Minor /dev/hpet updates and bugfixes:
* Remove dead code, mostly remnants of an incomplete/unusable
kernel interface ... noted when addressing "sparse" warnings:
+ hpet_unregister() and a routine it calls
+ hpet_task and all references, including hpet_task_lock
+ hpet_data.hd_flags (and HPET_DATA_PLATFORM)
* Correct and improve boot message:
+ displays *counter* (shared between comparators) bit width,
not *timer* bit widths (which are often mixed)
+ relabel "timers" as "comparators"; this is less confusing,
they are not independent like normal timers are (sigh)
+ display MHz not Hz; it's never less than 10 MHz.
* Tighten and correct the userspace interface code
+ don't accidentally program comparators in 64-bit mode using
32-bit values ... always force comparators into 32-bit mode
+ provide the correct bit definition flagging comparators with
periodic capability ... the ABI is unchanged
* Update Documentation/hpet.txt
+ be more correct and current
+ expand description a bit
+ don't mention that now-gone kernel interface
Plus, add a FIXME comment for something that could cause big trouble
on systems with more capable HPETs than at least Intel seems to ship.
It seems that few folk use this userspace interface; it's not very
usable given the general lack of HPET IRQ routing. I'm told that
the only real point of it any more is to mmap for fast timestamps;
IMO that's handled better through the gettimeofday() vsyscall.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Acked-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
HPET timer's IRQ is 0 by default. So we have to select which irq
will be used by these timers. We wait to set the timer's irq until
we really open it in order to reduce the chance of conflicting with
other device.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hao <kexin.hao@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The commits:
commit 37a47db8d7
Author: Balaji Rao <balajirrao@gmail.com>
Date: Wed Jan 30 13:30:03 2008 +0100
x86: assign IRQs to HPET timers, fix
and
commit e3f37a54f6
Author: Balaji Rao <balajirrao@gmail.com>
Date: Wed Jan 30 13:30:03 2008 +0100
x86: assign IRQs to HPET timers
have been identified to cause a regression on some platforms due to
the assignement of legacy IRQs which makes the legacy devices
connected to those IRQs disfunctional.
Revert them.
This fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10382
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The userspace API for the HPET (see Documentation/hpet.txt) did not work. The
HPET_IE_ON ioctl was failing as there was no IRQ assigned to the timer
device. This patch fixes it by allocating IRQs to timer blocks in the HPET.
arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c | 13 +++++--------
drivers/char/hpet.c | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
include/linux/hpet.h | 2 +-
3 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: Balaji Rao <balajirrao@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Add __KERNEL__ block.
Use __KERNEL__ to allow ioctl interface to be usable.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
David Brownell