[MIPS] Sibyte: Fix race in sb1250_gettimeoffset().

    
From Dave Johnson <djohnson+linuxmips@sw.starentnetworks.com>:
    
sb1250_gettimeoffset() simply reads the current cpu 0 timer remaining
value, however once this counter reaches 0 and the interrupt is raised,
it immediately resets and begins to count down again.
    
If sb1250_gettimeoffset() is called on cpu 1 via do_gettimeofday() after
the timer has reset but prior to cpu 0 processing the interrupt and
taking write_seqlock() in timer_interrupt() it will return a full value
(or close to it) causing time to jump backwards 1ms. Once cpu 0 handles
the interrupt and timer_interrupt() gets far enough along it will jump
forward 1ms.
    
Fix this problem by implementing mips_hpt_*() on sb1250 using a spare
timer unrelated to the existing periodic interrupt timers. It runs at
1Mhz with a full 23bit counter.  This eliminated the custom
do_gettimeoffset() for sb1250 and allowed use of the generic
fixed_rate_gettimeoffset() using mips_hpt_*() and timerhi/timerlo.
    
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-mips/sibyte/sb1250.h b/include/asm-mips/sibyte/sb1250.h
index a474c29cd70..b09e16c93ca 100644
--- a/include/asm-mips/sibyte/sb1250.h
+++ b/include/asm-mips/sibyte/sb1250.h
@@ -45,8 +45,8 @@ extern unsigned int soc_type;
 extern unsigned int periph_rev;
 extern unsigned int zbbus_mhz;
 
+extern void sb1250_hpt_setup(void);
 extern void sb1250_time_init(void);
-extern unsigned long sb1250_gettimeoffset(void);
 extern void sb1250_mask_irq(int cpu, int irq);
 extern void sb1250_unmask_irq(int cpu, int irq);
 extern void sb1250_smp_finish(void);