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SubjectRe: patch: delay_50ms() in ide-probe.c in 2.2.14
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 <arijort@valinux.com> wrote:
>
> Simple arithmetic tells me this patch
>
> a) produces same behavior as previous code, and

No.

> b) does it with fewer calculations.
>
> So it has to be good, right?

No. Its bad and doesn't work.

> But then how do we exit the while loop?

In your case: never.

> How does jiffies change?

It is modified from the timer interrupt. It is also marked "volatile".
This means that the compiler is NOT allowed to move the "move jiffies
into a register" outside the while loop.

So, without that volatile the compiler would indeed be allowed to
do something like

load jiffies, r4 ; jiffies temporarily in r4.
add r4, 6, r5 ; calculate timeout into r5.

0: sub r4, r5, r0
jnz 0b

(which if the compiler is really good actually optimizes even futher:
0: jmp 0b
)

but with the volatile attribute on the "jiffies" variable, it will
need to reload "jiffies" every time around the loop:

load jiffies, r4 ; jiffies temporarily in r4.
add r4, 6, r5 ; calculate timeout into r5.

0: load jiffies, r4 ; reload jiffies in r4.
sub r4, r5, r0
jnz 0b

And the timer interrupt will increment jiffies 100 times
a second, until the thing times out.

Roger.


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