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authorJack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>2007-02-13 13:26:24 +0100
committerAndi Kleen <andi@basil.nowhere.org>2007-02-13 13:26:24 +0100
commit2f7a2a79c3ebb44f8b1b7d9b4fd3a650eb69e544 (patch)
tree9f68a5db49a92991b85101e4d4cbd423822abb8c /arch
parent6c5806cae50717f31878d0da29109b10610ab862 (diff)
[PATCH] x86-64: - Ignore long SMI interrupts in clock calibration code - update 1
Add failsafe mechanism to HPET/TSC clock calibration. Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Updated to include failsafe mechanism & additional community feedback. Patch built on latest 2.6.20-rc4-mm1 tree. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86_64/kernel/time.c9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/time.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/time.c
index 335cc91c49b..9c7fba30dac 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/time.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/time.c
@@ -657,6 +657,7 @@ core_initcall(cpufreq_tsc);
#define TICK_COUNT 100000000
#define TICK_MIN 5000
+#define MAX_READ_RETRIES 5
/*
* Some platforms take periodic SMI interrupts with 5ms duration. Make sure none
@@ -664,13 +665,17 @@ core_initcall(cpufreq_tsc);
*/
static void __init read_hpet_tsc(int *hpet, int *tsc)
{
- int tsc1, tsc2, hpet1;
+ int tsc1, tsc2, hpet1, retries = 0;
+ static int msg;
do {
tsc1 = get_cycles_sync();
hpet1 = hpet_readl(HPET_COUNTER);
tsc2 = get_cycles_sync();
- } while (tsc2 - tsc1 > TICK_MIN);
+ } while (tsc2 - tsc1 > TICK_MIN && retries++ < MAX_READ_RETRIES);
+ if (retries >= MAX_READ_RETRIES && !msg++)
+ printk(KERN_WARNING
+ "hpet.c: exceeded max retries to read HPET & TSC\n");
*hpet = hpet1;
*tsc = tsc2;
}