibhav 2012-03-07 9:49 ` Hiremath, Vaibhav 2012-01-19 14:28 ` [PATCH 3/3] ARM: OMAP2+: hwmod data: Add 32k-sync timer data to hwmod database Vaibhav Hiremath 2012-01-19 14:28 ` Vaibhav Hiremath 2012-01-23 8:47 ` [PATCH 0/3] ARM: OMAP1/2+: 32k-timer: Add hwmod lookup for 32k-timer Hiremath, Vaibhav 2012-01-23 8:47 ` Hiremath, Vaibhav 2012-03-05 22:57 ` Tony Lindgren 2012-03-05 22:57 ` Tony Lindgren 2012-03-07 9:50 ` Hiremath, Vaibhav 2012-03-07 9:50 ` Hiremath, Vaibhav
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