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Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 13:33:55 +0100
From: Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@...il.com>
To: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 04/15] clocksource: Add ARM System timer driver
2015-03-27 9:36 GMT+01:00 Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>:
> On 03/26/2015 09:19 PM, Maxime Coquelin wrote:
>>
>> Hi Daniel,
>>
>> Thanks for the review. Please find my answers below.
>>
>> 2015-03-26 10:50 GMT+01:00 Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>:
>>>
>>> On 03/12/2015 10:55 PM, Maxime Coquelin wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> From: Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@...il.com>
>>>>
>>>> This patch adds clocksource support for ARMv7-M's System timer,
>>>> also known as SysTick.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@...il.com>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Maxime,
>>>
>>> the driver looks good. Three comments below.
>>>
>>> -- Daniel
>>>
>>>
>
> [ ... ]
>
>
>>>> +static void __init system_timer_of_register(struct device_node *np)
>>>> +{
>>>> + struct clk *clk;
>>>> + void __iomem *base;
>>>> + u32 rate = 0;
>>>> + int ret;
>>>> +
>>>> + base = of_iomap(np, 0);
>>>> + if (!base) {
>>>> + pr_warn("system-timer: invalid base address\n");
>>>> + return;
>>>> + }
>>>> +
>>>> + clk = of_clk_get(np, 0);
>>>> + if (!IS_ERR(clk)) {
>>>> + ret = clk_prepare_enable(clk);
>>>> + if (ret) {
>>>> + clk_put(clk);
>>>> + goto out_unmap;
>>>> + }
>>>> +
>>>> + rate = clk_get_rate(clk);
>>>> + }
>>>> +
>>>> + /* If no clock found, try to get clock-frequency property */
>>>> + if (!rate) {
>>>> + ret = of_property_read_u32(np, "clock-frequency",
>>>> &rate);
>>>> + if (ret)
>>>> + goto out_unmap;
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Shouldn't be 'goto out_clk_disable' ?
>>
>>
>> No, because I assumed !rate means we failed to get the clock.
>> Actually, clk_get_rate could return 0, so relying on rate value is not
>> safe.
>>
>> I propose to get clock-frequency property if IS_ERR(clk).
>>
>> Is it fine for you?
>
>
> Why not invert the conditions ? If the 'clock-frequency' is specified in the
> DT then it overrides the clk_get_rate(). So the resulting code will be:
>
> ret = of_property_read_u32(np, "clock-frequency", &rate);
> if (ret) {
> clk = of_clk_get(np, 0);
> if (IS_ERR(clk))
> goto out_unmap;
>
> ret = clk_prepare_enable(clk);
> if (ret)
> goto out_clk_put;
>
> rate = clk_get_rate(clk);
> if (!rate)
> goto out_clk_unprepare;
>
> }
Ok, it looks sensible.
I will do this in next version.
>
>
>
>>>> + }
>>>> +
>>>> + writel_relaxed(SYSTICK_LOAD_RELOAD_MASK, base + SYST_RVR);
>>>> + writel_relaxed(SYST_CSR_ENABLE, base + SYST_CSR);
>>>> +
>>>> + ret = clocksource_mmio_init(base + SYST_CVR, "arm_system_timer",
>>>> rate,
>>>> + 200, 24, clocksource_mmio_readl_down);
>>>> + if (ret) {
>>>> + pr_err("failed to init clocksource (%d)\n", ret);
>>>> + goto out_clk_disable;
>>>> + }
>>>> +
>>>> + pr_info("ARM System timer initialized as clocksource\n");
>>>> +
>>>> + return;
>>>> +
>>>> +out_clk_disable:
>>>> + if (!IS_ERR(clk))
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Why do you need this check ?
>>
>>
>> To handle the case were no clock was found, but a clk-frequency value
>> was provided.
>>
>>>
>>> It isn't missing a clk_put ?
>>
>>
>> Right, thanks for spotting this.
>>
>> I wonder if it makes sense to implement the error path.
>> If we fail to initialize the clocksource, the system will be unusable.
>>
>> Maybe I should just perform a BUG_ON() in the error cases, as most of
>> the other clocksource drivers do.
>> What is your view?
>
>
> I prefer to not BUG_ON in the init functions because it already happen that
> drivers were bugging at init time and when a driver was reused on another
> platform with several timers available, the board was not able to boot
> because one timer was not used, hence not defined in the DT. I don't know if
> that could be the case for this platform but I prefer to keep thing going
> smoothly and return from init even if that lead to a kernel hang. Of course,
> the errors must be displayed (pr_warn, pr_err, pr_notice, etc ...).
Ok, let's keep the error path, that's much cleaner indeed.
>
>>>
>>>> + clk_disable_unprepare(clk);
>>>> +out_unmap:
>>>> + iounmap(base);
>>>> + WARN(ret, "ARM System timer register failed (%d)\n", ret);
>
>
> pr_warn
Sure, will fix.
Thanks,
Maxime
>
> Thanks
>
> -- Daniel
>
>
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