Re: [PATCH v3 09/10] counter: stm32-timer-cnt: add support for overflow events

From: William Breathitt Gray
Date: Mon Jan 08 2024 - 16:00:49 EST


On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 03:57:25PM +0100, Fabrice Gasnier wrote:
> Add support overflow events. Also add the related validation and
> configuration routine. Register and enable interrupts to push events.
> STM32 Timers can have either 1 global interrupt, or 4 dedicated interrupt
> lines. Request only the necessary interrupt, e.g. either global interrupt
> that can report all event types, or update interrupt only for overflow
> event.
>
> Acked-by: Lee Jones <lee@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Fabrice Gasnier <fabrice.gasnier@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Fabrice,

I've CC'd Will and Peter in case they can provide some suggestions
regarding my atomic_t comment inline below.

> @@ -44,6 +45,9 @@ struct stm32_timer_cnt {
> bool has_encoder;
> u32 idx;
> unsigned int nchannels;
> + unsigned int nr_irqs;
> + u32 *irq;

Looks like we only need this 'irq' array for registering the ISR in
stm32_timer_cnt_probe(). Since we won't need it anymore after that,
let's use ddata->irq directly instead of defining priv->irq.

> + atomic_t nb_ovf;
> };
>
> static const enum counter_function stm32_count_functions[] = {
> @@ -259,6 +263,29 @@ static int stm32_count_prescaler_write(struct counter_device *counter,
> return regmap_write(priv->regmap, TIM_PSC, psc);
> }
>
> +static int stm32_count_nb_ovf_read(struct counter_device *counter,
> + struct counter_count *count, u64 *val)
> +{
> + struct stm32_timer_cnt *const priv = counter_priv(counter);
> +
> + *val = atomic_read(&priv->nb_ovf);
> +
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> +static int stm32_count_nb_ovf_write(struct counter_device *counter,
> + struct counter_count *count, u64 val)
> +{
> + struct stm32_timer_cnt *const priv = counter_priv(counter);
> +
> + if (val != (typeof(priv->nb_ovf.counter))val)
> + return -ERANGE;
> +
> + atomic_set(&priv->nb_ovf, val);

So you want to check that the atomic_t 'nb_ovf' is able hold the value
provided by the u64 'val'. My understanding is that atomic_t should be
treated as an opaque type, so I don't think we should be accessing the
'counter' member directly for this test (interrupt-cnt does this but I
believe it's wrong to do so).

I don't know if we have any existing way to check for the value range of
an atomic_t (I don't see anything under include/linux/limits.h
specifically for it). However, you do use atomic_set() which takes an
int parameter, so perhaps we should compare against INT_MAX instead.

> +static int stm32_count_events_configure(struct counter_device *counter)
> +{
> + struct stm32_timer_cnt *const priv = counter_priv(counter);
> + struct counter_event_node *event_node;
> + u32 val, dier = 0;
> +
> + list_for_each_entry(event_node, &counter->events_list, l) {
> + switch (event_node->event) {
> + case COUNTER_EVENT_OVERFLOW_UNDERFLOW:
> + /* first clear possibly latched UIF before enabling */
> + regmap_read(priv->regmap, TIM_DIER, &val);
> + if (!(val & TIM_DIER_UIE))

You can eliminate 'val' and the regmap_read() line like this:

if (!regmap_test_bits(priv->regmap, TIM_DIER, TIM_DIER_UIE))

> + regmap_write(priv->regmap, TIM_SR, (u32)~TIM_SR_UIF);
> + dier |= TIM_DIER_UIE;
> + break;
> + default:
> + /* should never reach this path */
> + return -EINVAL;
> + }
> + }
> +
> + regmap_write(priv->regmap, TIM_DIER, dier);

Do you want to overwrite TIM_DIER completely, or did you mean to set
only TIM_DIER_UIE and preserve the rest of the register? If the latter,
you could redefine 'dier' as a bool and do:

regmap_update_bits(priv->regmap, TIM_DIER, TIM_DIER_UIE, dier);

There is also a regmap_update_bits_check() available if you want to
combine the UIF latch check with the update; but I don't know if that
will work in this case because it looks like you want to clear the UIF
latch before enabling.

> static int stm32_count_clk_get_freq(struct counter_device *counter,
> @@ -418,6 +491,35 @@ static struct counter_count stm32_counts = {
> .num_ext = ARRAY_SIZE(stm32_count_ext)
> };
>
> +static irqreturn_t stm32_timer_cnt_isr(int irq, void *ptr)
> +{
> + struct counter_device *counter = ptr;
> + struct stm32_timer_cnt *const priv = counter_priv(counter);
> + u32 clr = GENMASK(31, 0); /* SR flags can be cleared by writing 0 (wr 1 has no effect) */
> + u32 sr, dier;
> +
> + regmap_read(priv->regmap, TIM_SR, &sr);
> + regmap_read(priv->regmap, TIM_DIER, &dier);
> + /*
> + * Some status bits in SR don't match with the enable bits in DIER. Only take care of
> + * the possibly enabled bits in DIER (that matches in between SR and DIER).
> + */
> + dier &= TIM_DIER_UIE;
> + sr &= dier;
> +
> + if (sr & TIM_SR_UIF) {

Am I understanding this logic correctly? ANDing TIM_DIER_UIE with 'dier'
will result in just the state of the TIM_DIER_UIE bit. Next, we AND that
state with 'sr'; so sr is 0 when TIM_DIER_UIE state is low, but we get
the respective SR bit when TIM_DIER_UIE state is high. Finally, we check
the TIM_SR_UIF bit state in 'sr'.

If TIM_SR_UIF bit position is expected to match the TIM_DIER_UIE bit
position, then (sr & TIM_SR_UIF) will only be true when the state of
both the TIM_DIER_UIE bit and TIM_SR_UIF bit are high. That means you
can eliminate 'sr', 'dier', and the two regmap_read() operations with
this instead:

if (regmap_test_bits(priv->regmap, TIM_SR, TIM_SR_UIF) &&
regmap_test_bits(priv->regmap, TIM_DIER, TIM_DIER_UIE) {

> + atomic_inc(&priv->nb_ovf);

I wonder what happens when atomic_inc() increments past the atomic_t max
value. Does atomic_read() report back a negative value? Do we need to
guard against that scenario somehow?

> + counter_push_event(counter, COUNTER_EVENT_OVERFLOW_UNDERFLOW, 0);
> + dev_dbg(counter->parent, "COUNTER_EVENT_OVERFLOW_UNDERFLOW\n");
> + /* SR flags can be cleared by writing 0, only clear relevant flag */
> + clr &= ~TIM_SR_UIF;

You can use u32p_replace_bits(&clr, 0, TIM_SR_UIF) instead after
including the include/linux/bitfield.h header.

> @@ -511,6 +615,32 @@ static int stm32_timer_cnt_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>
> platform_set_drvdata(pdev, priv);
>
> + /* STM32 Timers can have either 1 global, or 4 dedicated interrupts (optional) */
> + if (priv->nr_irqs == 1) {
> + /* All events reported through the global interrupt */
> + ret = devm_request_irq(&pdev->dev, priv->irq[0], stm32_timer_cnt_isr,
> + 0, dev_name(dev), counter);
> + if (ret) {
> + dev_err(dev, "Failed to request irq %d (err %d)\n",
> + priv->irq[i], ret);

This should be irq[0], right?

I would also recommend using ddata->irq instead so we can get rid of
priv->irq outside of this probe function.

> + return ret;
> + }
> + } else {
> + for (i = 0; i < priv->nr_irqs; i++) {
> + /* Only take care of update IRQ for overflow events */
> + if (i != STM32_TIMERS_IRQ_UP)
> + continue;
> +
> + ret = devm_request_irq(&pdev->dev, priv->irq[i], stm32_timer_cnt_isr,
> + 0, dev_name(dev), counter);
> + if (ret) {
> + dev_err(dev, "Failed to request irq %d (err %d)\n",
> + priv->irq[i], ret);
> + return ret;
> + }
> + }

So we only execute the loop body once for this particular
STM32_TIMERS_IRQ_UP iteration? Why have the loop at all rather than
hardcode irq[STM32_TIMERS_IRQ_UP] for devm_request_irq()?

William Breathitt Gray

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