Nobody is maintaining SMTC anymore and there also seems to be no userbase.
Which is a pity - the SMTC technology primarily developed by Kevin D.
Kissell <kevink@paralogos.com> is an ingenious demonstration for the MT
ASE's power and elegance.
Based on Markos Chandras <Markos.Chandras@imgtec.com> patch
https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/6719/ which while very similar did
no longer apply cleanly when I tried to merge it plus some additional
post-SMTC cleanup - SMTC was a feature as tricky to remove as it was to
merge once upon a time.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
o Move current_cpu_type() to a separate header file
o #ifdefing on supported CPU types lets modern GCC know that certain
code in callers may be discarded ideally turning current_cpu_type() into
a function returning a constant.
o Use current_cpu_type() rather than direct access to struct cpuinfo_mips.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Steven J. Hill <Steven.Hill@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/5833/
This is a fix for a bug introduced with commit
447cdf2628, submitted as archived here:
http://www.linux-mips.org/cgi-bin/mesg.cgi?a=linux-mips&i=20080312235002.c717dde3.yoichi_yuasa%40tripeaks.co.jp
regrettably with no further explanation.
The issue is with the CP0 Count register read erratum present on R4000 and
some R4400 processors. If this erratum is present, then a read from this
register that happens around the time it reaches the value stored in the
CP0 Compare register causes a CP0 timer interrupt that is supposed to
happen when the values in the two registers match to be missed. The
implication for the chips affected is the CP0 timer can be used either as
a source of a timer interrupt (a clock event) or as a source of a
high-resolution counter (a clock source), but not both at a time.
The erratum does not affect timer interrupt operation itself, because in
this case the CP0 Count register is only read while the timer interrupt
has already been raised, while high-resolution counter references happen
at random times.
Additionally some systems apparently have issues with the timer interrupt
line being routed externally and not following the usual CP0 Count/Compare
semantics. In this case we don't want to use the R4k clock event.
We've meant to address the erratum and the timer interrupt routing issue
in time_init, however the commit referred to above broke our solution.
What we currently have is we enable the R4k clock source if the R4k clock
event initialization has succeeded (the timer is present and has no timer
interrupt routing issue) or there is no CP0 Count register read erratum.
Which gives the following boolean matrix:
clock event | count erratum => clock source
------------+---------------+--------------
0 | 0 | 1 (OK)
0 | 1 | 0 (bug!) -> no interference, could use
1 | 0 | 1 (OK)
1 | 1 | 1 (bug!) -> can't use, interference
What we want instead is to enable the R4k clock source if there is no CP0
Count register read erratum (obviously) or the R4k clock event
initialization has *failed* -- because in the latter case we won't be
using the timer interrupt anyway, so we don't care about any interference
CP0 Count reads might cause with the interrupt. This corresponds to the
following boolean matrix:
clock event | count erratum => clock source
------------+---------------+--------------
0 | 0 | 1
0 | 1 | 1
1 | 0 | 1
1 | 1 | 0
This is implemented here, effectively reverting the problematic commit,
and a short explanation is given next to code modified so that the
rationale is known to future readers and confusion is prevented from
happening here again.
It is worth noting that mips_clockevent_init returns 0 upon success while
cpu_has_mfc0_count_bug returns 0 upon failure. This is because the former
function returns an error code while the latter returns a boolean value.
To signify the difference I have therefore chosen to compare the result of
the former call explicitly against 0.
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/5799/
Having received another series of whitespace patches I decided to do this
once and for all rather than dealing with this kind of patches trickling
in forever.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
These files are not modules, but were including module.h only for
EXPORT_SYMBOL and/or THIS_MODULE. Now that we have the lightweight
export.h, use it in these kinds of cases.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Replace the MIPS functions of mult/shift factor calculation for clock
events and clock sources with inline functions which call the generic
functions. The minimum guaranteed conversion range is set to 4 seconds
which corresponds to the current MIPS implementation.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@stericsson.com>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091111134229.807255074@linutronix.de>
This patch unexports the null_perf_irq() symbol, and simultaneously
makes this function static.
Signed-off-by: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
No users for the rtc_mips_set_time() routine exist outside of the
core kernel code. Therefore, EXPORT_SYMBOL(rtc_mips_set_time) is
useless, and this patch removes it.
Signed-off-by: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
This seems as reasonable assumption and gets some SNI machines to work
which currently must rely on the cp0 counter as clocksource.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@am.sony.com> reports:
> In linux-2.6.24-rc4 the Toshiba RBTX4927 hangs on boot.
>
> The cause is that plat_time_init() from arch/mips/tx4927/common/
> tx4927_setup.c does not override the __weak plat_time_init() from
> arch/mips/kernel/time.c. This is due to a compiler bug in gcc 4.1.1. The
> bug is reported to not exist in earlier versions of gcc, and to be fixed in
> 4.1.2. The problem is that the __weak plat_time_init() is empty and thus
> gets optimized out of existence (thus the linker is never given the option
> to replace the __weak function).
[ He meant the call to plat_time_init() from time_init() gets optimized away ]
> For more info on the gcc bug see
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27781
>
> The attached patch is one workaround. Another possible workaround
[ His patch adds -fno-unit-at-a-time for time.c ]
> would be to change the __weak plat_time_init() to be a non-empty
> function.
The __weak definition of plat_time_init was only ever meant to be a
migration helper to keep platforms that don't have a plat_time_init
compiling. A few greps says that all platforms now supply their own
plat_time_init() so the weak definition is no longer needed. So I
instead delete it.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
In particular as-is it's not suited for multicore and mutiprocessors
systems where there is on guarantee that the counter are synchronized
or running from the same clock at all. This broke Sibyte and probably
others since the "[MIPS] Handle R4000/R4400 mfc0 from count register."
commit.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
The R4000 and R4400 have an errata where if the cp0 count register is read
in the exact moment when it matches the compare register no interrupt will
be generated.
This bug may be triggered if the cp0 count register is being used as
clocksource and the compare interrupt as clockevent. So a simple
workaround is to avoid using the compare for both facilities on the
affected CPUs.
This is different from the workaround suggested in the old errata documents;
at some opportunity probably the official version should be implemented
and tested. Another thing to find out is which processor versions
exactly are affected. I only have errata documents upto R4400 V3.0
available so for the moment the code treats all R4000 and R4400 as broken.
This is potencially a problem for some machines that have no other decent
clocksource available; this workaround will cause them to fall back to
another clocksource, worst case the "jiffies" source.
* Do not include unnecessary headers.
* Do not mention time.README.
* Do not mention mips_timer_ack.
* Make clocksource_mips static. It is now dedicated to c0_timer.
* Initialize clocksource_mips.read statically.
* Remove null_hpt_read.
* Remove an argument of plat_timer_setup. It is just a placeholder.
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
cycles_per_jiffy was only ever getting assigned and the function pointer
not being called anymore and mips_timer_ack had gotten similarly stale. I
leave the remaining assignments unfixed as a lighthouse pointing platform
maintainers to what needs a rewrite. These changes make null_timer_ack()
unreferenced, so delete that too.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Some processors offer the option of using the interrupt on which
normally the count / compare interrupt would be signaled as a normal
interupt pin. Previously this required some ugly hackery for each
system which is much easier done by a quick and simple probe.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Extremly low values are of dubious usefulness anyway but in this case
they actually were killing Qemu which simply wasn't able to complete
mips_next_event() within 0x30 100MHz cycles even on fast hosts.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
