Re: [PATCH v2 -next] powerpc: kernel/time.c - cleanup warnings

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Alexandre,

On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 11:18 PM Alexandre Belloni
<alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 23/03/2021 05:12:57-0400, He Ying wrote:
> > We found these warnings in arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c as follows:
> > warning: symbol 'decrementer_max' was not declared. Should it be static?
> > warning: symbol 'rtc_lock' was not declared. Should it be static?
> > warning: symbol 'dtl_consumer' was not declared. Should it be static?
> >
> > Declare 'decrementer_max' and 'rtc_lock' in powerpc asm/time.h.
> > Rename 'rtc_lock' in drviers/rtc/rtc-vr41xx.c to 'vr41xx_rtc_lock' to
> > avoid the conflict with the variable in powerpc asm/time.h.
> > Move 'dtl_consumer' definition behind "include <asm/dtl.h>" because it
> > is declared there.
> >
> > Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: He Ying <heying24@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > v2:
> > - Instead of including linux/mc146818rtc.h in powerpc kernel/time.c, declare
> >   rtc_lock in powerpc asm/time.h.
> >
>
> V1 was actually the correct thing to do. rtc_lock is there exactly
> because chrp and maple are using mc146818 compatible RTCs. This is then
> useful because then drivers/char/nvram.c is enabled. The proper fix
> would be to scrap all of that and use rtc-cmos for those platforms as
> this drives the RTC properly and exposes the NVRAM for the mc146818.
>
> Or at least, if there are no users for the char/nvram driver on those
> two platforms, remove the spinlock and stop enabling CONFIG_NVRAM or
> more likely rename the symbol as it seems to be abused by both chrp and
> powermac.

IIRC, on CHRP LongTrail, NVRAM was inherited from CHRP's Mac ancestry,
not from CHRP's PC ancestry, and thus NVRAM is not the one in the
mc146818-compatible RTC.

http://users.telenet.be/geertu/Linux/PPC/DeviceTree.html confirms that,
showing that nvram is a different device node than rtc.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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