Re: [PATCH] clocksource/drivers/pistachio: Fix wrong calculated clocksource read value

From: Jisheng Zhang
Date: Wed Dec 16 2015 - 02:15:45 EST


Dear Daniel,

On Tue, 15 Dec 2015 21:59:30 +0100 Daniel Lezcano wrote:

> On 11/25/2015 04:42 PM, Jisheng Zhang wrote:
> > Let's assume the counter value is 0xf000000, the pistachio clocksource
> > read cycles function would return 0xffffffff0fffffff, but it should
> > return 0xfffffff.
> >
> > We fix this issue by calculating bitwise-not counter, then cast to
> > cycle_t.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hi Jisheng,
>
> I tried to reproduce this behavior on x86_64 but without success.
>
> On which architecture did you produce this result ? Do you have a simple
> test program to check with ?

I have no HW platforms with pistachio, just read the code and run the
following test code in x86_64 and x86_32:

#include <stdio.h>
unsigned long long pistachio_clocksource_read_cycles()
{
unsigned int counter = 0xf000000;
return ~(unsigned long long)counter;
}
int main()
{
printf("%llx\n", pistachio_clocksource_read_cycles());
return 0;
}

Thanks,
Jisheng
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