Commit 075bcd1f authored by Thomas Gleixner's avatar Thomas Gleixner Committed by Linus Torvalds

i386: HPET, check if the counter works

Some systems have a HPET which is not incrementing, which leads to a
complete hang.  Detect it during HPET setup.
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent df2edcf3
......@@ -232,7 +232,8 @@ int __init hpet_enable(void)
{
unsigned long id;
uint64_t hpet_freq;
u64 tmp;
u64 tmp, start, now;
cycle_t t1;
if (!is_hpet_capable())
return 0;
......@@ -279,6 +280,27 @@ int __init hpet_enable(void)
/* Start the counter */
hpet_start_counter();
/* Verify whether hpet counter works */
t1 = read_hpet();
rdtscll(start);
/*
* We don't know the TSC frequency yet, but waiting for
* 200000 TSC cycles is safe:
* 4 GHz == 50us
* 1 GHz == 200us
*/
do {
rep_nop();
rdtscll(now);
} while ((now - start) < 200000UL);
if (t1 == read_hpet()) {
printk(KERN_WARNING
"HPET counter not counting. HPET disabled\n");
goto out_nohpet;
}
/* Initialize and register HPET clocksource
*
* hpet period is in femto seconds per cycle
......
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