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m68k: mac: Improve clocksource driver commentary

qemu-system-m68k -M q800 has an old bug that causes the kernel to
occasionally complain about a soft lockup:

watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 5107s!

There isn't any actual lockup. The via1 clocksource produced a large
jump in jiffies, causing the watchdog to detect a stale timestamp.

The 32-bit clocksource counter runs at 783360 Hz and its period is
about 5482 seconds. Applying the "nanosecond" approximation used in
get_timestamp() in kernel/watchdog.c then yields the duration reported
in the log message above (always 5107 or 5108 in my tests):

0xffffffff / VIA_CLOCK_FREQ * 10**9 / 2**30 = 5106.209 seconds

It is notoriously difficult to correctly emulate a MOS6522 VIA chip. So
it seems wise to document the VIA clocksource driver better, especially
those hardware behaviours which the kernel relies upon.

Cc: Joshua Thompson <funaho@jurai.org>
Signed-off-by: Finn Thain <fthain@linux-m68k.org>
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/f7b4c02a1c8ed74ccceb5535d7e1e202deada8ce.1750739568.git.fthain@linux-m68k.org
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>

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Finn Thain and committed by
Geert Uytterhoeven
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arch/m68k/mac/via.c
··· 621 621 * These problems are avoided by ignoring the low byte. Clock accuracy 622 622 * is 256 times worse (error can reach 0.327 ms) but CPU overhead is 623 623 * reduced by avoiding slow VIA register accesses. 624 + * 625 + * The VIA timer counter observably decrements to 0xFFFF before the 626 + * counter reload interrupt gets raised. That complicates things a bit. 627 + * 628 + * State | vT1CH | VIA_TIMER_1_INT | inference drawn 629 + * ------+------------+-----------------+----------------------------- 630 + * i | FE thru 00 | false | counter is decrementing 631 + * ii | FF | false | counter wrapped 632 + * iii | FF | true | wrapped, interrupt raised 633 + * iv | FF | false | wrapped, interrupt handled 634 + * v | FE thru 00 | true | wrapped, interrupt unhandled 635 + * 636 + * State iv is never observed because handling the interrupt involves 637 + * a 6522 register access and every access consumes a "phi 2" clock 638 + * cycle. So 0xFF implies either state ii or state iii, depending on 639 + * the value of the VIA_TIMER_1_INT bit. 624 640 */ 625 641 626 642 local_irq_save(flags);