Re: [PATCH v2 18/20] mips: csrc-r4k: Decrease r4k-clocksource rating if CPU_FREQ enabled

[Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>]

On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 11:57:52PM +0300, Serge Semin wrote:
> On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 06:32:06PM +0200, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
> > On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 04:48:20PM +0300, Serge Semin wrote:
> > > On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 11:06:47PM +0200, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
> > > > On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 10:48:27AM +0300, Serge Semin wrote:
> > > > > Thomas,
> > > > > Could you take a look at my comment below so I could proceed with the
> > > > > patchset v3 development?
> > > > 
> > > > I can't help, but using r4k clocksource with changing frequency is
> > > > probaly only usefull as a random generator. So IMHO the only two
> > > > options are disabling it or implement what arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c does.
> > > > 
> > > > Thomas.
> > > 
> > > Thomas, could you proceed with the rest of the patches review?
> > > ├─>[PATCH v2 16/20] bus: cdmm: Add MIPS R5 arch support
> > > ├─>[PATCH v2 15/20] mips: cdmm: Add mti,mips-cdmm dtb node support
> > 
> > both are not my call, but look ok to me.
> 
> Can I add your Reviewed-by tag there then?

only for 16/20. 15/20 looks ok to me, but I have not enough insides
on the hardware to say this is good.

> > > ├─>[PATCH v2 13/20] mips: early_printk_8250: Use offset-sized IO-mem accessors
> > 
> > that's broken. A reg shift of 2 doesn't mean we could use 32bit access
> > to the registers on other platforms. As I don't think adding some ifdefery
> > makes things nicer, just implement the your prom_putchar in board code.
> 
> I thought about that initially, but then I decided to alter the generic
> early_printk_8250 code instead. My version of prom_putchar() would be almost
> the same as one implemented in the early_printk_8250 module except minor
> modification of replacing readb/writeb methods with readl/writel. So I didn't
> want to duplicate the code, but wanted to provide a general way to fix the
> problem potentially also for another platforms.
> 
> Since you don't like this fix alternatively I'd suggest to add the reg_width
> parameter passed to the setup_8250_early_printk_port() method like this:
> -setup_8250_early_printk_port(unsigned long base, unsigned int reg_shift,
> -                             unsigned int timeout)
> +setup_8250_early_printk_port(unsigned long base, unsigned int reg_shift,
> +                             unsigned int reg_width, unsigned int timeout)
> 
> By reg_width parameter we could determine the actual width of the register:
>  static inline u8 serial_in(int offset)
>  {
> -       return readb(serial8250_base + (offset << serial8250_reg_shift));
> +       u8 ret = 0xFF;
> +
> +       offset <<= serial8250_reg_shift;
> +       switch (serial8250_reg_width) {
> +       case 1:
> +               ret = readb(serial8250_base + offset);
> +               break;
> +       case 2:
> +               ret = readw(serial8250_base + offset);
> +               break;
> +       case 4:
> +               ret = readl(serial8250_base + offset);
> +               break;
> +       default:
> +               break;
> +       }
> +
> +       return ret;
>  }
> 
> The similar modification will be implemented for serial_out(). I'll also modify

look at the lines of code you are adding. Doing your own prom_putchar will
probably have less lines.

> What do you think about this?

please do your own prom_putchar.


> > 
> > > ├─>[PATCH v2 12/20] mips: MAAR: Add XPA mode support
> > 
> > looks ok so far.
> 
> Can I add your Reviewed-by tag there then?

As I'm the maintainer of the part, I've simply applied it.

> > 
> > > ├─>[PATCH v2 10/20] mips: Add CONFIG/CONFIG6/Cause reg fields macro
> > 
> > that is fine
> 
> Can I add your Reviewed-by tag there then?

As this didn't apply cleanly, I'll apply it after you've resent it.
IMHO no need for a Reviewed-by.

> > > └─>[PATCH v2 09/20] mips: Add CP0 Write Merge config support
> > 
> > this is IMHO a dangerous change. Enabling write merging for any
> > CPU supporting it might triggers bugs. Do it in your board bringup
> > code and at the moment I don't see a reason for the rest of that
> > patch.
> 
> Let's at least leave the mm_config() implementation but without the write-merge
> enabling by default. Providing features availability macro
> cpu_has_mm_sysad/cpu_has_mm_full and c0 config fields

do you have a user of that ? I'm not introducing code nobody uses.

> I could use them to implement a code pattern like:
> 
> +	if (cpu_has_mm_full) {
> +		unsigned int config0 = read_c0_config();
> +               config0 = (config0 & ~MIPS_CONF_MM) | MIPS_CONF_MM_FULL;
> +               write_c0_config(config0);
> +	}

you know you are running on a R5 core, so you know you have MM_FULL.
No need to check this.

> By doing so I can manually enable/disable the MM feature in the
> cpu-feature-overrides.h. Without that I'd have to locally define these macro,
> which isn't good seeing they are in fact generic and can be useful for other
> platforms with SYSAD and FULL MM feature available. What do you think?

To me this is a hardware feature I expect to be done by firmware and
Linux shouldn't care about it, if it doesn't have any software
implications.

Thomas.

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