Help On RTC !

anniedeepa · 11-13-2009, 10:36 PM

Is it possible to turn on periodic interrupt for RTC from a kernel module ? We can do it from user space using 'RTC_IRQP_SET' and 'RTC_PIE_ON' options. But what about turning it on from kernel module?

onebuck · 11-14-2009, 09:37 AM

Hi,

You should read the rest of the 'man rtc'.

'RTC' management is very important so the use of handler/API are preferred;

Quote:

excerpt 'man rtc';

FILES
/dev/rtc, /dev/rtc0, /dev/rtc1, etc: RTC special character device files.

/proc/driver/rtc: status of the (first) RTC.

NOTES
When the kernel's system time is synchronized with an external reference using adjtimex(2) it
will update a designated RTC periodically every 11 minutes. To do so, the kernel has to briefly
turn off periodic interrupts; this might affect programs using that RTC.

An RTC's Epoch has nothing to do with the POSIX Epoch which is only used for the system clock.

If the year according to the RTC's Epoch and the year register is less than 1970 it is assumed to
be 100 years later, that is, between 2000 and 2069.

Some RTCs support "wildcard" values in alarm fields, to support scenarios like periodic alarms at
fifteen minutes after every hour, or on the first day of each month. Such usage is non-portable;
portable user space code only expects a single alarm interrupt, and will either disable or reini-
tialize the alarm after receiving it.

Some RTCs support periodic interrupts with periods that are multiples of a second rather than
fractions of a second; multiple alarms; programmable output clock signals; non-volatile memory;
and other hardware capabilities that are not currently exposed by this API.

SEE ALSO
date(1), adjtimex(2), gettimeofday(2), settimeofday(2), stime(2), time(2), gmtime(3), time(7),
hwclock(8), /usr/src/linux/Documentation/rtc.txt

You should look at '/usr/src/linux/Documentation/rtc.txt' to gain some insight. If you want to work at the kernel level then I suggest that you look at 'Linux Kernel Parameters' & 'Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition'.

The above links and others can be found at 'Slackware-Links'. More than just Slackware® links!

anniedeepa · 11-20-2009, 11:26 PM

Hi there..........,

Thanks Gary !

I turned on periodic interrupt from user space and loaded a kernel module with my ISR for RTC interrupt. What i need exactly is to execute my ISR on each RTC interrupt. But i couldnt find it working. I am attaching the code herewith. Any suggestions on what went wrong ?

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irqreturn_t my_irq_handler(int irq, void *dev_id, struct pt_regs *regs)

{
printk("Inside ISR for IRQ 8,\n");

}

int init_module(void)
{
printk("<1>Hello World\n");

request_irq(8, my_irq_handler, IRQF_SHARED,"test", NULL);

return 0;

}

void cleanup_module(void)
{
printk("<1>GoodBye World\n");
free_irq(8, NULL);
}

MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");

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*******************
int main()
{
int fd,retval,freq,i=1;
unsigned long temp,data;
fd=open("/dev/rtc0",O_RDONLY);

freq= 2;
ioctl(fd, RTC_IRQP_SET, freq);
fflush(stderr);

/* Enable periodic interrupts */
ioctl(fd, RTC_PIE_ON, 0);

while(1)
{
/* This blocks */
retval = read(fd, &data, sizeof(unsigned long));
if (retval == -1)
{
perror("read");
exit(errno);
}
fprintf(stderr, " %d",i);

i++;
}
}
*******************