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Commit a51f8863 authored by Simon Desfarges's avatar Simon Desfarges Committed by Gerrit Code Review
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arc_timer: fix tickless idle



When exiting from tickless idle uppon an external IRQ, the TICK timer
is set to fire at next TICK boundary. The current algorithm can lead
to a point that timer0_count register is higher than the timer0_limit
register.

In this situation the next TICK will fire after the counter has
wrapped and performed another cycle (~133 seconds).

This condition appears when the counter reaches the limit after the
Interrupt Pending flag is checked. At this point the counter is
automatically wrapped to 0, but is set just next to the limit to fire
at next TICK boundary by SW. At exit of the _timer_idle_exit function,
the timer handler is called, and sets the limit to 1 TICK. At this
point the situation is:
- limit register == 1 TICK
- count register is just below the old limit register and higher than
  1 TICK

To fix this issue, at _timer_idle_exit, the limit register is always
set to 1 TICK and the count register set such as the next TICK fires
on time.

Change-Id: Ifa002809d426aa04109592e53d2b02a224f51101
Signed-off-by: default avatarSimon Desfarges <simon.desfarges@intel.com>
parent e6ded3f5
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