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From: Sang Yan <sangyan@huawei.com>
To: <tglx@linutronix.de>, <mingo@redhat.com>, <bp@alien8.de>,
	<x86@kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: <hejie3@huawei.com>, <hewenliang4@huawei.com>,
	<wuxu.wu@huawei.com>, <hejingxian@huawei.com>
Subject: [PATCH] rtc: Fix hwclock write fail problem in x86 arch
Date: Wed, 19 May 2021 17:19:08 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210519091908.513593-1-sangyan@huawei.com> (raw)

From: Jingxian He <hejingxian@huawei.com>

When RTC_ALWAYS_BCD is set as 1, the function mc146818_set_time
ignores the reading value of RTC_CONTROL register,
and assumes that RTC always operates in binary mode.

However, the mc146818 development manual says that:
if !(CMOS_READ(RTC_CONTROL) & 0x04), then
the rtc time is in binary mode;
if (CMOS_READ(RTC_CONTROL) & 0x04), then
the rtc time is in bcd mode.

We use 'hwclock -w' to set the RTC from the system time
at our x86 machines, and we find that when 
(CMOS_READ(RTC_CONTROL) & 0x04) is equal to 1,
'hwclock -w' will fail to set the RTC.

We change the RTC_ALWAYS_BCD to 0 to parse the rtc
time according to the read value of RTC_CONTROL register.

Signed-off-by: Jingxian He <hejingxian@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jie He <hejie3@huawei.com>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/mc146818rtc.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/mc146818rtc.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/mc146818rtc.h
index 9719800..63cf0d5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/mc146818rtc.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/mc146818rtc.h
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 
 #ifndef RTC_PORT
 #define RTC_PORT(x)	(0x70 + (x))
-#define RTC_ALWAYS_BCD	1	/* RTC operates in binary mode */
+#define RTC_ALWAYS_BCD	0
 #endif
 
 #if defined(CONFIG_X86_32)
-- 
2.9.5


             reply	other threads:[~2021-05-19  9:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-19  9:19 Sang Yan [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-05-19  9:23 [PATCH] rtc: Fix hwclock write fail problem in x86 arch Jingxian He
2021-05-20  8:59 ` Thomas Gleixner

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