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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] Fix hpet wrong values
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:40:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071128104040.GA20113@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071128103851.GA19701@elte.hu>


* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

>  ---------------->
>  e09e9089131ca0227a716aee143f49d084977e32 is first bad commit
>  commit e09e9089131ca0227a716aee143f49d084977e32
>  Author: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
>  Date:   Wed Nov 28 03:06:03 2007 +0100
> 
>       x86: fix wrong hpet values
>  <----------------

it's the hpet_enable() returning non-0 that is causing the crash. The 
current patch that is in x86.git is below.

	Ingo

------------------->
Subject: x86: fix wrong hpet values
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>

If hpet is not enabled in config, its init should not pretend to work,
and people should not try to get time from it.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
---
 include/asm-x86/hpet.h |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: linux-x86.q/include/asm-x86/hpet.h
===================================================================
--- linux-x86.q.orig/include/asm-x86/hpet.h
+++ linux-x86.q/include/asm-x86/hpet.h
@@ -82,8 +82,7 @@ extern irqreturn_t hpet_rtc_interrupt(in
 
 #else
 
-static inline int hpet_enable(void) { return 0; }
-static inline unsigned long hpet_readl(unsigned long a) { return 0; }
+static inline int hpet_enable(void) { return -ENODEV; }
 
 #endif /* CONFIG_HPET_TIMER */
 #endif /* ASM_X86_HPET_H */

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-28 10:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-27 12:23 [patch] Fix hpet wrong values Pavel Machek
2007-11-28  2:53 ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-28 10:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-11-28 10:40   ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2007-11-28 21:45     ` Pavel Machek

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