Re: [PATCH] [v2] clocksource/drivers/npcm: fix GENMASK and timer operation

[Joe Perches]

On Mon, 2019-07-15 at 18:19 +0300, Avi Fishman wrote:
> clocksource/drivers/npcm: fix GENMASK and timer operation
> 
> NPCM7XX_Tx_OPER GENMASK() changed from (27, 3) to (28, 27)
> 
> in npcm7xx_timer_oneshot() the original NPCM7XX_REG_TCSR0 register was
> read again after masking it with ~NPCM7XX_Tx_OPER so the masking didn't
> take effect.
> 
> npcm7xx_timer_periodic() was not wrong but it wrote to NPCM7XX_REG_TICR0
> in a middle of read modify write to NPCM7XX_REG_TCSR0 which is
> confusing.

You might mention how the original use of GENMASK(3, 27)
was defective or correct without effect.

> Signed-off-by: Avi Fishman <avifishman70@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/clocksource/timer-npcm7xx.c | 9 +++------
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/timer-npcm7xx.c
> b/drivers/clocksource/timer-npcm7xx.c
> index 8a30da7f083b..9780ffd8010e 100644
> --- a/drivers/clocksource/timer-npcm7xx.c
> +++ b/drivers/clocksource/timer-npcm7xx.c
> @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
>  #define NPCM7XX_Tx_INTEN               BIT(29)
>  #define NPCM7XX_Tx_COUNTEN             BIT(30)
>  #define NPCM7XX_Tx_ONESHOT             0x0
> -#define NPCM7XX_Tx_OPER                        GENMASK(27, 3)
> +#define NPCM7XX_Tx_OPER                        GENMASK(28, 27)
>  #define NPCM7XX_Tx_MIN_PRESCALE                0x1
>  #define NPCM7XX_Tx_TDR_MASK_BITS       24
>  #define NPCM7XX_Tx_MAX_CNT             0xFFFFFF
> @@ -84,8 +84,6 @@ static int npcm7xx_timer_oneshot(struct
> clock_event_device *evt)
> 
>         val = readl(timer_of_base(to) + NPCM7XX_REG_TCSR0);
>         val &= ~NPCM7XX_Tx_OPER;
> -
> -       val = readl(timer_of_base(to) + NPCM7XX_REG_TCSR0);
>         val |= NPCM7XX_START_ONESHOT_Tx;
>         writel(val, timer_of_base(to) + NPCM7XX_REG_TCSR0);
> 
> @@ -97,12 +95,11 @@ static int npcm7xx_timer_periodic(struct
> clock_event_device *evt)
>         struct timer_of *to = to_timer_of(evt);
>         u32 val;
> 
> +       writel(timer_of_period(to), timer_of_base(to) + NPCM7XX_REG_TICR0);
> +
>         val = readl(timer_of_base(to) + NPCM7XX_REG_TCSR0);
>         val &= ~NPCM7XX_Tx_OPER;
> -
> -       writel(timer_of_period(to), timer_of_base(to) + NPCM7XX_REG_TICR0);
>         val |= NPCM7XX_START_PERIODIC_Tx;
> -
>         writel(val, timer_of_base(to) + NPCM7XX_REG_TCSR0);
> 
>         return 0;
>