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| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c | 19 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c b/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c index 7f024ff47d1..ba6e6588460 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c @@ -384,11 +384,22 @@ static int hpet_next_event(unsigned long delta, hpet_writel(cnt, HPET_Tn_CMP(timer)); /* - * We need to read back the CMP register to make sure that - * what we wrote hit the chip before we compare it to the - * counter. + * We need to read back the CMP register on certain HPET + * implementations (ATI chipsets) which seem to delay the + * transfer of the compare register into the internal compare + * logic. With small deltas this might actually be too late as + * the counter could already be higher than the compare value + * at that point and we would wait for the next hpet interrupt + * forever. We found out that reading the CMP register back + * forces the transfer so we can rely on the comparison with + * the counter register below. If the read back from the + * compare register does not match the value we programmed + * then we might have a real hardware problem. We can not do + * much about it here, but at least alert the user/admin with + * a prominent warning. */ - WARN_ON_ONCE(hpet_readl(HPET_Tn_CMP(timer)) != cnt); + WARN_ONCE(hpet_readl(HPET_Tn_CMP(timer)) != cnt, + KERN_WARNING "hpet: compare register read back failed.\n"); return (s32)(hpet_readl(HPET_COUNTER) - cnt) >= 0 ? -ETIME : 0; } |