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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/hpet.h | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/early-quirks.c | 18 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c | 31 |
3 files changed, 17 insertions, 33 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/hpet.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/hpet.h index 004e6e2..1d5c08a 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/hpet.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/hpet.h @@ -68,7 +68,6 @@ extern unsigned long force_hpet_address; extern u8 hpet_blockid; extern int hpet_force_user; extern u8 hpet_msi_disable; -extern u8 hpet_readback_cmp; extern int is_hpet_enabled(void); extern int hpet_enable(void); extern void hpet_disable(void); diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/early-quirks.c b/arch/x86/kernel/early-quirks.c index e5cc7e8..ebdb85c 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/early-quirks.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/early-quirks.c @@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ #include <asm/apic.h> #include <asm/iommu.h> #include <asm/gart.h> -#include <asm/hpet.h> static void __init fix_hypertransport_config(int num, int slot, int func) { @@ -192,21 +191,6 @@ static void __init ati_bugs_contd(int num, int slot, int func) } #endif -/* - * Force the read back of the CMP register in hpet_next_event() - * to work around the problem that the CMP register write seems to be - * delayed. See hpet_next_event() for details. - * - * We do this on all SMBUS incarnations for now until we have more - * information about the affected chipsets. - */ -static void __init ati_hpet_bugs(int num, int slot, int func) -{ -#ifdef CONFIG_HPET_TIMER - hpet_readback_cmp = 1; -#endif -} - #define QFLAG_APPLY_ONCE 0x1 #define QFLAG_APPLIED 0x2 #define QFLAG_DONE (QFLAG_APPLY_ONCE|QFLAG_APPLIED) @@ -236,8 +220,6 @@ static struct chipset early_qrk[] __initdata = { PCI_CLASS_SERIAL_SMBUS, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, ati_bugs }, { PCI_VENDOR_ID_ATI, PCI_DEVICE_ID_ATI_SBX00_SMBUS, PCI_CLASS_SERIAL_SMBUS, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, ati_bugs_contd }, - { PCI_VENDOR_ID_ATI, PCI_ANY_ID, - PCI_CLASS_SERIAL_SMBUS, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, ati_hpet_bugs }, {} }; diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c b/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c index 351f9c0..410fdb3 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c @@ -35,7 +35,6 @@ unsigned long hpet_address; u8 hpet_blockid; /* OS timer block num */ u8 hpet_msi_disable; -u8 hpet_readback_cmp; #ifdef CONFIG_PCI_MSI static unsigned long hpet_num_timers; @@ -395,23 +394,27 @@ static int hpet_next_event(unsigned long delta, * 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. + * 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. * - * That works fine on those ATI chipsets, but on newer Intel - * chipsets (ICH9...) this triggers due to an erratum: Reading - * the comparator immediately following a write is returning - * the old value. + * An erratum on some chipsets (ICH9,..), results in + * comparator read immediately following a write returning old + * value. Workaround for this is to read this value second + * time, when first read returns old value. * - * We restrict the read back to the affected ATI chipsets (set - * by quirks) and also run it with hpet=verbose for debugging - * purposes. + * In fact the write to the comparator register is delayed up + * to two HPET cycles so the workaround we tried to restrict + * the readback to those known to be borked ATI chipsets + * failed miserably. So we give up on optimizations forever + * and penalize all HPET incarnations unconditionally. */ - if (hpet_readback_cmp || hpet_verbose) { - u32 cmp = hpet_readl(HPET_Tn_CMP(timer)); - - if (cmp != cnt) + if (unlikely((u32)hpet_readl(HPET_Tn_CMP(timer)) != cnt)) { + if (hpet_readl(HPET_Tn_CMP(timer)) != cnt) printk_once(KERN_WARNING - "hpet: compare register read back failed.\n"); + "hpet: compare register read back failed.\n"); } return (s32)(hpet_readl(HPET_COUNTER) - cnt) >= 0 ? -ETIME : 0; |