Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> The recent change to validate the RTC turned out to be overly tight.
>
> While it cures the problem on the reporters machine it breaks machines
> with Intel chipsets which use bit 0-5 of the D register. So check only
> for bit 6 being 0 which is the case on these Intel machines as well.
>
> Fixes: 211e5db19d15 ("rtc: mc146818: Detect and handle broken RTCs")
> Reported-by: Serge Belyshev <belyshev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Dirk Gouders <dirk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> V2: Provide the actual delta patch. Should have stayed away from
> computers today....
I tested V2 and it eliminates the warning, here.
Thank you,
Dirk
> ---
> drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c | 4 ++--
> drivers/rtc/rtc-mc146818-lib.c | 4 ++--
> 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> --- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c
> +++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c
> @@ -805,8 +805,8 @@ cmos_do_probe(struct device *dev, struct
>
> spin_lock_irq(&rtc_lock);
>
> - /* Ensure that the RTC is accessible. Bit 0-6 must be 0! */
> - if ((CMOS_READ(RTC_VALID) & 0x7f) != 0) {
> + /* Ensure that the RTC is accessible. Bit 6 must be 0! */
> + if ((CMOS_READ(RTC_VALID) & 0x40) != 0) {
> spin_unlock_irq(&rtc_lock);
> dev_warn(dev, "not accessible\n");
> retval = -ENXIO;
> --- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-mc146818-lib.c
> +++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-mc146818-lib.c
> @@ -21,8 +21,8 @@ unsigned int mc146818_get_time(struct rt
>
> again:
> spin_lock_irqsave(&rtc_lock, flags);
> - /* Ensure that the RTC is accessible. Bit 0-6 must be 0! */
> - if (WARN_ON_ONCE((CMOS_READ(RTC_VALID) & 0x7f) != 0)) {
> + /* Ensure that the RTC is accessible. Bit 6 must be 0! */
> + if (WARN_ON_ONCE((CMOS_READ(RTC_VALID) & 0x40) != 0)) {
> spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rtc_lock, flags);
> memset(time, 0xff, sizeof(*time));
> return 0;
