[PATCH 4.7 177/186] MIPS: hpet: Increase HPET_MIN_PROG_DELTA and decrease HPET_MIN_CYCLES

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Aug 18 2016 - 10:19:33 EST


4.7-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Huacai Chen <chenhc@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 3ef06653987d4c4536b408321edf0e5caa2a317f upstream.

At first, we prefer to use mips clockevent device, so we decrease the
rating of hpet clockevent device.

For hpet, if HPET_MIN_PROG_DELTA (minimum delta of hpet programming) is
too small and HPET_MIN_CYCLES (threshold of -ETIME checking) is too
large, then hpet_next_event() can easily return -ETIME. After commit
c6eb3f70d44828 ("hrtimer: Get rid of hrtimer softirq") this will cause
a RCU stall.

So, HPET_MIN_PROG_DELTA must be sufficient that we don't re-trip the
-ETIME check -- if we do, we will return -ETIME, forward the next event
time, try to set it, return -ETIME again, and basically lock the system
up. Meanwhile, HPET_MIN_CYCLES doesn't need to be too large, 16 cycles
is enough.

This solution is similar to commit f9eccf24615672 ("clocksource/drivers
/vt8500: Increase the minimum delta").

By the way, this patch ensures hpet count/compare to be 32-bit long.

Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: John Crispin <john@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Steven J . Hill <Steven.Hill@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Fuxin Zhang <zhangfx@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Zhangjin Wu <wuzhangjin@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/13819/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
arch/mips/loongson64/loongson-3/hpet.c | 14 +++++++-------
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/mips/loongson64/loongson-3/hpet.c
+++ b/arch/mips/loongson64/loongson-3/hpet.c
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@
#define SMBUS_PCI_REG64 0x64
#define SMBUS_PCI_REGB4 0xb4

-#define HPET_MIN_CYCLES 64
-#define HPET_MIN_PROG_DELTA (HPET_MIN_CYCLES + (HPET_MIN_CYCLES >> 1))
+#define HPET_MIN_CYCLES 16
+#define HPET_MIN_PROG_DELTA (HPET_MIN_CYCLES * 12)

static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(hpet_lock);
DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct clock_event_device, hpet_clockevent_device);
@@ -157,14 +157,14 @@ static int hpet_tick_resume(struct clock
static int hpet_next_event(unsigned long delta,
struct clock_event_device *evt)
{
- unsigned int cnt;
- int res;
+ u32 cnt;
+ s32 res;

cnt = hpet_read(HPET_COUNTER);
- cnt += delta;
+ cnt += (u32) delta;
hpet_write(HPET_T0_CMP, cnt);

- res = (int)(cnt - hpet_read(HPET_COUNTER));
+ res = (s32)(cnt - hpet_read(HPET_COUNTER));

return res < HPET_MIN_CYCLES ? -ETIME : 0;
}
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ void __init setup_hpet_timer(void)

cd = &per_cpu(hpet_clockevent_device, cpu);
cd->name = "hpet";
- cd->rating = 320;
+ cd->rating = 100;
cd->features = CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_PERIODIC | CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_ONESHOT;
cd->set_state_shutdown = hpet_set_state_shutdown;
cd->set_state_periodic = hpet_set_state_periodic;