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MIPS: Allow 24Hz timer frequency

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A boundary exists beyond which the timer frequency becomes high enough
that timer interrupts saturate the system and either cause it to slow to
a crawl or stop functioning entirely. Where that boundary lies depends
upon a number of factors such as the overhead of each interrupt and the
overall speed of the CPU, but correlates strongly with the clock
frequency at which the CPU runs. When running on emulators during
bringup or debug of a CPU that clock frequency is very low, which
results in the boundary at which the timer frequency becomes
unsustainable being very low. The current minimum of 48Hz pushes against
boundary in certain situations in current systems. Allow the kernel to
be configured for a 24Hz timer frequency in order to avoid problems on
such slow running systems.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/11184/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Paul Burton 2015-09-22 10:16:39 -07:00 committed by Ralf Baechle
parent a13c996249
commit 6759657341
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@ -2530,6 +2530,9 @@ choice
help
Allows the configuration of the timer frequency.
config HZ_24
bool "24 HZ" if SYS_SUPPORTS_24HZ || SYS_SUPPORTS_ARBIT_HZ
config HZ_48
bool "48 HZ" if SYS_SUPPORTS_48HZ || SYS_SUPPORTS_ARBIT_HZ
@ -2553,6 +2556,9 @@ choice
endchoice
config SYS_SUPPORTS_24HZ
bool
config SYS_SUPPORTS_48HZ
bool
@ -2576,13 +2582,18 @@ config SYS_SUPPORTS_1024HZ
config SYS_SUPPORTS_ARBIT_HZ
bool
default y if !SYS_SUPPORTS_48HZ && !SYS_SUPPORTS_100HZ && \
!SYS_SUPPORTS_128HZ && !SYS_SUPPORTS_250HZ && \
!SYS_SUPPORTS_256HZ && !SYS_SUPPORTS_1000HZ && \
default y if !SYS_SUPPORTS_24HZ && \
!SYS_SUPPORTS_48HZ && \
!SYS_SUPPORTS_100HZ && \
!SYS_SUPPORTS_128HZ && \
!SYS_SUPPORTS_250HZ && \
!SYS_SUPPORTS_256HZ && \
!SYS_SUPPORTS_1000HZ && \
!SYS_SUPPORTS_1024HZ
config HZ
int
default 24 if HZ_24
default 48 if HZ_48
default 100 if HZ_100
default 128 if HZ_128