linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/6] dt-bindings: timer: add Tegra210 timer

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Date:   Mon, 28 Jan 2019 11:09:25 +0800
From:   Joseph Lo <josephl@...dia.com>
To:     Jon Hunter <jonathanh@...dia.com>,
        Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>
CC:     <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] dt-bindings: timer: add Tegra210 timer

On 1/25/19 8:01 PM, Jon Hunter wrote:
> 
> On 25/01/2019 03:23, Joseph Lo wrote:
>> Hi Jon,
>>
>> Thanks for reviewing.
>>
>> On 1/24/19 6:30 PM, Jon Hunter wrote:
>>>
>>> On 07/01/2019 03:28, Joseph Lo wrote:
>>>> The Tegra210 timer provides fourteen 29-bit timer counters and one
>>>> 32-bit
>>>> timestamp counter. The TMRs run at either a fixed 1 MHz clock rate
>>>> derived
>>>> from the oscillator clock (TMR0-TMR9) or directly at the oscillator
>>>> clock
>>>> (TMR10-TMR13). Each TMR can be programmed to generate one-shot periodic,
>>>> or watchdog interrupts.
>>>>
>>>> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
>>>> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
>>>> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
>>>> Cc: devicetree@...r.kernel.org
>>>> Signed-off-by: Joseph Lo <josephl@...dia.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>    .../bindings/timer/nvidia,tegra210-timer.txt  | 25 +++++++++++++++++++
>>>>    1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)
>>>>    create mode 100644
>>>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/nvidia,tegra210-timer.txt
>>>>
>>>> diff --git
>>>> a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/nvidia,tegra210-timer.txt
>>>> b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/nvidia,tegra210-timer.txt
>>>> new file mode 100644
>>>> index 000000000000..ba511220a669
>>>> --- /dev/null
>>>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/nvidia,tegra210-timer.txt
>>>> @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
>>>> +NVIDIA Tegra210 timer
>>>> +
>>>> +The Tegra210 timer provides fourteen 29-bit timer counters and one
>>>> 32-bit
>>>> +timestamp counter. The TMRs run at either a fixed 1 MHz clock rate
>>>> derived
>>>> +from the oscillator clock (TMR0-TMR9) or directly at the oscillator
>>>> clock
>>>> +(TMR10-TMR13). Each TMR can be programmed to generate one-shot,
>>>> periodic,
>>>> +or watchdog interrupts.
>>>> +
>>>> +Required properties:
>>>> +- compatible : "nvidia,tegra210-timer".
>>>> +- reg : Specifies base physical address and size of the registers.
>>>> +- interrupts : A list of 4 interrupts; one per each of TMR10 through
>>>> TMR13.
>>>
[snip]
>> And notice that only TMR10-TMR13 are running at the oscillator clock
>> (clk_m). With the Tegra210 timer driver, we introduce in this series,
>> which only replace the clock event device function that was originally
>> owned by the arch timer (armv8 timer) and it also running at the
>> oscillator clock. The sched_timer still owns by the arch timer. So the
>> timer resolution will be the same. That's why we choose TMR10-TMR13 as
>> the timer for Tegra210.
> 
> That maybe fine, but DT should describe the hardware and so I don't see
> why we would not list all the interrupts. We can still only use TMR10-13
> in the driver.
> 

Okay, will list all the interrupts for each timer channel.

Thanks,
Joseph