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Date:      Mon, 05 May 2014 09:35:57 -0600
From:      Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: USB isochronous traffic with Rasberry Pi [WAS: Re: USB audio device on Raspberry Pi]
Message-ID:  <1399304157.22079.243.camel@revolution.hippie.lan>
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On Mon, 2014-05-05 at 09:28 -0600, Ian Lepore wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-05-05 at 08:18 -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> > evil idea:
> > 
> > #define DELAY(ms) _DELAY(ms, __FILE__, __LINE__)
> > 
> > .. then modify the relevant arm delay function to take FILE/LINE and
> > KTR log it. :-)
> > 
> > 
> > -a
> 
> Except some uart console output routines are structured like
> 
>     while (!readreg(STATUS) & TXRDY)
>         DELAY(n);
> 
> I don't know why people think that calling delay in busy loops like that
> has any value, considering that DELAY is almost always implemented as
> some form of
> 
>     while (readreg(COUNTER) < target_count)
>         ;
> 
> I guess maybe it has value only in that it helps you find busy-loops.
> I'd rather that we had a function just for that purpose, like
> 
>     while (readreg(COUNTER) < target_count)
>         cpu_busy_loop();
> 
> (We have something like that that's x86-specific, iirc).
> 
> -- Ian

Oh never mind, I just noticed you said KTR, not printf.

-- Ian





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