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author | Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> | 2008-09-05 17:05:33 -0400 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-09-06 09:33:31 -0400 |
commit | dfdf748a61a21b7397b9f57c83de722de71dc56a (patch) | |
tree | 78fce25782a3a313a4d8db4464a849e66cc77fa8 /Documentation | |
parent | 4ff4b9e19a80b73959ebeb28d1df40176686f0a8 (diff) |
clocksource, acpi_pm.c: use proper read function also in errata mode
On all hardware (some Intel ICH4, PIIX4 and PIIX4E chipsets) affected by a
hardware errata there's about a 4.2% chance that initialization of the
ACPI PMTMR fails. On those chipsets, we need to read out the timer value
at least three times to get a correct result, for every once in a while
(i.e. within a 3 ns window every 69.8 ns) the read returns a bogus
result. During normal operation we work around this issue, but during
initialization reading a bogus value may lead to -EINVAL even though the
hardware is usable.
Thanks to Andreas Mohr for spotting this issue.
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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