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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2010-04-13 15:31:36 +0200
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>2010-04-28 18:14:29 -0700
commit30a564be9d9554c168a654eddc2165869cc0d7bf (patch)
tree734de780e0f84a189f66ca3cbf611e6f2bc563e9 /arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c
parent1d16b0f2f3edf05f12a9e3960588e0d4854157bb (diff)
x86, hpet: Restrict read back to affected ATI chipsets
After programming the HPET, we do a readback as a workaround for ATI/SBx00 chipsets as a synchronization. Unfortunately this triggers an erratum in newer ICH chipsets (ICH9+) where reading the comparator immediately after the write returns the old value. Furthermore, as always, I/O reads are bad for performance. Therefore, restrict the readback to the chipsets that need it, or, for debugging purposes, when we are running with hpet=verbose. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com> LKML-Reference: <20100225185348.GA9674@linux-os.sc.intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c29
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c b/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c
index 23b4ecdffa9b..a198b7c87a12 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
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;
@@ -395,19 +396,23 @@ 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. 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.
- * 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.
+ * the counter register below.
+ *
+ * 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.
+ *
+ * We restrict the read back to the affected ATI chipsets (set
+ * by quirks) and also run it with hpet=verbose for debugging
+ * purposes.
*/
- if (unlikely((u32)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");
+ if (hpet_readback_cmp || hpet_verbose) {
+ u32 cmp = hpet_readl(HPET_Tn_CMP(timer));
+
+ if (cmp != cnt)
+ printk_once(KERN_WARNING
+ "hpet: compare register read back failed.\n");
}
return (s32)(hpet_readl(HPET_COUNTER) - cnt) >= 0 ? -ETIME : 0;