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From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>,
	Linux Kernel ML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	robert.picco@hp.com, venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com,
	mingo@redhat.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch] Fix the possibility of insane return value of hpet_calibrate() against SMI. (take 2)
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 09:25:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090318082523.GA11543@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49C0A65E.2000101@ladisch.de>

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 08:44:30AM +0100, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> Yasunori Goto wrote:
> > hpet_calibrate() has a possibility of miss-calibration due to SMI.
> > If SMI interrupts in the while loop of calibration, then return value
> > will be big. This change calibrates until stabilizing by the return
> > value with a small value.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>

Acked-by: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
Director SuSE Labs

  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-18  8:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-13  5:00 [Patch] Fix the possibility of insane return value of hpet_calibrate() against SMI Yasunori Goto
2009-03-14  8:23 ` Rik van Riel
2009-03-15 19:56 ` Paul Gortmaker
2009-03-16  2:34   ` Yasunori Goto
2009-03-16  8:59     ` Vojtech Pavlik
2009-03-16  9:52     ` Clemens Ladisch
2009-03-17 10:12       ` Yasunori Goto
2009-03-17 13:12         ` Paul Gortmaker
2009-03-18  0:45           ` Yasunori Goto
2009-03-18  2:47             ` [Patch] Fix the possibility of insane return value of hpet_calibrate() against SMI. (take 2) Yasunori Goto
2009-03-18  7:44               ` Clemens Ladisch
2009-03-18  8:25                 ` Vojtech Pavlik [this message]
2009-03-18 13:55               ` Paul Gortmaker
2009-03-18 15:11                 ` Clemens Ladisch
2009-03-18 15:32                   ` Paul Gortmaker
2009-03-30 21:06               ` Andrew Morton
2009-03-30 21:23                 ` Paul Gortmaker

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