[PATCH] x86: fix hpet timer reinit for x86_64

From: Pavel Emelyanov
Date: Wed Feb 04 2009 - 05:40:52 EST


There's a small problem with hpet_rtc_reinit function - it checks
for the
hpet_readl(HPET_COUNTER) - hpet_t1_cmp > 0
to continue increasing both the HPET_T1_CMP (register) and the
hpet_t1_cmp (variable).

But since the HPET_COUNTER is always 32-bit, if the hpet_t1_cmp
is 64-bit this condition will always be FALSE once the latter hits
the 32-bit boundary, and we can have a situation, when we don't
increase the HPET_T1_CMP register high enough.

The result - timer stops ticking, since HPET_T1_CMP becomes less,
than the COUNTER and never increased again.

The solution is to cut the upper 32-bit from the hpet_t1_cmp
variable to make the comparison to HPET_COUNTER correct.

Reported-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@xxxxxxxxxx>

---

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c b/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c
index 64d5ad0..ec319d1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c
@@ -1075,7 +1075,7 @@ static void hpet_rtc_timer_reinit(void)
hpet_t1_cmp += delta;
hpet_writel(hpet_t1_cmp, HPET_T1_CMP);
lost_ints++;
- } while ((long)(hpet_readl(HPET_COUNTER) - hpet_t1_cmp) > 0);
+ } while ((long)(hpet_readl(HPET_COUNTER) - (u32)hpet_t1_cmp) > 0);

if (lost_ints) {
if (hpet_rtc_flags & RTC_PIE)
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