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From: a0131933@ti•com (Lokesh Vutla)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v4 1/3] ARM: hwmod: RTC: Add lock and unlock functions
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 14:49:20 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56C58C98.2040006@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1602180626420.4792@utopia.booyaka.com>

Hi Paul,


On 2/18/2016 11:57 AM, Paul Walmsley wrote:
> Hi Lokesh
>
> On Sun, 7 Feb 2016, Paul Walmsley wrote:
>
>> A few comments:
>>
>> On Fri, 5 Feb 2016, Lokesh Vutla wrote:
>>
>>> RTC IP have kicker feature which prevents spurious writes to its registers.
>>> In order to write into any of the RTC registers, KICK values has to be
>>> written to KICK registers.
>>> Introduce omap_hwmod_rtc_unlock/lock functions, which  writes into these
>>> KICK registers inorder to lock and unlock RTC registers.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Lokesh Vutla <lokeshvutla@ti•com>
>>> ---
>>
>> ...
>>
>>> +/**
>>> + * omap_rtc_wait_not_busy - Wait for the RTC BUSY flag
>>> + * @oh: struct omap_hwmod *
>>> + *
>>> + * For updating certain RTC registers, the MPU must wait
>>> + * for the BUSY status in OMAP_RTC_STATUS_REG to become zero.
>>> + * Once the BUSY status is zero, there is a 15-?s access
>>
>> Probably best just to write out "microseconds" or "us" here to avoid the
>> high-bit character problem.
>>
>>> + * period in which the MPU can program.
>>> + */
>>> +static void omap_rtc_wait_not_busy(struct omap_hwmod *oh)
>>> +{
>>> +	int i;
>>> +
>>> +	/* BUSY may stay active for 1/32768 second (~30 usec) */
>>> +	omap_test_timeout(omap_hwmod_read(oh, OMAP_RTC_STATUS_REG)
>>> +			  & OMAP_RTC_STATUS_REG, OMAP_RTC_MAX_READY_TIME, i);
>>
>> This test looks bogus.  Shouldn't it AND the register value with
>> OMAP_RTC_STATUS_BUSY?  Right now the code is AND-ing with 0x44, which
>> doesn't include the BUSY bit.  So I guess the tests that you mentioned in
>> the first message of the series don't cover the BUSY case?
>>
>>> +	/* now we have ~15 usec to read/write various registers */
>>> +}
>>> +
>>> +/**
>>> + * omap_hwmod_rtc_unlock - Unlock the Kicker mechanism.
>>> + * @oh: struct omap_hwmod *
>>> + *
>>> + * RTC IP have kicker feature. This prevents spurious writes to its registers.
>>> + * In order to write into any of the RTC registers, KICK values has te be
>>> + * written in respective KICK registers. This is needed for hwmod to write into
>>> + * sysconfig register.
>>> + */
>>> +void omap_hwmod_rtc_unlock(struct omap_hwmod *oh)
>>> +{
>>> +	local_irq_disable();
>>> +	omap_rtc_wait_not_busy(oh);
>>> +	omap_hwmod_write(OMAP_RTC_KICK0_VALUE, oh, OMAP_RTC_KICK0_REG);
>>> +	omap_hwmod_write(OMAP_RTC_KICK1_VALUE, oh, OMAP_RTC_KICK1_REG);
>>> +	local_irq_enable();
>>
>> Finally, could you ask the IP block maintainer to confirm the
>> interpretation that, for any STATUS_REG read where the BUSY bit is 0, that
>> we are guaranteed to have at least 15 microseconds from that point in time
>> to access the IP block?  It appears to be this way from my reading of the
>> TRM; but to me, the phrasing is not explicit.  Another interpretation
>> could be that the BUSY bit reflects the IP block's current status.  If
>> this latter case is true, then to ensure that the IP block accesses
>> complete inside the access window, we'll either need to test the BUSY bit
>> after the writes to ensure that it is still 0, and otherwise repeat the
>> busy test and writes; or we'll need to wait for a 0->1 BUSY transition
>> before we wait for a 1->0 BUSY transition.
>>
>>> +}
>>> +
>>> +/**
>>> + * omap_hwmod_rtc_lock - Lock the Kicker mechanism.
>>> + * @oh: struct omap_hwmod *
>>> + *
>>> + * RTC IP have kicker feature. This prevents spurious writes to its registers.
>>> + * Once the RTC registers are written, KICK mechanism needs to be locked,
>>> + * in order to prevent any spurious writes. This function locks back the RTC
>>> + * registers once hwmod completes its write into sysconfig register.
>>> + */
>>> +void omap_hwmod_rtc_lock(struct omap_hwmod *oh)
>>> +{
>>> +	local_irq_disable();
>>> +	omap_rtc_wait_not_busy(oh);
>>> +	omap_hwmod_write(0x0, oh, OMAP_RTC_KICK0_REG);
>>> +	omap_hwmod_write(0x0, oh, OMAP_RTC_KICK1_REG);
>>> +	local_irq_enable();
>>> +}
>
> Any update?


Sorry for the delay, I am on a vacation right now. I have already sent
a mail to the HW guys. Will update you as soon as I receive a reply
from them.

Thanks and regards,
Lokesh

>
>
> - Paul
>

  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-18  9:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-05  5:42 [PATCH v4 0/3] ARM: OMAP2+: hwmod: RTC: Add lock and unlock hooks Lokesh Vutla
2016-02-05  5:42 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] ARM: hwmod: RTC: Add lock and unlock functions Lokesh Vutla
2016-02-07 22:24   ` Paul Walmsley
2016-02-18  6:27     ` Paul Walmsley
2016-02-18  9:19       ` Lokesh Vutla [this message]
2016-02-18 17:17         ` Paul Walmsley
2016-02-24  9:29     ` Lokesh Vutla
2016-02-24 18:07       ` Paul Walmsley
2016-02-05  5:42 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] ARM: DRA7: " Lokesh Vutla
2016-02-05  5:42 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] ARM: AMx3xx: " Lokesh Vutla

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