From: 周琰杰 <zhouyanjie@wanyeetech.com>
To: Paul Cercueil <paul@crapouillou.net>
Cc: tsbogend@alpha.franken.de, mturquette@baylibre.com,
sboyd@kernel.org, robh+dt@kernel.org, linux-mips@vger.kernel.org,
devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-clk@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dongsheng.qiu@ingenic.com,
aric.pzqi@ingenic.com, rick.tyliu@ingenic.com,
sihui.liu@ingenic.com, jun.jiang@ingenic.com,
sernia.zhou@foxmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] MIPS: CI20: Add second percpu timer for SMP.
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2021 00:32:51 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210626003251.02312e1e@zhouyanjie-virtual-machine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <67L9VQ.H1SRDC272GKW@crapouillou.net>
Hi Paul,
于 Fri, 25 Jun 2021 16:47:30 +0100
Paul Cercueil <paul@crapouillou.net> 写道:
> Hi Zhou,
>
> Le ven., juin 25 2021 at 23:19:42 +0800, 周琰杰
> <zhouyanjie@wanyeetech.com> a écrit :
> > Hi Paul,
> >
> > 于 Fri, 25 Jun 2021 12:31:17 +0100
> > Paul Cercueil <paul@crapouillou.net> 写道:
> >
> >> Hi Zhou,
> >>
> >> Le jeu., juin 24 2021 at 23:06:29 +0800, 周琰杰 (Zhou Yanjie)
> >> <zhouyanjie@wanyeetech.com> a écrit :
> >> > 1.Add a new TCU channel as the percpu timer of core1, this is to
> >> > prepare for the subsequent SMP support. The newly added
> >> > channel will not adversely affect the current single-core state.
> >> > 2.Adjust the position of TCU node to make it consistent with the
> >> > order in jz4780.dtsi file.
> >>
> >> That's a bit superfluous, the order matters when adding new nodes,
> >> but once they are added, moving them around only cause annoyance.
> >>
> >> >
> >> > Signed-off-by: 周琰杰 (Zhou Yanjie) <zhouyanjie@wanyeetech.com>
> >> > ---
> >> >
> >> > Notes:
> >> > v2:
> >> > New patch.
> >> >
> >> > v2->v3:
> >> > No change.
> >> >
> >> > arch/mips/boot/dts/ingenic/ci20.dts | 21 +++++++++++----------
> >> > 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> >> >
> >> > diff --git a/arch/mips/boot/dts/ingenic/ci20.dts
> >> > b/arch/mips/boot/dts/ingenic/ci20.dts
> >> > index 8877c62..70005cc 100644
> >> > --- a/arch/mips/boot/dts/ingenic/ci20.dts
> >> > +++ b/arch/mips/boot/dts/ingenic/ci20.dts
> >> > @@ -118,6 +118,17 @@
> >> > assigned-clock-rates = <48000000>;
> >> > };
> >> >
> >> > +&tcu {
> >> > + /*
> >> > + * 750 kHz for the system timers and 3 MHz for the
> >> > clocksources,
> >> > + * use channel #0 and #1 for the per cpu system timers,
> >> > and use
> >> > + * channel #2 for the clocksource.
> >> > + */
> >> > + assigned-clocks = <&tcu TCU_CLK_TIMER0>, <&tcu
> >> > TCU_CLK_TIMER1>,
> >> > + <&tcu
> >> > TCU_CLK_TIMER2>, <&tcu TCU_CLK_OST>;
> >> > + assigned-clock-rates = <750000>, <750000>, <3000000>,
> >> > <3000000>;
> >>
> >> Ideally you'd set TIMER1 to 3 MHz and TIMER2 to 750 kHz,
> >> otherwise it
> >> kind of breaks support for older kernels (they would still boot,
> >> but with a very slow clocksource). So in the new DTS you could use
> >> the timer0 clock for CPU #0, timer1 for the clocksource, and
> >> timer2+ for cpus > 0.
> >
> > I checked the ingenic-timer driver, and it seems that the last TCU
> > channel is always used as the clocksource in the driver, so it seems
> > that we can only use timer2 as the clocksource in smp mode. Maybe we
> > should add a note for smp is closed in the comment. And I found
> > that I missed a problem, Nikolaus Schaller once reported that
> > because the frequency of the tcu timer (only 16bit) used to provide
> > the clocksource
> > is too high, there will be a chance that the system will get stuck
> > before the clocksource is switched to ost. And reducing the
> > clocksource
> > to 750kz can prevent it from happening. I will add this part to v4.
> > When this part is added, both clockevent and clocksource will be
> > 750kHz, but the 750kHz clocksource is only temporary, because it
> > will then switch to the clocksource provided by ost, and ost works
> > at 3MHz.
>
> Ok, then first change the clocksource to 750 kHz, then update it with
> timer2.
Sure, I will do it in v4.
Thanks and best regards!
>
> Cheers,
> -Paul
>
> >
> > Thanks and best regards!
> >
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> -Paul
> >>
> >> > +};
> >> > +
> >> > &mmc0 {
> >> > status = "okay";
> >> >
> >> > @@ -522,13 +533,3 @@
> >> > bias-disable;
> >> > };
> >> > };
> >> > -
> >> > -&tcu {
> >> > - /*
> >> > - * 750 kHz for the system timer and 3 MHz for the
> >> > clocksource,
> >> > - * use channel #0 for the system timer, #1 for the
> >> > clocksource.
> >> > - */
> >> > - assigned-clocks = <&tcu TCU_CLK_TIMER0>, <&tcu
> >> > TCU_CLK_TIMER1>,
> >> > - <&tcu TCU_CLK_OST>;
> >> > - assigned-clock-rates = <750000>, <3000000>, <3000000>;
> >> > -};
> >> > --
> >> > 2.7.4
> >> >
> >>
> >
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-25 16:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-24 15:06 [PATCH v3 0/4] Misc Ingenic patches 周琰杰 (Zhou Yanjie)
2021-06-24 15:06 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] MIPS: X1830: Respect cell count of common properties 周琰杰 (Zhou Yanjie)
2021-06-24 15:06 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] dt-bindings: clock: Add documentation for MAC PHY control bindings 周琰杰 (Zhou Yanjie)
2021-06-25 11:18 ` Paul Cercueil
2021-06-24 15:06 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] MIPS: Ingenic: Add MAC syscon nodes for Ingenic SoCs 周琰杰 (Zhou Yanjie)
2021-06-24 15:06 ` [PATCH v3 4/4] MIPS: CI20: Add second percpu timer for SMP 周琰杰 (Zhou Yanjie)
2021-06-25 11:31 ` Paul Cercueil
2021-06-25 12:14 ` 周琰杰
2021-06-25 15:19 ` 周琰杰
2021-06-25 15:47 ` Paul Cercueil
2021-06-25 16:32 ` 周琰杰 [this message]
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