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Date:      Sun, 19 Mar 2017 21:53:12 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r315591 - head/sys/arm/freescale/imx
Message-ID:  <201703192153.v2JLrCPr050451@repo.freebsd.org>

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Author: ian
Date: Sun Mar 19 21:53:12 2017
New Revision: 315591
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/315591

Log:
  Replace the hard-coded way-too-small minimum event timer period with a value
  calculated at runtime based on how long it takes to set up an event in
  hardware.  This fixes the intermittant 1-minute hang at boot on imx5
  systems, and also the occasional oversleeping while running.  It doesn't
  affect imx6 systems, which use different hardware for eventtimers.
  
  It turns out that it usually takes about 30 timer ticks to set up the timer
  compare register, and the old hard-coded minimum period was 10 ticks.  On
  the rare occasions when a timeout event that short was set up, we'd miss
  the event and have to wait about 64 seconds for counter rollover before
  the compare interrupt would fire.
  
  Instead of just hardcoding a new bigger value, the code now measures the
  time it takes to do the register read/write sequence to set up the compare
  register, scales it up by 1.5x to be safe, and calculates the minimum event
  period from the result.  In the real world, the minimum period works out to
  about 750 nanoseconds on imx5 hardware.

Modified:
  head/sys/arm/freescale/imx/imx_gpt.c

Modified: head/sys/arm/freescale/imx/imx_gpt.c
==============================================================================
--- head/sys/arm/freescale/imx/imx_gpt.c	Sun Mar 19 21:49:15 2017	(r315590)
+++ head/sys/arm/freescale/imx/imx_gpt.c	Sun Mar 19 21:53:12 2017	(r315591)
@@ -102,10 +102,6 @@ static const int imx_gpt_delay_count = 7
 /* Try to divide down an available fast clock to this frequency. */
 #define	TARGET_FREQUENCY	1000000000
 
-/* Don't try to set an event timer period smaller than this. */
-#define	MIN_ET_PERIOD		10LLU
-
-
 static struct resource_spec imx_gpt_spec[] = {
 	{ SYS_RES_MEMORY,	0,	RF_ACTIVE },
 	{ SYS_RES_IRQ,		0,	RF_ACTIVE },
@@ -143,7 +139,7 @@ imx_gpt_attach(device_t dev)
 {
 	struct imx_gpt_softc *sc;
 	int ctlreg, err;
-	uint32_t basefreq, prescale;
+	uint32_t basefreq, prescale, setup_ticks, t1, t2;
 
 	sc = device_get_softc(dev);
 
@@ -249,13 +245,25 @@ imx_gpt_attach(device_t dev)
 		return (ENXIO);
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * Measure how many clock ticks it takes to setup a one-shot event (it's
+	 * longer than you might think, due to wait states in accessing gpt
+	 * registers).  Scale up the result by a factor of 1.5 to be safe,
+	 * and use that to set the minimum eventtimer period we can schedule. In
+	 * the real world, the value works out to about 750ns on imx5 hardware.
+	 */
+	t1 = READ4(sc, IMX_GPT_CNT);
+	WRITE4(sc, IMX_GPT_OCR3, 0);
+	t2 = READ4(sc, IMX_GPT_CNT);
+	setup_ticks = ((t2 - t1 + 1) * 3) / 2;
+
 	/* Register as an eventtimer. */
 	sc->et.et_name = "iMXGPT";
 	sc->et.et_flags = ET_FLAGS_ONESHOT | ET_FLAGS_PERIODIC;
 	sc->et.et_quality = 800;
 	sc->et.et_frequency = sc->clkfreq;
-	sc->et.et_min_period = (MIN_ET_PERIOD << 32) / sc->et.et_frequency;
-	sc->et.et_max_period = (0xfffffffeLLU << 32) / sc->et.et_frequency;
+	sc->et.et_min_period = ((uint64_t)setup_ticks << 32) / sc->clkfreq;
+	sc->et.et_max_period = ((uint64_t)0xfffffffe  << 32) / sc->clkfreq;
 	sc->et.et_start = imx_gpt_timer_start;
 	sc->et.et_stop = imx_gpt_timer_stop;
 	sc->et.et_priv = sc;



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