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hpet: fix unwanted interrupt due to stale irq status bit
authorClemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:22:13 +0000 (14:22 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Thu, 9 Dec 2010 21:26:36 +0000 (13:26 -0800)
commit0256a79e5c86c57bbeffcb78bec780ebed635dfb
treee2178e9a2408a6bb44c92b11fa746a47f43c4864
parent27ea78356e23cc5ea5526053a5e77ef75b201d35
hpet: fix unwanted interrupt due to stale irq status bit

commit 96e9694df446d1154ec2f4fdba8908588b9cba38 upstream.

Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> By executing Documentation/timers/hpet_example.c
>
> for polling, I requested for 3 iterations but it seems iteration work
> for only 2 as first expired time is always very small.
>
> # ./hpet_example poll /dev/hpet 10 3
> -hpet: executing poll
> hpet_poll: info.hi_flags 0x0
> hpet_poll: expired time = 0x13
> hpet_poll: revents = 0x1
> hpet_poll: data 0x1
> hpet_poll: expired time = 0x1868c
> hpet_poll: revents = 0x1
> hpet_poll: data 0x1
> hpet_poll: expired time = 0x18645
> hpet_poll: revents = 0x1
> hpet_poll: data 0x1

Clearing the HPET interrupt enable bit disables interrupt generation
but does not disable the timer, so the interrupt status bit will still
be set when the timer elapses.  If another interrupt arrives before
the timer has been correctly programmed (due to some other device on
the same interrupt line, or CONFIG_DEBUG_SHIRQ), this results in an
extra unwanted interrupt event because the status bit is likely to be
set from comparator matches that happened before the device was opened.

Therefore, we have to ensure that the interrupt status bit is and
stays cleared until we actually program the timer.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Reported-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderlinux@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Bob Picco <bpicco@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
drivers/char/hpet.c