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Message-ID: <20150520183703.GS31753@codeaurora.org>
Date:	Wed, 20 May 2015 11:37:03 -0700
From:	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>
To:	Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>
Cc:	Yingjoe Chen <yingjoe.chen@...iatek.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
	"devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
	Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@....com>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Marc Carino <marc.ceeeee@...il.com>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org,
	Sascha Hauer <kernel@...gutronix.de>,
	srv_heupstream <srv_heupstream@...iatek.com>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/9] clocksource: mediatek: Use GPT as sched clock
 source

On 05/20, Matthias Brugger wrote:
> 2015-05-20 16:05 GMT+02:00 Yingjoe Chen <yingjoe.chen@...iatek.com>:
> > On Wed, 2015-05-20 at 13:02 +0200, Matthias Brugger wrote:
> >> 2015-05-16 9:58 GMT+02:00 Yingjoe Chen <yingjoe.chen@...iatek.com>:
> >> > When cpu is in deep idle, arch timer will stop counting. Setup GPT as
> >> > sched clock source so it can keep counting in idle.
> >> >
> >> > Signed-off-by: Yingjoe Chen <yingjoe.chen@...iatek.com>
> >> > ---
> >> >  drivers/clocksource/mtk_timer.c | 10 ++++++++++
> >> >  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> >> >
> >> > diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/mtk_timer.c b/drivers/clocksource/mtk_timer.c
> >> > index 91206f9..fe7cf72 100644
> >> > --- a/drivers/clocksource/mtk_timer.c
> >> > +++ b/drivers/clocksource/mtk_timer.c
> >> > @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
> >> >  #include <linux/of.h>
> >> >  #include <linux/of_address.h>
> >> >  #include <linux/of_irq.h>
> >> > +#include <linux/sched_clock.h>
> >> >  #include <linux/slab.h>
> >> >
> >> >  #define GPT_IRQ_EN_REG         0x00
> >> > @@ -59,6 +60,13 @@ struct mtk_clock_event_device {
> >> >         struct clock_event_device dev;
> >> >  };
> >> >
> >> > +static void __iomem *gpt_base __read_mostly;
> >> > +
> >> > +static u64 notrace mtk_read_sched_clock(void)
> >> > +{
> >> > +       return readl_relaxed(gpt_base + TIMER_CNT_REG(GPT_CLK_SRC));
> >> > +}
> >> > +
> >> >  static inline struct mtk_clock_event_device *to_mtk_clk(
> >> >                                 struct clock_event_device *c)
> >> >  {
> >> > @@ -243,6 +251,8 @@ static void __init mtk_timer_init(struct device_node *node)
> >> >         mtk_timer_setup(evt, GPT_CLK_SRC, TIMER_CTRL_OP_FREERUN, 1);
> >> >         clocksource_mmio_init(evt->gpt_base + TIMER_CNT_REG(GPT_CLK_SRC),
> >> >                         node->name, rate, 300, 32, clocksource_mmio_readl_up);
> >> > +       gpt_base = evt->gpt_base;
> >>
> >> This is really hacky. We should clean up the code and provide
> >> mtk_clock_event_device globally.
> >> Please add the patch below, which does exactly this.
> >> ---- 8< ---------------- >8 ------
> >> From 631e7bf4e5d9456d0bb4a29b2dee4b84e8c052bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> >> From: Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>
> >> Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 12:43:16 +0200
> >> Subject: [PATCH] clocksource: mediatek: Define mtk_clock_event_device globally
> >>
> >> Sched clock code, especially sched_clock_register does not allow to pass a
> >> pointer to actual_read_sched_clock. So if in the driver the register base
> >> address is not globally defined, we are not able to read the scheduler
> >> clock register. This patch sets the mtk_clock_event_device struct globally
> >> for the driver, to be able to read the register.
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm not sure using a global device pointer is any better.
> 
> Why not?
> 
> >
> > Actually, almost every user of sched_clock_register need to keep a
> > global register base address. Does it make sense to fix this in
> > sched_clock_register?
> >
> 
> Not sure about that. Normally you have just one timer in your system,
> so you don't get any problems to declare driver private structs
> globally on a per driver basis.
> Looking on other drivers I have seen a bit of everything, no struct at
> all, a global pointer to the driver private struct, only iomem
> pointers global and the rest of the driver private struct as is.
> It seems that there is no uniform way so up to you. Just please don't
> use two times the exactly same iomem pointer, one in the driver
> private struct and one for the scheduler clock. :)
> 

Typically the point of doing the container_of design on the
clockevent is to keep cache locality of all the data. This way,
when the clockevent is programmed it's cheap pointer math on a
pointer that's hot in the cache instead of a global pointer
dereference and likely cache miss to find the data necessary.

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