x86: Add quick TSC calibration via PIT

Use the same way that Linux does for quick TSC calibration via PIT
when calibration via MSR fails.

Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>

2 files changed, 159 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/i8254.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/i8254.h
index c3ccd4f906..4116de1f07 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/i8254.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/i8254.h
@@ -36,4 +36,7 @@
 #define PIT_CMD_MODE4	0x08		/* Select mode 4 */
 #define PIT_CMD_MODE5	0x0A		/* Select mode 5 */
 
+/* The clock frequency of the i8253/i8254 PIT */
+#define PIT_TICK_RATE	1193182ul
+
 #endif
diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/tsc_timer.c b/arch/x86/lib/tsc_timer.c
index 7cdde4a23a..ceff60c40e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/lib/tsc_timer.c
+++ b/arch/x86/lib/tsc_timer.c
@@ -116,6 +116,158 @@ fail:
 	return 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * This reads the current MSB of the PIT counter, and
+ * checks if we are running on sufficiently fast and
+ * non-virtualized hardware.
+ *
+ * Our expectations are:
+ *
+ *  - the PIT is running at roughly 1.19MHz
+ *
+ *  - each IO is going to take about 1us on real hardware,
+ *    but we allow it to be much faster (by a factor of 10) or
+ *    _slightly_ slower (ie we allow up to a 2us read+counter
+ *    update - anything else implies a unacceptably slow CPU
+ *    or PIT for the fast calibration to work.
+ *
+ *  - with 256 PIT ticks to read the value, we have 214us to
+ *    see the same MSB (and overhead like doing a single TSC
+ *    read per MSB value etc).
+ *
+ *  - We're doing 2 reads per loop (LSB, MSB), and we expect
+ *    them each to take about a microsecond on real hardware.
+ *    So we expect a count value of around 100. But we'll be
+ *    generous, and accept anything over 50.
+ *
+ *  - if the PIT is stuck, and we see *many* more reads, we
+ *    return early (and the next caller of pit_expect_msb()
+ *    then consider it a failure when they don't see the
+ *    next expected value).
+ *
+ * These expectations mean that we know that we have seen the
+ * transition from one expected value to another with a fairly
+ * high accuracy, and we didn't miss any events. We can thus
+ * use the TSC value at the transitions to calculate a pretty
+ * good value for the TSC frequencty.
+ */
+static inline int pit_verify_msb(unsigned char val)
+{
+	/* Ignore LSB */
+	inb(0x42);
+	return inb(0x42) == val;
+}
+
+static inline int pit_expect_msb(unsigned char val, u64 *tscp,
+				 unsigned long *deltap)
+{
+	int count;
+	u64 tsc = 0, prev_tsc = 0;
+
+	for (count = 0; count < 50000; count++) {
+		if (!pit_verify_msb(val))
+			break;
+		prev_tsc = tsc;
+		tsc = rdtsc();
+	}
+	*deltap = rdtsc() - prev_tsc;
+	*tscp = tsc;
+
+	/*
+	 * We require _some_ success, but the quality control
+	 * will be based on the error terms on the TSC values.
+	 */
+	return count > 5;
+}
+
+/*
+ * How many MSB values do we want to see? We aim for
+ * a maximum error rate of 500ppm (in practice the
+ * real error is much smaller), but refuse to spend
+ * more than 50ms on it.
+ */
+#define MAX_QUICK_PIT_MS 50
+#define MAX_QUICK_PIT_ITERATIONS (MAX_QUICK_PIT_MS * PIT_TICK_RATE / 1000 / 256)
+
+static unsigned long quick_pit_calibrate(void)
+{
+	int i;
+	u64 tsc, delta;
+	unsigned long d1, d2;
+
+	/* Set the Gate high, disable speaker */
+	outb((inb(0x61) & ~0x02) | 0x01, 0x61);
+
+	/*
+	 * Counter 2, mode 0 (one-shot), binary count
+	 *
+	 * NOTE! Mode 2 decrements by two (and then the
+	 * output is flipped each time, giving the same
+	 * final output frequency as a decrement-by-one),
+	 * so mode 0 is much better when looking at the
+	 * individual counts.
+	 */
+	outb(0xb0, 0x43);
+
+	/* Start at 0xffff */
+	outb(0xff, 0x42);
+	outb(0xff, 0x42);
+
+	/*
+	 * The PIT starts counting at the next edge, so we
+	 * need to delay for a microsecond. The easiest way
+	 * to do that is to just read back the 16-bit counter
+	 * once from the PIT.
+	 */
+	pit_verify_msb(0);
+
+	if (pit_expect_msb(0xff, &tsc, &d1)) {
+		for (i = 1; i <= MAX_QUICK_PIT_ITERATIONS; i++) {
+			if (!pit_expect_msb(0xff-i, &delta, &d2))
+				break;
+
+			/*
+			 * Iterate until the error is less than 500 ppm
+			 */
+			delta -= tsc;
+			if (d1+d2 >= delta >> 11)
+				continue;
+
+			/*
+			 * Check the PIT one more time to verify that
+			 * all TSC reads were stable wrt the PIT.
+			 *
+			 * This also guarantees serialization of the
+			 * last cycle read ('d2') in pit_expect_msb.
+			 */
+			if (!pit_verify_msb(0xfe - i))
+				break;
+			goto success;
+		}
+	}
+	debug("Fast TSC calibration failed\n");
+	return 0;
+
+success:
+	/*
+	 * Ok, if we get here, then we've seen the
+	 * MSB of the PIT decrement 'i' times, and the
+	 * error has shrunk to less than 500 ppm.
+	 *
+	 * As a result, we can depend on there not being
+	 * any odd delays anywhere, and the TSC reads are
+	 * reliable (within the error).
+	 *
+	 * kHz = ticks / time-in-seconds / 1000;
+	 * kHz = (t2 - t1) / (I * 256 / PIT_TICK_RATE) / 1000
+	 * kHz = ((t2 - t1) * PIT_TICK_RATE) / (I * 256 * 1000)
+	 */
+	delta *= PIT_TICK_RATE;
+	delta /= (i*256*1000);
+	debug("Fast TSC calibration using PIT\n");
+	return delta / 1000;
+}
+
 void timer_set_base(u64 base)
 {
 	gd->arch.tsc_base = base;
@@ -142,6 +294,10 @@ unsigned __attribute__((no_instrument_function)) long get_tbclk_mhz(void)
 	unsigned long fast_calibrate;
 
 	fast_calibrate = try_msr_calibrate_tsc();
+	if (fast_calibrate)
+		return fast_calibrate;
+
+	fast_calibrate = quick_pit_calibrate();
 	if (!fast_calibrate)
 		panic("TSC frequency is ZERO");