[PATCH] ppc32: backport Book-E decrementer handling fix from 2.6
Eugene Surovegin
ebs at ebshome.net
Wed Apr 27 04:48:28 EST 2005
Marcelo,
this is backport of Matt Porter's patch for Book-E decrementer
handling in timer_interrupt.
The fix has been in 2.6 from August but never made it to 2.4, and I
re-discovered this fix last week :)
Original Matt's post to linuxppc-dev with explanation can be found at:
http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2004-August/017458.html
Signed-off-by: Eugene Surovegin <ebs at ebshome.net>
===== arch/ppc/kernel/time.c 1.16 vs edited =====
--- 1.16/arch/ppc/kernel/time.c 2003-07-03 09:56:34 -07:00
+++ edited/arch/ppc/kernel/time.c 2005-04-26 11:37:58 -07:00
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@
hardirq_enter(cpu);
- while ((next_dec = tb_ticks_per_jiffy - tb_delta(&jiffy_stamp)) < 0) {
+ while ((next_dec = tb_ticks_per_jiffy - tb_delta(&jiffy_stamp)) <= 0) {
jiffy_stamp += tb_ticks_per_jiffy;
if (!user_mode(regs))
ppc_do_profile(instruction_pointer(regs));
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