ARM: 7685/1: delay: use private ticks_per_jiffy field for timer-based delay ops
authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Thu, 28 Mar 2013 10:17:55 +0000 (11:17 +0100)
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Wed, 3 Apr 2013 15:45:50 +0000 (16:45 +0100)
Commit 70264367a243 ("ARM: 7653/2: do not scale loops_per_jiffy when
using a constant delay clock") fixed a problem with our timer-based
delay loop, where loops_per_jiffy is scaled by cpufreq yet used directly
by the timer delay ops.

This patch fixes the problem in a more elegant way by keeping a private
ticks_per_jiffy field in the delay ops, independent of loops_per_jiffy
and therefore not subject to scaling. The loop-based delay continues to
use loops_per_jiffy directly, as it should.

Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
arch/arm/include/asm/delay.h
arch/arm/kernel/smp.c
arch/arm/lib/delay.c

index 720799f..dff714d 100644 (file)
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ extern struct arm_delay_ops {
        void (*delay)(unsigned long);
        void (*const_udelay)(unsigned long);
        void (*udelay)(unsigned long);
-       bool const_clock;
+       unsigned long ticks_per_jiffy;
 } arm_delay_ops;
 
 #define __delay(n)             arm_delay_ops.delay(n)
index 79078ed..1f2cccc 100644 (file)
@@ -673,9 +673,6 @@ static int cpufreq_callback(struct notifier_block *nb,
        if (freq->flags & CPUFREQ_CONST_LOOPS)
                return NOTIFY_OK;
 
-       if (arm_delay_ops.const_clock)
-               return NOTIFY_OK;
-
        if (!per_cpu(l_p_j_ref, cpu)) {
                per_cpu(l_p_j_ref, cpu) =
                        per_cpu(cpu_data, cpu).loops_per_jiffy;
index 6b93f6a..64dbfa5 100644 (file)
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ static void __timer_delay(unsigned long cycles)
 static void __timer_const_udelay(unsigned long xloops)
 {
        unsigned long long loops = xloops;
-       loops *= loops_per_jiffy;
+       loops *= arm_delay_ops.ticks_per_jiffy;
        __timer_delay(loops >> UDELAY_SHIFT);
 }
 
@@ -73,11 +73,13 @@ void __init register_current_timer_delay(const struct delay_timer *timer)
                pr_info("Switching to timer-based delay loop\n");
                delay_timer                     = timer;
                lpj_fine                        = timer->freq / HZ;
-               loops_per_jiffy                 = lpj_fine;
+
+               /* cpufreq may scale loops_per_jiffy, so keep a private copy */
+               arm_delay_ops.ticks_per_jiffy   = lpj_fine;
                arm_delay_ops.delay             = __timer_delay;
                arm_delay_ops.const_udelay      = __timer_const_udelay;
                arm_delay_ops.udelay            = __timer_udelay;
-               arm_delay_ops.const_clock       = true;
+
                delay_calibrated                = true;
        } else {
                pr_info("Ignoring duplicate/late registration of read_current_timer delay\n");