Re: [RFC PATCH v2 09/14] m68k: hp300: Remove hp300_gettimeoffset()

[Kars de Jong]

Op ma 19 nov. 2018 om 02:10 schreef Finn Thain <fthain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> hp300_gettimeoffset() never checks the timer interrupt flag and will
> fail to notice when the timer counter gets reloaded. That means the
> clock could jump backwards.
>
> Remove this code and leave this platform on the 'jiffies' clocksource.
> Note that this amounts to a regression in clock precision. However,
> adopting the 'jiffies' clocksource does resolve the monotonicity issue.
>
> Signed-off-by: Finn Thain <fthain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> hp300_gettimeoffset() cannot be used in a clocksource conversion
> unless it can be made monotonic. I can't fix this without knowing the
> details of the timer implementation, such as the relationship between
> the timer count and the interrupt flag.

I don't really like this regression...

According to NetBSD sources, there are 3 timers in the chip
(originally an MC6840 PTM). Timer 1 is used as the system timer, timer
3 runs at the same rate and is unused on Linux (on NetBSD it is used
as the statistics/profiling timer), and timer 3 is connected to timer
2 so you can make a 32-bit timer out of the two timers together (also
unused on Linux).

Timers 1 counts down at 25 MHz. The interrupt flag is set when the
counter reaches 0 after which it is automatically reloaded and starts
counting down again.

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>  arch/m68k/hp300/time.c | 19 -------------------
>  1 file changed, 19 deletions(-)