Re: [PATCH v2] omap: timer: Set dmtimer used as clocksource inautoreload mode

From: Tony Lindgren
Date: Wed Aug 10 2011 - 10:37:40 EST


* Hemant Pedanekar <hemantp@xxxxxx> [110810 06:14]:
> If CONFIG_OMAP_32K_TIMER is not selected and dmtimer is used as clocksource, the
> timer stops counting once overflow occurs as it was not set in autoreload mode.
> This results into timekeeping failure: for example, 'sleep 1' at the shell after
> the timer counter overflow would hang.
>
> This patch sets up autoreload when starting the clocksource timer which fixes
> the above issue.

Thanks for updating this, will apply into fixes.

Tony


>
> Signed-off-by: Hemant Pedanekar <hemantp@xxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/arm/mach-omap2/timer.c | 3 ++-
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/timer.c b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/timer.c
> index e964072..cf1de7d 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/timer.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/timer.c
> @@ -293,7 +293,8 @@ static void __init omap2_gp_clocksource_init(int gptimer_id,
> pr_info("OMAP clocksource: GPTIMER%d at %lu Hz\n",
> gptimer_id, clksrc.rate);
>
> - __omap_dm_timer_load_start(clksrc.io_base, OMAP_TIMER_CTRL_ST, 0, 1);
> + __omap_dm_timer_load_start(clksrc.io_base,
> + OMAP_TIMER_CTRL_ST | OMAP_TIMER_CTRL_AR, 0, 1);
> init_sched_clock(&cd, dmtimer_update_sched_clock, 32, clksrc.rate);
>
> if (clocksource_register_hz(&clocksource_gpt, clksrc.rate))
> --
> 1.7.3.5
>
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