nuttx/arch/arm64
Jukka Laitinen 429252152a arch/arm64/src/common/arm64_arch_timer.c: Remove clock drift from tick timer
This fixes two issues with the tick timer
1) Each tick was longer than the requested period. This is because setting
   the compare register was done by first reading the current time, and only
   after that setting the compare register. In addition, when handling the
   timer interrupts in arch_alarm.c / oneshot_callback, the current_tick is
   first read, all the tick handling is done and only after that the next tick
   is started. The whole tick processing time was added to the total tick time.

2) When the compare time is not aligned with tick period, and is drifting,
   eventually any call to ONESHOT_TICK_CURRENT would either return the current
   tick, or the next one, depending on the rounding of division by the
   cycle_per_tick. This again leads to oneshot_callback randomly handling
   two ticks at a time, which breaks all wdog based timers, causing them to
   randomly timeout too early.

The issues are fixed as follows:

Align the compare time register to be evenly divisible by cycle_per_tick.
This will lead arm64_tick_current always to return the currently ongoing tick,
fixing 2). Also calculating the next tick's start from the aligned current
count will fix 1), as there is no time drift in the start cycle.

Signed-off-by: Jukka Laitinen <jukkax@ssrc.tii.ae>
2024-09-30 19:23:01 +08:00
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include arch: inline up_switch_context,in arm arm64 2024-09-28 19:08:15 +08:00
src arch/arm64/src/common/arm64_arch_timer.c: Remove clock drift from tick timer 2024-09-30 19:23:01 +08:00
CMakeLists.txt CMake:init arm64 CMake qemu-armv8a build 2023-12-27 07:27:17 -08:00
Kconfig arm64:add busy wait flag 2024-09-29 00:01:44 +08:00