Re: [PATCH] drm/amd/display: Use msleep instead of udelay for 8ms wait

[Koenig, Christian]

Am 25.06.19 um 16:12 schrieb Lucas Stach:
> Hi Harry,
>
> Am Dienstag, den 25.06.2019, 10:00 -0400 schrieb Harry Wentland:
>> arm32's udelay only allows values up to 2000 microseconds. msleep
>> does the trick for us here as there is no problem if this isn't
>> microsecond accurate and takes a tad longer.
> A "tad" longer in this case means likely double the intended wait.
> Please see "SLEEPING FOR ~USECS OR SMALL MSECS ( 10us - 20ms)" in
> Documentation/timers/timers-howto.txt.

Oh, thanks so much for the link! I was searching desperately for this 
the last time this came up and couldn't find it.

Clearly going to remember now where to find that.

Thanks,
Christian.

>
> The sleep here should use usleep_range. In general the DC code seems to
> use quite a lot of the udelay busy waits. I doubt that many of those
> occurrences are in atomic context, so could easily use a sleeping wait.
>
> Digging further this seems to apply across amdgpu, not only DC.
>
> Regards,
> Lucas
>
>> Signed-off-by: Harry Wentland <harry.wentland@xxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  Âdrivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/core/dc_link.c | 2 +-
>>  Â1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/core/dc_link.c
>> b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/core/dc_link.c
>> index 4c31930f1cdf..f5d02f89b3f9 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/core/dc_link.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/core/dc_link.c
>> @@ -548,7 +548,7 @@ static void
>> read_edp_current_link_settings_on_detect(struct dc_link *link)
>>  Â			break;
>>  Â		}
>>   
>> -		udelay(8000);
>> +		msleep(8);
>>  Â	}
>>   
>>  Â	ASSERT(status == DC_OK);