[PATCH] powerpc/booke: don't reinitialize time base

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Jun 27 23:10:08 EST 2008


For some reason long ago I decided that we should zero out the time base
when we calibrate the decrementer.  The problem is that this can be
harmful in SMP systems where the firmware has already synchronized the
time bases on the various cores.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c |    4 ----
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c
index c73fc33..eb93880 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c
@@ -742,10 +742,6 @@ void __init generic_calibrate_decr(void)
 	}

 #if defined(CONFIG_BOOKE) || defined(CONFIG_40x)
-	/* Set the time base to zero */
-	mtspr(SPRN_TBWL, 0);
-	mtspr(SPRN_TBWU, 0);
-
 	/* Clear any pending timer interrupts */
 	mtspr(SPRN_TSR, TSR_ENW | TSR_WIS | TSR_DIS | TSR_FIS);

-- 
1.5.5.1




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