[ARM] 4646/1: AT91: configurable HZ, default to 128

This makes HZ configurable on AT91, following the model used on OMAP.

It defaults to a power of two on AT91rm9200 chips, avoiding rounding
errors which come from dividing a 32 KiHz clock to generate scheduler
irqs; and uses 100 on AT91sam926x chips, using MCK/16 (multi-MHZ).

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Acked-by: Remy Bhmer <linux@bohmer.net>
Acked-by: Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index a04f507..93e40b6 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -657,6 +657,7 @@ config HZ
        default 128 if ARCH_L7200
        default 200 if ARCH_EBSA110 || ARCH_S3C2410
        default OMAP_32K_TIMER_HZ if ARCH_OMAP && OMAP_32K_TIMER
+       default AT91_TIMER_HZ if ARCH_AT91
        default 100
 
 config AEABI

diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-at91/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mach-at91/Kconfig
index 05a9f8a..214733e 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/arm/mach-at91/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-at91/Kconfig
@@ -219,6 +219,22 @@ config AT91_PROGRAMMABLE_CLOCKS
          Select this if you need to program one or more of the PCK0..PCK3
          programmable clock outputs.
 
+config AT91_TIMER_HZ
+       int "Kernel HZ (jiffies per second)"
+       range 32 1024
+       depends on ARCH_AT91
+       default "128" if ARCH_AT91RM9200
+       default "100"
+       help
+         On AT91rm9200 chips where you're using a system clock derived
+         from the 32768 Hz hardware clock, this tick rate should divide
+         it exactly: use a power-of-two value, such as 128 or 256, to
+         reduce timing errors caused by rounding.
+
+         On AT91sam926x chips, or otherwise when using a higher precision
+         system clock (of at least several MHz), rounding is less of a
+         problem so it can be safer to use a decimal values like 100.
+
 endmenu
 
 endif