After programming the HPET, we do a readback as a workaround for
ATI/SBx00 chipsets as a synchronization. Unfortunately this triggers
an erratum in newer ICH chipsets (ICH9+) where reading the comparator
immediately after the write returns the old value. Furthermore, as
always, I/O reads are bad for performance.
Therefore, restrict the readback to the chipsets that need it, or, for
debugging purposes, when we are running with hpet=verbose.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100225185348.GA9674@linux-os.sc.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
On 64-bits, using unsigned long when unsigned int suffices
needlessly creates larger code (due to the need for REX
prefixes), and most of the logic in hpet.c really doesn't need
64-bit operations.
At once this avoids the need for a couple of type casts.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A8BC9780200007800010832@vpn.id2.novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Change header guards named "ASM_X86__*" to "_ASM_X86_*" since:
a. the double underscore is ugly and pointless.
b. no leading underscore violates namespace constraints.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>