drivers: timer: Optimize RTC driver and prevent past events

The nRF RTC driver, which is used a system clock driver due to the lack
of SysTick hardware on the SoC, was using too much CPU time in its
_timer_idle_exit() implementation due to the use of 64-bit arithmetical
operations. This was causing the ISR wrapper to add excessive latency to
critical interrupts, causing BLE controller asserts.
This patch addresses the issue by using exclusively RTC ticks instead of
OS ticks, thus avoiding the necessity to convert during
_timer_idle_exit() calls, which are the most critical to interrupt
latency.

In addition the driver is now able to detect setting tick events in the
past due to it being interrupted by a higher priority context, and will
reschedule and trigger the ISR at the same time.

Change-id: I56a3be96b9fdd554c3650012d647af2f0415eb8a
Signed-off-by: Vinayak Chettimada <vinayak.kariappa.chettimada@nordicsemi.no>
Signed-off-by: Carles Cufi <carles.cufi@nordicsemi.no>
This commit is contained in:
Carles Cufi 2016-12-13 11:55:22 +01:00 committed by Anas Nashif
commit ca0951d42d

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@ -24,10 +24,62 @@
1000000000UL) / 30517578125UL)) & 0x00FFFFFF)
extern int64_t _sys_clock_tick_count;
extern int32_t _sys_idle_elapsed_ticks;
static uint32_t rtc_clock_tick_count;
#ifdef CONFIG_TICKLESS_IDLE
extern int32_t _sys_idle_elapsed_ticks;
static uint8_t volatile isr_req;
static uint8_t isr_ack;
#endif /* CONFIG_TICKLESS_IDLE */
static uint32_t rtc_compare_set(uint32_t rtc_ticks)
{
uint32_t prev, cc, elapsed_ticks;
uint8_t retry = 10;
prev = NRF_RTC1->COUNTER;
do {
/* Assert if retries failed to set compare in the future */
__ASSERT_NO_MSG(retry);
retry--;
/* update with elapsed ticks from h/w */
elapsed_ticks = (prev - rtc_clock_tick_count) & 0x00FFFFFF;
/* setup next RTC compare event by ticks */
cc = (rtc_clock_tick_count + elapsed_ticks + rtc_ticks) &
0x00FFFFFF;
NRF_RTC1->CC[0] = cc;
prev = NRF_RTC1->COUNTER;
} while (((cc - prev) & 0x00FFFFFF) < 3);
#ifdef CONFIG_TICKLESS_IDLE
/* If system clock ticks have elapsed, pend RTC IRQ which will
* call announce
*/
if (elapsed_ticks >= rtc_ticks) {
uint8_t req;
/* pending the interrupt does not trigger the RTC event, hence
* use a request/ack mechanism to let the ISR know that the
* interrupt was requested
*/
req = isr_req + 1;
if (req != isr_ack) {
isr_req = req;
}
_NvicIrqPend(NRF5_IRQ_RTC1_IRQn);
}
#endif /* CONFIG_TICKLESS_IDLE */
return elapsed_ticks;
}
#ifdef CONFIG_TICKLESS_IDLE
void _timer_idle_enter(int32_t ticks)
{
/* restrict ticks to max supported by RTC */
@ -35,51 +87,59 @@ void _timer_idle_enter(int32_t ticks)
ticks = 0x00FFFFFF / RTC_TICKS;
}
/* setup next RTC compare event by ticks amount */
NRF_RTC1->CC[0] = ((_sys_clock_tick_count + ticks) * RTC_TICKS) &
0x00FFFFFF;
/* TODO: check if CC is set to stale value */
/* Postpone RTC compare event by requested system clock ticks */
rtc_compare_set(ticks * RTC_TICKS);
}
void _timer_idle_exit(void)
{
uint32_t elapsed_ticks;
/* update with elapsed ticks from h/w */
elapsed_ticks = ((NRF_RTC1->COUNTER -
(_sys_clock_tick_count * RTC_TICKS)) /
RTC_TICKS) & 0x00FFFFFF;
/* setup next RTC compare event by 1 tick */
NRF_RTC1->CC[0] = ((_sys_clock_tick_count + elapsed_ticks + 1) *
RTC_TICKS) & 0x00FFFFFF;
/* TODO: check if CC is set to stale value */
/* Advance RTC compare event to next system clock tick */
rtc_compare_set(RTC_TICKS);
}
#endif /* CONFIG_TICKLESS_IDLE */
static void rtc1_nrf5_isr(void *arg)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_TICKLESS_IDLE
uint8_t req;
ARG_UNUSED(arg);
req = isr_req;
/* iterate here since pending the interrupt can be done from higher
* priority, and thus queuing multiple triggers
*/
while (NRF_RTC1->EVENTS_COMPARE[0] || (req != isr_ack)) {
uint32_t elapsed_ticks;
NRF_RTC1->EVENTS_COMPARE[0] = 0;
if (req != isr_ack) {
isr_ack = req;
req = isr_req;
elapsed_ticks = (NRF_RTC1->COUNTER -
rtc_clock_tick_count)
& 0x00FFFFFF;
} else {
elapsed_ticks = rtc_compare_set(RTC_TICKS);
}
#else
ARG_UNUSED(arg);
if (NRF_RTC1->EVENTS_COMPARE[0]) {
uint32_t elapsed_ticks;
NRF_RTC1->EVENTS_COMPARE[0] = 0;
#ifdef CONFIG_TICKLESS_IDLE
/* update with elapsed ticks from h/w */
_sys_idle_elapsed_ticks = ((NRF_RTC1->COUNTER -
(_sys_clock_tick_count *
RTC_TICKS)) / RTC_TICKS) &
0x00FFFFFF;
elapsed_ticks = rtc_compare_set(RTC_TICKS);
#endif
/* setup next RTC compare event */
NRF_RTC1->CC[0] = ((_sys_clock_tick_count +
_sys_idle_elapsed_ticks + 1) * RTC_TICKS)
& 0x00FFFFFF;
rtc_clock_tick_count += elapsed_ticks;
rtc_clock_tick_count &= 0x00FFFFFF;
/* TODO: check if CC is set to stale value */
/* update with elapsed ticks from the hardware */
_sys_idle_elapsed_ticks = elapsed_ticks / RTC_TICKS;
_sys_clock_tick_announce();
}