Timer Interrupt Handler

[Xavier LEBARS]

Hi,

Thanks for your answer,

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : l4-hackers [mailto:l4-hackers-bounces at os.inf.tu-dresden.de] De la part
> de Adam Lackorzynski
> Envoyé : jeudi 17 juillet 2014 23:21
> À : l4-hackers at os.inf.tu-dresden.de
> Objet : Re: Timer Interrupt Handler
> Importance : Haute
> 
> On Wed Jul 16, 2014 at 15:10:29 +0200, Xavier LEBARS wrote:
> > I'm always trying to configure the timer for my Zedboard and the
> > system clock doesn't advance. I checked this in the
> > Timer::system_clock() function
> >
> >
> >
> > In order to construct my timer driver, I use mptimer option, so I
> > configured the private timer of my board in the file
> > timer-arm-mptimer.cpp. Private Timers call the function interval()
> > which use the global timer of the board  (bsp/zynq/
> > timer-arm-mptimer-zynq.cpp
> > file) Here is a part of the implementation of my global timer (I just
> > launch counter) :
> >   Mmio_register_block
> t(Kmem::mmio_remap(Mem_layout::Gpt_phys_base));
> >   t.write<Mword>(0, GPT_CR);
> >
> >   t.write<Mword>(0, GPT_CNT0);
> >
> >   t.write<Mword>(0, GPT_CNT1);
> >   t.modify<Mword>(GPT_CR_EN, 0, GPT_CR);
> >   Mword vc = start_as_counter();
> >
> >   while (t.read<Mword>(GPT_CNT0) < Gpt_ticks)
> >     ;
> >   Mword interval = (vc - stop_counter()) / Ticks;
> >
> >   t.write<Mword>(0, GPT_CR);
> >
> >   return interval;
> 
> Is this calculating a proper interval value? For a start you can also just return a
> fixed value.

With  this configuration :   
 Timer_freq = 32768,
 Ticks = 50,

I obtain the following interval value : 85899345

When I try to use a fixed value like in Tegra configuration (249 999 or 499 999), I see no effects.

> > The private timers are bind to the GIC with the IRQ 27, so I mentioned
> > this value in the static unsigned irq() function.
> 
> Why 27 and not 29?

A mistake between  Global Timer Interrupts ID 27 and private timer interrupts ID 29

> > GIC is initialized in the bsp/zynq/pic-arm-zynq.cpp file (similar to
> > the
> > iMX6 architecture)
> >
> > Pic::init()
> > {
> >   typedef Irq_mgr_multi_chip<Gic_sz> M;
> >   M *m = new Boot_object<M>(1);
> >   gic.construct(Kmem::mmio_remap(Mem_layout::Gic_cpu_phys_base),
> >                 Kmem::mmio_remap(Mem_layout::Gic_dist_phys_base));
> >   m->add_chip(0, gic, gic->nr_irqs());
> >   Irq_mgr::mgr = m;
> > }
> 
> This looks fine.
> 
> > To finish I saw timer_tick class. It seems to be a good way to update
> > system clock because there are interrupts handler which call the
> > update_system_clock function. So I added a call to  the
> > Timer_tick::setup() function in my startup-arm.cpp file after timer
> > initialization. But when I boot the sytem I obtain the following
> > message
> 
> I do not think you need to add anything there.

Ok

> > Panic - Could not allocate scheduling IRQ 27
> >
> > The origin of this problem is the allocate_irq() function
> >
> > So do I have to modify something in my IRQ manager or did I forget one
> > step during the construction of my timer driver ? Thanks in advance
> 
> For the mptimer it should just work given a proper interval() value.
> So does the mptimer tick, i.e. reading the counter register multiple times
> gives a changing value everytime? Regarding the interrupt number, timer-
> arm-mptimer.cpp already has it defined.


The counter register value change correctly

Xavier Le Bars