The system tick count is a 64 bit quantity that gets updated from
interrupt context, meaning that it's dangerously non-atomic and has to
be locked. The core kernel clock code did this right.
But the value was also exposed to the rest of the universe as a global
variable, and virtually nothing else was doing this correctly. Even
in the timer ISRs themselves, the interrupts may be themselves
preempted (most of our architectures support nested interrupts) by
code that wants to set timeouts and inspect system uptime.
Define a z_tick_{get,set}() API, eliminate the old variable, and make
sure everyone uses the right mechanism.
Signed-off-by: Andy Ross <andrew.j.ross@intel.com>
This was another "global variable" API. Give it function syntax too.
Also add a warning, because on nRF devices (at least) the cycle clock
runs in kHz and is too slow to give a precise answer here.
Signed-off-by: Andy Ross <andrew.j.ross@intel.com>
Adds event based scheduling logic to the kernel. Updates
management of timeouts, timers, idling etc. based on
time tracked at events rather than periodic ticks. Provides
interfaces for timers to announce and get next timer expiry
based on kernel scheduling decisions involving time slicing
of threads, timeouts and idling. Uses wall time units instead
of ticks in all scheduling activities.
The implementation involves changes in the following areas
1. Management of time in wall units like ms/us instead of ticks
The existing implementation already had an option to configure
number of ticks in a second. The new implementation builds on
top of that feature and provides option to set the size of the
scheduling granurality to mili seconds or micro seconds. This
allows most of the current implementation to be reused. Due to
this re-use and co-existence with tick based kernel, the names
of variables may contain the word "tick". However, in the
tickless kernel implementation, it represents the currently
configured time unit, which would be be mili seconds or
micro seconds. The APIs that take time as a parameter are not
impacted and they continue to pass time in mili seconds.
2. Timers would not be programmed in periodic mode
generating ticks. Instead they would be programmed in one
shot mode to generate events at the time the kernel scheduler
needs to gain control for its scheduling activities like
timers, timeouts, time slicing, idling etc.
3. The scheduler provides interfaces that the timer drivers
use to announce elapsed time and get the next time the scheduler
needs a timer event. It is possible that the scheduler may not
need another timer event, in which case the system would wait
for a non-timer event to wake it up if it is idling.
4. New APIs are defined to be implemented by timer drivers. Also
they need to handler timer events differently. These changes
have been done in the HPET timer driver. In future other timers
that support tickles kernel should implement these APIs as well.
These APIs are to re-program the timer, update and announce
elapsed time.
5. Philosopher and timer_api applications have been enabled to
test tickless kernel. Separate configuration files are created
which define the necessary CONFIG flags. Run these apps using
following command
make pristine && make BOARD=qemu_x86 CONF_FILE=prj_tickless.conf qemu
Jira: ZEP-339 ZEP-1946 ZEP-948
Change-Id: I7d950c31bf1ff929a9066fad42c2f0559a2e5983
Signed-off-by: Ramesh Thomas <ramesh.thomas@intel.com>
Convert code to use u{8,16,32,64}_t and s{8,16,32,64}_t instead of C99
integer types. There are few places we dont convert over to the new
types because of compatiability with ext/HALs or for ease of transition
at this point. Fixup a few of the PRI formatters so we build with newlib.
Jira: ZEP-2051
Change-Id: I7d2d3697cad04f20aaa8f6e77228f502cd9c8286
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@linaro.org>
This implementation of _tsc_read returns a 64-bit value that
is derived from the 64-bit tick count multiplied by hwcycles per tick,
and then it adds the current value from the 32-bit timer.
This produces a 64-bit time. There is a bunch of math here, which
could be avoided if the CPU is built with Real-Time-Clock option.
EM Starter Kit SOCs don't have this. I don't think Arduino 101 does
either.
See ZEP-1559
Change-Id: I9f846d170246556ac40fe2f45809e457c6375d8c
Signed-off-by: Chuck Jordan <cjordan@synopsys.com>
Andy Ross