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Re: [PATCH] clocksource/drivers/pistachio: Fix wrong calculated clocksource read value

From Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@marvell.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] clocksource/drivers/pistachio: Fix wrong calculated clocksource read value
Date 2015-12-16 08:40 +0100
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On Wed, 16 Dec 2015 15:11:25 +0800
Jisheng Zhang  wrote:

> Dear Daniel,
> 
> On Tue, 15 Dec 2015 21:59:30 +0100 Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> 
> > On 11/25/2015 04:42 PM, Jisheng Zhang wrote:  
> > > Let's assume the counter value is 0xf000000, the pistachio clocksource

oops, sorry, should be 0xf0000000. Do I need to send a v2 patch?

> > > read cycles function would return 0xffffffff0fffffff, but it should
> > > return 0xfffffff.
> > >
> > > We fix this issue by calculating bitwise-not counter, then cast to
> > > cycle_t.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@marvell.com>    
> > 
> > Hi Jisheng,
> > 
> > I tried to reproduce this behavior on x86_64 but without success.
> > 
> > On which architecture did you produce this result ? Do you have a simple 
> > test program to check with ?  
> 
> I have no HW platforms with pistachio, just read the code and run the
> following test code in x86_64 and x86_32:
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
> unsigned long long pistachio_clocksource_read_cycles()
> {
> 	unsigned int counter = 0xf000000;

should be unsigned int counter = 0xf0000000;

> 	return ~(unsigned long long)counter;
> }
> int main()
> {
> 	printf("%llx\n", pistachio_clocksource_read_cycles());
> 	return 0;
> }
> 
> Thanks,
> Jisheng
> 
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Re: [PATCH] clocksource/drivers/pistachio: Fix wrong calculated  clocksource read value Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> - 2015-12-15 22:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] clocksource/drivers/pistachio: Fix wrong calculated  clocksource read value Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@marvell.com> - 2015-12-16 08:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] clocksource/drivers/pistachio: Fix wrong calculated  clocksource read value Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@marvell.com> - 2015-12-16 08:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] clocksource/drivers/pistachio: Fix wrong calculated  clocksource read value Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@marvell.com> - 2015-12-16 08:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCH] clocksource/drivers/pistachio: Fix wrong calculated  clocksource read value Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@marvell.com> - 2015-12-16 09:00 +0100
        Re: [PATCH] clocksource/drivers/pistachio: Fix wrong calculated  clocksource read value Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> - 2015-12-16 10:30 +0100
          Re: [PATCH] clocksource/drivers/pistachio: Fix wrong calculated  clocksource read value Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> - 2015-12-16 10:40 +0100
            Re: [PATCH] clocksource/drivers/pistachio: Fix wrong calculated  clocksource read value Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> - 2015-12-16 11:40 +0100
              Re: [PATCH] clocksource/drivers/pistachio: Fix wrong calculated  clocksource read value Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> - 2015-12-16 17:30 +0100
              Re: [PATCH] clocksource/drivers/pistachio: Fix wrong calculated  clocksource read value Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@marvell.com> - 2015-12-17 10:20 +0100
            Re: [PATCH] clocksource/drivers/pistachio: Fix wrong calculated  clocksource read value Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> - 2015-12-16 11:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] clocksource/drivers/pistachio: Fix wrong calculated  clocksource read value Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> - 2015-12-16 10:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] clocksource/drivers/pistachio: Fix wrong calculated  clocksource read value Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> - 2015-12-16 10:10 +0100

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