From 643d83f0a3518d6fbcf88f970de0340a5aa6b5a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Gleixner Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 08:28:45 +0200 Subject: x86/hpet: Undo the early counter is counting check Rui reported that on a Pentium D machine which has HPET forced enabled because it is not advertised by ACPI, the early counter is counting check leads to a silent boot hang. The reason is that the ordering of checking the counter first and then reconfiguring the HPET fails to work on that machine. As the HPET is not advertised and presumably not initialized by the BIOS the early enable and the following reconfiguration seems to bring it into a broken state. Adding clocksource=jiffies to the command line results in the following clocksource watchdog warning: clocksource: timekeeping watchdog on CPU1: Marking clocksource 'tsc-early' as unstable because the skew is too large: clocksource: 'hpet' wd_now: 33 wd_last: 33 mask: ffffffff That clearly shows that the HPET is not counting after it got reconfigured and reenabled. If the counter is not working then the HPET timer is not expiring either, which explains the boot hang. Move the counter is counting check after the full configuration again to unbreak these systems. Reported-by: Rui Salvaterra Fixes: 3222daf970f3 ("x86/hpet: Separate counter check out of clocksource register code") Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Tested-by: Rui Salvaterra Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.21.1907250810530.1791@nanos.tec.linutronix.de --- arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c | 12 ++++++++---- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c') diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c b/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c index c43e96a938d0..c6f791bc481e 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c @@ -827,10 +827,6 @@ int __init hpet_enable(void) if (!hpet_cfg_working()) goto out_nohpet; - /* Validate that the counter is counting */ - if (!hpet_counting()) - goto out_nohpet; - /* * Read the period and check for a sane value: */ @@ -896,6 +892,14 @@ int __init hpet_enable(void) } hpet_print_config(); + /* + * Validate that the counter is counting. This needs to be done + * after sanitizing the config registers to properly deal with + * force enabled HPETs. + */ + if (!hpet_counting()) + goto out_nohpet; + clocksource_register_hz(&clocksource_hpet, (u32)hpet_freq); if (id & HPET_ID_LEGSUP) { -- cgit v1.2.3