The clock_get_ns() API claims to return the period of a clock in
nanoseconds. Unfortunately since it returns an integer and a
clock's period is represented in units of 2^-32 nanoseconds,
the result is often an approximation, and calculating a clock
expiry deadline by multiplying clock_get_ns() by a number-of-ticks
is unacceptably inaccurate.
Introduce a new API clock_ticks_to_ns() which returns the number
of nanoseconds it takes the clock to make a given number of ticks.
This function can do the complete calculation internally and
will thus give a more accurate result.
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Reviewed-by: Luc Michel <luc@lmichel.fr>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Message-Id: <20201215150929.30311-2-peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Add the documentation about the clock inputs and outputs in devices.
This is based on the original work of Frederic Konrad.
Signed-off-by: Damien Hedde <damien.hedde@greensocs.com>
Reviewed-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Edgar E. Iglesias <edgar.iglesias@xilinx.com>
Message-id: 20200406135251.157596-6-damien.hedde@greensocs.com
[PMM: Editing pass for minor grammar, style and Sphinx
formatting fixes]
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
