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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Typo in x86 apic.c with DIVISOR setup
[Ingo Molnar - Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 01:56:55PM +0200]
|
| * Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org> wrote:
|
| > On Fri, 10 Oct 2008, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
| >
| > > Btw I don't remember but hope it was not me who made this typo --
| >
| > What would be the difference so that you hope it wasn't you? All the
| > people make mistakes, this one has been caught and that's what really
| > matters.
|
| yeah, like most kernel newbies Cyrill is worrying way too much about
| mistakes. In 10 years time he too will have his healthy collection of
| embarrassing brown paperbag incidents and will be a lot more relaxed
| about it, just like the rest of us ;-)
|
| what matters is to fix them quickly and to learn from those mistakes
| that are avoidable.
|
| Ingo
|

Just brought first paperbag -- usefull thing I've to say :)
...

ok, what the conclusion will be on divisor side? I think
something like that maybe. Maciej?

- Cyrill -

---

Index: linux-2.6.git/arch/x86/kernel/apic.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.git.orig/arch/x86/kernel/apic.c 2008-09-26 20:43:47.000000000 +0400
+++ linux-2.6.git/arch/x86/kernel/apic.c 2008-10-10 16:37:26.000000000 +0400
@@ -332,11 +332,7 @@ int lapic_get_maxlvt(void)
*/

/* Clock divisor */
-#ifdef CONFG_X86_64
-#define APIC_DIVISOR 1
-#else
#define APIC_DIVISOR 16
-#endif

/*
* This function sets up the local APIC timer, with a timeout of
@@ -592,10 +588,10 @@ static int __init calibrate_APIC_clock(v
global_clock_event->event_handler = lapic_cal_handler;

/*
- * Setup the APIC counter to 1e9. There is no way the lapic
+ * Setup the APIC counter to maximum. There is no way the lapic
* can underflow in the 100ms detection time frame
*/
- __setup_APIC_LVTT(1000000000, 0, 0);
+ __setup_APIC_LVTT(0xffffffff, 0, 0);

/* Let the interrupts run */
local_irq_enable();

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