drivers/clocksource/i8253.c
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File Facts
- System
- Linux kernel
- Corpus path
drivers/clocksource/i8253.c- Extension
.c- Size
- 6090 bytes
- Lines
- 214
- Domain
- Driver Families
- Bucket
- drivers/clocksource
- Inferred role
- Driver Families: exported/initcall integration point
- Status
- integration implementation candidate
Why This File Exists
Repeatable hardware-adapter layer. Deep compatibility for every driver is out of scope; this atlas records patterns, probe lifecycles, bus glue, IRQ/DMA usage, and links back to core abstractions.
- Repeatable hardware-adapter layer. Deep compatibility for every driver is out of scope; this atlas records patterns, probe lifecycles, bus glue, IRQ/DMA usage, and links back to core abstractions.
- Exports symbols or registers init work; inspect boot/module ordering and who consumes the exported contract.
- Uses kernel synchronization; read lock ordering, sleepability, and interrupt context assumptions before translating.
- Defines or uses C structs; map object ownership, embedded links, reference counts, and lock ownership.
Dependency Surface
linux/clockchips.hlinux/init.hlinux/io.hlinux/spinlock.hlinux/timex.hlinux/module.hlinux/i8253.hlinux/smp.h
Detected Declarations
function i8253_readfunction clocksource_i8253_initfunction clockevent_i8253_disablefunction pit_shutdownfunction pit_set_oneshotfunction pit_set_periodicfunction pit_next_eventfunction clockevent_i8253_initexport i8253_lock
Annotated Snippet
// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
/*
* i8253 PIT clocksource
*/
#include <linux/clockchips.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/io.h>
#include <linux/spinlock.h>
#include <linux/timex.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/i8253.h>
#include <linux/smp.h>
/*
* Protects access to I/O ports
*
* 0040-0043 : timer0, i8253 / i8254
* 0061-0061 : NMI Control Register which contains two speaker control bits.
*/
DEFINE_RAW_SPINLOCK(i8253_lock);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(i8253_lock);
#ifdef CONFIG_CLKSRC_I8253
/*
* Since the PIT overflows every tick, its not very useful
* to just read by itself. So use jiffies to emulate a free
* running counter:
*/
static u64 i8253_read(struct clocksource *cs)
{
static int old_count;
static u32 old_jifs;
unsigned long flags;
int count;
u32 jifs;
raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&i8253_lock, flags);
/*
* Although our caller may have the read side of jiffies_lock,
* this is now a seqlock, and we are cheating in this routine
* by having side effects on state that we cannot undo if
* there is a collision on the seqlock and our caller has to
* retry. (Namely, old_jifs and old_count.) So we must treat
* jiffies as volatile despite the lock. We read jiffies
* before latching the timer count to guarantee that although
* the jiffies value might be older than the count (that is,
* the counter may underflow between the last point where
* jiffies was incremented and the point where we latch the
* count), it cannot be newer.
*/
jifs = jiffies;
outb_p(0x00, PIT_MODE); /* latch the count ASAP */
count = inb_p(PIT_CH0); /* read the latched count */
count |= inb_p(PIT_CH0) << 8;
/* VIA686a test code... reset the latch if count > max + 1 */
if (count > PIT_LATCH) {
outb_p(0x34, PIT_MODE);
outb_p(PIT_LATCH & 0xff, PIT_CH0);
outb_p(PIT_LATCH >> 8, PIT_CH0);
count = PIT_LATCH - 1;
}
/*
* It's possible for count to appear to go the wrong way for a
* couple of reasons:
*
* 1. The timer counter underflows, but we haven't handled the
* resulting interrupt and incremented jiffies yet.
* 2. Hardware problem with the timer, not giving us continuous time,
* the counter does small "jumps" upwards on some Pentium systems,
* (see c't 95/10 page 335 for Neptun bug.)
*
* Previous attempts to handle these cases intelligently were
* buggy, so we just do the simple thing now.
*/
if (count > old_count && jifs == old_jifs)
count = old_count;
old_count = count;
old_jifs = jifs;
raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&i8253_lock, flags);
count = (PIT_LATCH - 1) - count;
return (u64)(jifs * PIT_LATCH) + count;
}
static struct clocksource i8253_cs = {
Annotation
- Immediate include surface: `linux/clockchips.h`, `linux/init.h`, `linux/io.h`, `linux/spinlock.h`, `linux/timex.h`, `linux/module.h`, `linux/i8253.h`, `linux/smp.h`.
- Detected declarations: `function i8253_read`, `function clocksource_i8253_init`, `function clockevent_i8253_disable`, `function pit_shutdown`, `function pit_set_oneshot`, `function pit_set_periodic`, `function pit_next_event`, `function clockevent_i8253_init`, `export i8253_lock`.
- Atlas domain: Driver Families / drivers/clocksource.
- Implementation status: integration implementation candidate.
- Synchronization appears in or near this file; preserve lock ordering, sleepability, and interrupt-context constraints.
Implementation Notes
- This generated page is the file-by-file coverage layer; curated subsystem chapters should link here when they synthesize a multi-file control flow.
- Core OS pages should be promoted from atlas-only to deep-reviewed when they explain data structures, invariants, locking, lifecycle, and C implementation snippets.
- Driver-family pages are intentionally pattern-oriented unless they are part of the selected PCIe/NVMe representative device path.