alistair23-linux/include/linux/delay.h
Russell King 9f8197980d delay: Add explanation of udelay() inaccuracy
There seems to be some misunderstanding that udelay() and friends will
always guarantee the specified delay.  This is a false understanding.
When udelay() is based on CPU cycles, it can return early for many
reasons which are detailed by Linus' reply to me in a thread in 2011:

  http://lists.openwall.net/linux-kernel/2011/01/12/372

However, a udelay test module was created in 2014 which allows udelay()
to only be 0.5% fast, which is outside of the CPU-cycles udelay()
results I measured back in 2011, which were deemed to be in the "we
don't care" region.

test_udelay() should be fixed to reflect the real allowable tolerance
on udelay(), rather than 0.5%.

Cc: David Riley <davidriley@chromium.org>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
2017-01-20 14:32:39 -08:00

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#ifndef _LINUX_DELAY_H
#define _LINUX_DELAY_H
/*
* Copyright (C) 1993 Linus Torvalds
*
* Delay routines, using a pre-computed "loops_per_jiffy" value.
*
* Please note that ndelay(), udelay() and mdelay() may return early for
* several reasons:
* 1. computed loops_per_jiffy too low (due to the time taken to
* execute the timer interrupt.)
* 2. cache behaviour affecting the time it takes to execute the
* loop function.
* 3. CPU clock rate changes.
*
* Please see this thread:
* http://lists.openwall.net/linux-kernel/2011/01/09/56
*/
#include <linux/kernel.h>
extern unsigned long loops_per_jiffy;
#include <asm/delay.h>
/*
* Using udelay() for intervals greater than a few milliseconds can
* risk overflow for high loops_per_jiffy (high bogomips) machines. The
* mdelay() provides a wrapper to prevent this. For delays greater
* than MAX_UDELAY_MS milliseconds, the wrapper is used. Architecture
* specific values can be defined in asm-???/delay.h as an override.
* The 2nd mdelay() definition ensures GCC will optimize away the
* while loop for the common cases where n <= MAX_UDELAY_MS -- Paul G.
*/
#ifndef MAX_UDELAY_MS
#define MAX_UDELAY_MS 5
#endif
#ifndef mdelay
#define mdelay(n) (\
(__builtin_constant_p(n) && (n)<=MAX_UDELAY_MS) ? udelay((n)*1000) : \
({unsigned long __ms=(n); while (__ms--) udelay(1000);}))
#endif
#ifndef ndelay
static inline void ndelay(unsigned long x)
{
udelay(DIV_ROUND_UP(x, 1000));
}
#define ndelay(x) ndelay(x)
#endif
extern unsigned long lpj_fine;
void calibrate_delay(void);
void msleep(unsigned int msecs);
unsigned long msleep_interruptible(unsigned int msecs);
void usleep_range(unsigned long min, unsigned long max);
static inline void ssleep(unsigned int seconds)
{
msleep(seconds * 1000);
}
#endif /* defined(_LINUX_DELAY_H) */