linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V9 13/21] csky: Library functions

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Message-ID: <20181018031024.GA15088@guoren-Inspiron-7460>
Date:   Thu, 18 Oct 2018 11:10:24 +0800
From:   Guo Ren <ren_guo@...ky.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        gregkh <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
        DTML <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>, c-sky_gcc_upstream@...ky.com,
        linfei_chen@...ky.com, Mao Han <han_mao@...ky.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V9 13/21] csky: Library functions

On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 05:24:36PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 5:02 AM Guo Ren <ren_guo@...ky.com> wrote:
> 
> > +++ b/arch/csky/lib/delay.c
> > @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
> > +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> > +// Copyright (C) 2018 Hangzhou C-SKY Microsystems co.,ltd.
> > +#include <linux/kernel.h>
> > +#include <linux/module.h>
> > +#include <linux/init.h>
> > +#include <linux/delay.h>
> > +
> > +void __delay(unsigned long loops)
> > +{
> > +       asm volatile (
> > +               "mov r0, r0\n"
> > +               "1:declt %0\n"
> > +               "bf     1b"
> > +               : "=r"(loops)
> > +               : "0"(loops));
> > +}
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(__delay);
> > +
> > +void __const_udelay(unsigned long xloops)
> > +{
> > +       unsigned long long loops;
> > +
> > +       loops = (unsigned long long)xloops * loops_per_jiffy * HZ;
> > +
> > +       __delay(loops >> 32);
> > +}
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(__const_udelay);
> 
> I can't find any indication we discussed this part before. Can you
> explain (in the
> changelog and in a reply) if there is a reliable high-resolution clocksource
> available in the architecture? If you can read the elapsed time here instead of
> using the loops_per_jiffy estimate, that would make this more robust, as
> well as speed up the boot.
> 
> If you can't do that in general, that's fine, and you can add my
I'll add TODO list here, __delay should use get_cycles() and we didn't
implement __udelay() __ndelay() ... We'll improve it next.

Best Regards
 Guo Ren