Re: HPET : Legacy Routing Replacement Enable - 3rd try.

[Mika Penttilä <mika.penttila@kolumbus.fi>]

Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 04:42:38AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
>   
> > On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 02:20:22PM -0700, Om Narasimhan wrote:
> >     
> > > I tested against five different bioses (some with 8132, some with
> > > CK-804 ..etc) and I observed three different patterns.
> > >
> > > 1. HW is LRR capable, HPET ACPI it is 1, timer interrupt is on INT2.
> > > Before the fix: Linux cannot get timer interrupts on INT0, goes for ACPI 
> > > timer.
> > >       
> > What ACPI timer?  I don't think we have any fallback for int 0.
> >
> > Not sure what you mean with INT2. Pin2 on ioapic 0 perhaps?
> >
> >     
> > > After the fix : Works fine. This is according to hpet spec.
> > >       
> > On what exact motherboard was that?
> >
> >     
> > > To handle case 3, I removed all references to acpi_hpet_lrr, explained
> > > this case in the code and decided to solely rely on the command line
> > > parameter for LRR capability. Rational for this approach is ,
> > >       
> > This means the systems which you said fixes this would need the command
> > line parameter to work? 
> >
> >     
> > > 1. At present, there are not many BIOSes which implement LRR (correctly)
> > > 2. People would see the bootup message (MP-BIOS bug...) if LRR is
> > > enabled and no timer interrupt on INT0. They can pass the hpet_lrr=1
> > > to make everything work fine.
> > > Is it the right approach?
> > >       
> > Generally we try to work everywhere without command line parameter
> > unless something is terminally broken. 
> >     
>
> JFYI: The new per-cpu timekeeping code doesn't need the HPET legacy bit,
> thus not replacing IRQ0 (PIT) and IRQ13 (RTC). It still can do that, but
> will work just as well without it.
>
>   
There seems to be lot of confusion here. Current code isn't using hpet 
as tick source if legacy is not supported. This patch adds 
hpet_lrr_force but it's not clear how it interacts with hpet_use_timer - 
in some places it is hpet_use_timer and some (hpet_use_timer && 
hpet_lrr_force).

The timer is routed to ioapic pin 2 which is irq0 with source override. 
With this patch with hpet_lrr_force=1 timer irq is set to 2 for x86_64 
and 0 for i386, that can't be right?

--Mika


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