/* * i8253 PIT clocksource */ #include #include #include #include #include #include /* * Since the PIT overflows every tick, its not very useful * to just read by itself. So use jiffies to emulate a free * running counter: */ static cycle_t i8253_read(struct clocksource *cs) { static int old_count; static u32 old_jifs; unsigned long flags; int count; u32 jifs; raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&i8253_lock, flags); /* * Although our caller may have the read side of xtime_lock, * this is now a seqlock, and we are cheating in this routine * by having side effects on state that we cannot undo if * there is a collision on the seqlock and our caller has to * retry. (Namely, old_jifs and old_count.) So we must treat * jiffies as volatile despite the lock. We read jiffies * before latching the timer count to guarantee that although * the jiffies value might be older than the count (that is, * the counter may underflow between the last point where * jiffies was incremented and the point where we latch the * count), it cannot be newer. */ jifs = jiffies; outb_pit(0x00, PIT_MODE); /* latch the count ASAP */ count = inb_pit(PIT_CH0); /* read the latched count */ count |= inb_pit(PIT_CH0) << 8; /* VIA686a test code... reset the latch if count > max + 1 */ if (count > LATCH) { outb_pit(0x34, PIT_MODE); outb_pit(PIT_LATCH & 0xff, PIT_CH0); outb_pit(PIT_LATCH >> 8, PIT_CH0); count = PIT_LATCH - 1; } /* * It's possible for count to appear to go the wrong way for a * couple of reasons: * * 1. The timer counter underflows, but we haven't handled the * resulting interrupt and incremented jiffies yet. * 2. Hardware problem with the timer, not giving us continuous time, * the counter does small "jumps" upwards on some Pentium systems, * (see c't 95/10 page 335 for Neptun bug.) * * Previous attempts to handle these cases intelligently were * buggy, so we just do the simple thing now. */ if (count > old_count && jifs == old_jifs) count = old_count; old_count = count; old_jifs = jifs; raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&i8253_lock, flags); count = (PIT_LATCH - 1) - count; return (cycle_t)(jifs * PIT_LATCH) + count; } static struct clocksource i8253_cs = { .name = "pit", .rating = 110, .read = i8253_read, .mask = CLOCKSOURCE_MASK(32), }; int __init clocksource_i8253_init(void) { return clocksource_register_hz(&i8253_cs, PIT_TICK_RATE); }