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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>,
	Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] HPET RTC emulation: add watchdog timer
Date: 9 Jan 2006 17:41:40 +0100
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 17:41:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060109164140.GA67021@muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060109154350.GA22126@turing.informatik.uni-halle.de>

On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 04:43:50PM +0100, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> To prevent the emulated RTC timer from stopping when interrupts are
> disabled for too long, implement the watchdog timer to restart it when
> needed.

The interrupt handler should just read the time (it likely
has to do that anyways) and check for that
directly. That is what I did in my noidletick HPET patch and it 
worked ok.

-Andi

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-01-09 16:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-09 15:43 [PATCH] HPET RTC emulation: add watchdog timer Clemens Ladisch
2006-01-09 16:15 ` Clemens Ladisch
2006-01-09 16:41 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-01-09 18:00   ` lkml
2006-01-09 20:32     ` Andi Kleen
2006-01-10  8:27       ` Clemens Ladisch

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