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Commit 30a564be authored by Thomas Gleixner's avatar Thomas Gleixner Committed by H. Peter Anvin
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x86, hpet: Restrict read back to affected ATI chipsets



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: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: default avatarVenkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100225185348.GA9674@linux-os.sc.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
parent 1d16b0f2
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