implementation in arm/machdep.c. Most arm platforms either don't need to
do anything, or just need to call the standard eventtimer init routines.
A generic implementation that does that is now provided via weak linkage.
Any platform that needs to do something different can provide a its own
implementation to override the generic one.
to check the status property in their probe routines.
Simplebus used to only instantiate its children whose status="okay"
but that was improper behavior, fixed in r261352. Now that it doesn't
check anymore and probes all its children; the children all have to
do the check because really only the children know how to properly
interpret their status property strings.
Right now all existing drivers only understand "okay" versus something-
that's-not-okay, so they all use the new ofw_bus_status_okay() helper.
really need it. That would be almost everywhere it was included. Add
it in a couple files that really do need it and were previously getting
it by accident via another header.
original 2us are indeed not enough, 3us are working quite well on my tests.
To be more safe set minimal period to 5us and to be even more safe replicate
here from HPET mechanism of rereading counter after programming comparator.
This change allows to handle 30K of short nanosleep() calls per second on
Raspberry Pi instead of just 8K before.
Discussed with: gonzo
Switch eventtimers(9) from using struct bintime to sbintime_t.
Even before this not a single driver really supported full dynamic range of
struct bintime even in theory, not speaking about practical inexpediency.
This change legitimates the status quo and cleans up the code.
- Disable interrupt when updating compare value in order to
make this operation atomical
- Increase minimum period for event timer. Systimer on BCM2835
is compare timer, so if minimum period is too small it might
be less then fraction of time between "read current value" and
"set compare timer" operations. It means that when timer is armed
actual counter value is more then compare value and it will take
whole cycle (~32sec for 1MHz timer) to fire interrupt.
Submitted by: Daisuke Aoyama <aoyama at peach.ne.jp>
