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authorVineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>2014-06-25 13:44:03 +0200
committerVineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>2014-07-23 07:47:12 +0200
commitc9a98e1849a201ce88b42fc177b449df576a92b4 (patch)
treedb1ca32678f84b0aa586f615aa43daf6dd56c906 /arch/arc/kernel
parentARC: [SMP] unify cpu private IRQ requests (TIMER/IPI) (diff)
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ARC: update some comments
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arc/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/arc/kernel/time.c10
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arc/kernel/time.c b/arch/arc/kernel/time.c
index f92cfb14ecd3..dbe74f418019 100644
--- a/arch/arc/kernel/time.c
+++ b/arch/arc/kernel/time.c
@@ -144,12 +144,12 @@ static struct clocksource arc_counter = {
/********** Clock Event Device *********/
/*
- * Arm the timer to interrupt after @limit cycles
+ * Arm the timer to interrupt after @cycles
* The distinction for oneshot/periodic is done in arc_event_timer_ack() below
*/
-static void arc_timer_event_setup(unsigned int limit)
+static void arc_timer_event_setup(unsigned int cycles)
{
- write_aux_reg(ARC_REG_TIMER0_LIMIT, limit);
+ write_aux_reg(ARC_REG_TIMER0_LIMIT, cycles);
write_aux_reg(ARC_REG_TIMER0_CNT, 0); /* start from 0 */
write_aux_reg(ARC_REG_TIMER0_CTRL, TIMER_CTRL_IE | TIMER_CTRL_NH);
@@ -168,6 +168,10 @@ static void arc_clkevent_set_mode(enum clock_event_mode mode,
{
switch (mode) {
case CLOCK_EVT_MODE_PERIODIC:
+ /*
+ * At X Hz, 1 sec = 1000ms -> X cycles;
+ * 10ms -> X / 100 cycles
+ */
arc_timer_event_setup(arc_get_core_freq() / HZ);
break;
case CLOCK_EVT_MODE_ONESHOT: