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2007-11-15[MIPS] Sibyte: Stop timers before programming next even.Ralf Baechle
We have no guarantee by the generic time code that the timer is stopped when the ->next_event method is called. Modifying the Timer Initial Count register while the timer is enabled has UNPREDICTABLE effect according to the BCM1250/BCM1125/BCM1125H User Manual. So stop the timer before reprogramming. This is a paranoia fix; no ill effects have been observed previously. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-11-15[MIPS] Sibyte: Increase minimum oneshot timer interval to two ticks.Ralf Baechle
For the old minimum of a single tick a value of zero would be programmed into the init value register which in the BCM1250/BCM1125/BCM1125H User Manual in the Timer Special Cases section is documented to have UNPREDICTABLE effect. Observable sympthoms of this bug were hangs of several seconds on the console during bootup and later if both dyntick and highres timer options were activated. In theory contiguous mode of the timers is also affected but in an act of hopeless lack of realism I'll assume nobody will ever configure a KERNEL for HZ > 500kHz but if so I leave that to evolution to sort out. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-11-15[MIPS] Sibyte: pin timer interrupt to their cores.Ralf Baechle
Or strange things will happen. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-11-02[MIPS] Sibyte: Split and move clock code.Ralf Baechle
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>