From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753732AbXDNArX (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Apr 2007 20:47:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754155AbXDNArX (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Apr 2007 20:47:23 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:47203 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753732AbXDNArX (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Apr 2007 20:47:23 -0400 From: Andi Kleen Organization: SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Nuernberg, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) To: Ravikiran G Thirumalai Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.21-rc6] failsafe mechanism to HPET clock calibration Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 02:46:47 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jack Steiner , john stultz , shai@scalex86.org, benzi@scalex86.org, discuss@x86-64.org References: <20070413232820.GA9496@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20070413232820.GA9496@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200704140246.47937.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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