On newer boards the TC can be read as single 32 bit value without locking. Thus the clock can be used as reference for sched_clock which is much more accurate than the jiffies implementation.
Tested on a Atmel SAMA5D2 board. Signed-off-by: David Engraf <david.eng...@sysgo.com> --- drivers/clocksource/tcb_clksrc.c | 16 +++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/tcb_clksrc.c b/drivers/clocksource/tcb_clksrc.c index d4ca996..745844e 100644 --- a/drivers/clocksource/tcb_clksrc.c +++ b/drivers/clocksource/tcb_clksrc.c @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ #include <linux/io.h> #include <linux/platform_device.h> #include <linux/atmel_tc.h> +#include <linux/sched_clock.h> /* @@ -56,11 +57,16 @@ static u64 tc_get_cycles(struct clocksource *cs) return (upper << 16) | lower; } -static u64 tc_get_cycles32(struct clocksource *cs) +static u32 tc_get_cv32(void) { return __raw_readl(tcaddr + ATMEL_TC_REG(0, CV)); } +static u64 tc_get_cycles32(struct clocksource *cs) +{ + return tc_get_cv32(); +} + static struct clocksource clksrc = { .name = "tcb_clksrc", .rating = 200, @@ -69,6 +75,11 @@ static struct clocksource clksrc = { .flags = CLOCK_SOURCE_IS_CONTINUOUS, }; +static u64 notrace tc_read_sched_clock(void) +{ + return tc_get_cv32(); +} + #ifdef CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS struct tc_clkevt_device { @@ -339,6 +350,9 @@ static int __init tcb_clksrc_init(void) clksrc.read = tc_get_cycles32; /* setup ony channel 0 */ tcb_setup_single_chan(tc, best_divisor_idx); + + /* register sched_clock on chips with single 32 bit counter */ + sched_clock_register(tc_read_sched_clock, 32, divided_rate); } else { /* tclib will give us three clocks no matter what the * underlying platform supports. -- 2.9.3