The patch titled i386: PIT stop only, when in periodic or oneshot mode has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is i386-pit-stop-only-when-in-periodic-or-oneshot-mode.patch *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: i386: PIT stop only, when in periodic or oneshot mode From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> The patch is necessary on one of my boxen, where programming the stop sequence twice leads to PIT malfunction. Sigh ! Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/i386/kernel/i8253.c | 9 ++++++--- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN arch/i386/kernel/i8253.c~i386-pit-stop-only-when-in-periodic-or-oneshot-mode arch/i386/kernel/i8253.c --- a/arch/i386/kernel/i8253.c~i386-pit-stop-only-when-in-periodic-or-oneshot-mode +++ a/arch/i386/kernel/i8253.c @@ -48,9 +48,12 @@ static void init_pit_timer(enum clock_ev case CLOCK_EVT_MODE_SHUTDOWN: case CLOCK_EVT_MODE_UNUSED: - outb_p(0x30, PIT_MODE); - outb_p(0, PIT_CH0); /* LSB */ - outb_p(0, PIT_CH0); /* MSB */ + if (evt->mode == CLOCK_EVT_MODE_PERIODIC || + evt->mode == CLOCK_EVT_MODE_ONESHOT) { + outb_p(0x30, PIT_MODE); + outb_p(0, PIT_CH0); + outb_p(0, PIT_CH0); + } break; case CLOCK_EVT_MODE_ONESHOT: _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are git-acpi-add-exports.patch git-arm.patch i386-hpet-check-if-the-counter-works.patch nohz-fix-nohz-x86-dyntick-idle-handling.patch acpi-move-timer-broadcast-and-pmtimer-access-before-c3-arbiter-shutdown.patch timekeeping-fixup-shadow-variable-argument.patch timerc-cleanup-recently-introduced-whitespace-damage.patch clockevents-remove-prototypes-of-removed-functions.patch clockevents-fix-resume-logic.patch clockevents-fix-device-replacement.patch tick-management-spread-timer-interrupt.patch highres-improve-debug-output.patch hrtimer-speedup-hrtimer_enqueue.patch pcspkr-use-the-global-pit-lock.patch ntp-move-the-cmos-update-code-into-ntpc.patch i386-pit-stop-only-when-in-periodic-or-oneshot-mode.patch i386-remove-volatile-in-apicc.patch i386-hpet-assumes-boot-cpu-is-0.patch i386-move-pit-function-declarations-and-constants-to-correct-header-file.patch x86_64-untangle-asm-hpeth-from-asm-timexh.patch x86_64-use-generic-cmos-update.patch x86_64-remove-dead-code-and-other-janitor-work-in-tscc.patch x86_64-fix-apic-typo.patch x86_64-convert-to-cleckevents.patch acpi-remove-the-useless-ifdef-code.patch x86_64-hpet-restore-vread.patch x86_64-restore-restore-nohpet-cmdline.patch x86_64-block-irq-balancing-for-timer.patch x86_64-prep-idle-loop-for-dynticks.patch x86_64-enable-high-resolution-timers-and-dynticks.patch remove-clockevents_releaserequest_device.patch add-a-flag-to-indicate-deferrable-timers-in-proc-timer_stats.patch improve-behaviour-of-spurious-irq-detect.patch improve-behaviour-of-spurious-irq-detect-fix.patch sys_time-speedup.patch lguest-the-host-code.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html