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authorRavikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>2007-04-13 16:28:20 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-04-14 21:44:03 -0700
commitc9c57929d23e44f258d1b6e7f089e72c85f0bd1c (patch)
tree423990aed32fc6f8e1add83ec2d8976c8e9a81e9 /arch
parentff99e40230d5cdf5e48bcdb4938d0626624bc4cb (diff)
downloadlinux-c9c57929d23e44f258d1b6e7f089e72c85f0bd1c.tar.bz2
failsafe mechanism to HPET clock calibration
Provide a failsafe mechanism to avoid kernel spinning forever at read_hpet_tsc during early kernel bootup. This failsafe mechanism was originally introduced in commit 2f7a2a79c3ebb44f8b1b7d9b4fd3a650eb69e544, but looks like the hpet split from time.c lost it again. This reintroduces the failsafe mechanism Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org> Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86_64/kernel/hpet.c9
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/hpet.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/hpet.c
index 8cf0b8a13778..b8286968662d 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/hpet.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/hpet.c
@@ -191,6 +191,7 @@ int hpet_reenable(void)
#define TICK_COUNT 100000000
#define TICK_MIN 5000
+#define MAX_TRIES 5
/*
* Some platforms take periodic SMI interrupts with 5ms duration. Make sure none
@@ -198,13 +199,15 @@ int hpet_reenable(void)
*/
static void __init read_hpet_tsc(int *hpet, int *tsc)
{
- int tsc1, tsc2, hpet1;
+ int tsc1, tsc2, hpet1, i;
- do {
+ for (i = 0; i < MAX_TRIES; i++) {
tsc1 = get_cycles_sync();
hpet1 = hpet_readl(HPET_COUNTER);
tsc2 = get_cycles_sync();
- } while (tsc2 - tsc1 > TICK_MIN);
+ if (tsc2 - tsc1 > TICK_MIN)
+ break;
+ }
*hpet = hpet1;
*tsc = tsc2;
}