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From: Marc Pignat <marc.pignat@hevs.ch>
To: tglx@linutronix.de
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Remy Bohmer" <l.pinguin@gmail.com>,
	"David Brownell" <david-b@pacbell.net>
Subject: [BUG] clockevents : clockevent_delta2ns usage
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 10:43:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200707021043.39617.marc.pignat@hevs.ch> (raw)

Hello all!

We're currently working with David Brownell and Remy Bohmer on implementation
of clocksource/events on the at91rm9200 processor (arm arch).

While debugging our implementation, we came about a rounding problem, in the
setting of min_delta_ns field, and I think it can be in almost all clock_event_device.

Almost all clock_event_device initialize the field min_delta_ns this way:
	clkevt32k.mult = div_sc(CLOCK_TICK_RATE, NSEC_PER_SEC, clkevt32k.shift);
	clkevt32k.max_delta_ns = clockevent_delta2ns(0x000fffff, &clkevt32k);
	clkevt32k.min_delta_ns = clockevent_delta2ns(1, &clkevt32k);

The clockevent_delta2ns function rounds the result down, so the rounded min_delta_ns
can be smaller than the real min_delta_ns.

When clockevents_program_event is called, this rounding problem shows up:
...
	if (delta < dev->min_delta_ns)
		delta = dev->min_delta_ns;

	clc = delta * dev->mult;
	clc >>= dev->shift;

	return dev->set_next_event((unsigned long) clc, dev)

When delta is to small, min_delta_ns will be used, and with a wrong rounding,
will call set_next_event with a value smaller than the expected, and 
set_next_event will fail.

This will result in an infinite loop when clockevents_program_event is called
from tick_program_event with a too short delay.

In our driver, we fixed this problem using that:
-	clkevt32k.min_delta_ns = clockevent_delta2ns(1, &clkevt32k);
+	clkevt32k.min_delta_ns = clockevent_delta2ns(1, &clkevt32k)+1;

I think other clock_event_device can have the same problem.

Regards

Marc

             reply	other threads:[~2007-07-02  8:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-02  8:43 Marc Pignat [this message]
2007-07-02 16:42 ` David Brownell

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