x86: HPET: Chose a paranoid safe value for the ETIME check
BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/823296 (imported from commit v2.6.37-rc5-64-gf1c1807) commit 995bd3bb5 (x86: Hpet: Avoid the comparator readback penalty) chose 8 HPET cycles as a safe value for the ETIME check, as we had the confirmation that the posted write to the comparator register is delayed by two HPET clock cycles on Intel chipsets which showed readback problems. After that patch hit mainline we got reports from machines with newer AMD chipsets which seem to have an even longer delay. See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1054283 and http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1069458 for further information. Boris tried to come up with an ACPI based selection of the minimum HPET cycles, but this failed on a couple of test machines. And of course we did not get any useful information from the hardware folks. For now our only option is to chose a paranoid high and safe value for the minimum HPET cycles used by the ETIME check. Adjust the minimum ns value for the HPET clockevent accordingly. Reported-Bistected-and-Tested-by: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1012131222420.2653@localhost6.localdomain6> Cc: Simon Kirby <sim@hostway.ca> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Andreas Herrmann <Andreas.Herrmann3@amd.com> Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
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