This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled clockevents/drivers/i8253: Add support for PIT shutdown quirk to the 4.19-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: clockevents-drivers-i8253-add-support-for-pit-shutdown-quirk.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 35b69a420bfb56b7b74cb635ea903db05e357bec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kelley <mikelley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2018 03:48:54 +0000 Subject: clockevents/drivers/i8253: Add support for PIT shutdown quirk From: Michael Kelley <mikelley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 35b69a420bfb56b7b74cb635ea903db05e357bec upstream. Add support for platforms where pit_shutdown() doesn't work because of a quirk in the PIT emulation. On these platforms setting the counter register to zero causes the PIT to start running again, negating the shutdown. Provide a global variable that controls whether the counter register is zero'ed, which platform specific code can override. Signed-off-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx" <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "jgross@xxxxxxxx" <jgross@xxxxxxxx> Cc: "akataria@xxxxxxxxxx" <akataria@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "olaf@xxxxxxxxx" <olaf@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: "apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: vkuznets <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx" <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "marcelo.cerri@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <marcelo.cerri@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: KY Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1541303219-11142-2-git-send-email-mikelley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/clocksource/i8253.c | 14 ++++++++++++-- include/linux/i8253.h | 1 + 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/clocksource/i8253.c +++ b/drivers/clocksource/i8253.c @@ -20,6 +20,13 @@ DEFINE_RAW_SPINLOCK(i8253_lock); EXPORT_SYMBOL(i8253_lock); +/* + * Handle PIT quirk in pit_shutdown() where zeroing the counter register + * restarts the PIT, negating the shutdown. On platforms with the quirk, + * platform specific code can set this to false. + */ +bool i8253_clear_counter_on_shutdown __ro_after_init = true; + #ifdef CONFIG_CLKSRC_I8253 /* * Since the PIT overflows every tick, its not very useful @@ -109,8 +116,11 @@ static int pit_shutdown(struct clock_eve raw_spin_lock(&i8253_lock); outb_p(0x30, PIT_MODE); - outb_p(0, PIT_CH0); - outb_p(0, PIT_CH0); + + if (i8253_clear_counter_on_shutdown) { + outb_p(0, PIT_CH0); + outb_p(0, PIT_CH0); + } raw_spin_unlock(&i8253_lock); return 0; --- a/include/linux/i8253.h +++ b/include/linux/i8253.h @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ #define PIT_LATCH ((PIT_TICK_RATE + HZ/2) / HZ) extern raw_spinlock_t i8253_lock; +extern bool i8253_clear_counter_on_shutdown; extern struct clock_event_device i8253_clockevent; extern void clockevent_i8253_init(bool oneshot); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mikelley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.19/x86-hyper-v-enable-pit-shutdown-quirk.patch queue-4.19/clockevents-drivers-i8253-add-support-for-pit-shutdown-quirk.patch