From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>,
john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>,
shai@scalex86.org, benzi@scalex86.org, discuss@x86-64.org
Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.21-rc6] failsafe mechanism to HPET clock calibration
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 02:46:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200704140246.47937.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070413232820.GA9496@localhost.localdomain>
On Saturday 14 April 2007 01:28:20 Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote:
> Provide a failsafe mechanism to avoid kernel spinning for ever at read_hpet_tsc
> during early kernel bootup.
>
> This failsafe mechanism was introduced in 21-rc,
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=2f7a2a79c3ebb44f8b1b7d9b4fd3a650eb69e544
>
> But looks like the hpet split from time.c lost the commit.
>
> This patch reintroduces the failsafe mechanism
Added thanks
-Andi
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2007-04-13 23:28 [patch 2.6.21-rc6] failsafe mechanism to HPET clock calibration Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2007-04-14 0:46 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
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