Re: [PATCH] RTC: RK808: Work around hardware bug on November 31st

[Doug Anderson]

Hi,

On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 6:50 PM, Doug Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Chris,
>
> On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 5:33 PM, Chris Zhong <zyw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi Doug
>>
>> RK808 has a shadowed register for saving a "frozen" RTC time.
>> When we setting "GET_TIME" to 1, the time will save in this shadowed
>> register. So if we do not set the "GET_TIME", we always get the last time.
>>
>> read the old time before "get_time", and then read the time again for new
>> time. If the old time earlier than 12.1 && new time later than 12.1, we
>> should
>> +1 day for the correct rtc time.
>>
>> On the other hand, we should set the "GET_TIME" after rk808_rtc_set_time,
>> for restore the time before suspend/shut_down.
>
> Ah, good idea using the shadow registers.  The whole point of the
> shadow registers is to enable atomic read of time, right?  So if the
> clock ticks as you are reading 23:59:59 you don't end up reading
> 23:59:00 or 24:59:59 (you'll get either 23:59:59 or 24:00:00).  So
> right, time read will now be:
>
> 1. Read GET_TIME.  Confirm it's 1.
> 2. Read the time.
> 3. Set GET_TIME to 0.
> 4. Set GET_TIME to 1.
> 5. Read the time.
>
> If time from #2 < 11/31 and time from #5 >= 11/31 then we do the
> adjust.  If GET_TIME wasn't 1 in step #1 then we won't do any
> adjusting unless the time is actually 11/31.
>
> Between steps #4 and #5 we'll need to add a small delay since old code
> used to use the setting to 0 as a delay (as commented).
>
> We should presumably always leave GET_TIME as 1 unless we're actively
> reading the time for the most reliability.  Also, if we've already
> read the time this bootup, we can certainly optimize the above by
> skipping #1 and #2.

Oh, but also we still need to know whether to adjust the alarm.  I
think you said that all existing rk808 chips have this bug and that
you'll set a bit (to be determined later) if/when this bug is fixed.
So we still need to assume that all rk808 chips have this bug...

-Doug
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