[patch 6/6] HPET: make minimum reprogramming delta useful

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>]

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The minimum reprogramming delta was hardcoded in HPET ticks,
which is stupid as it does not work with faster running HPETs.
The C1E idle patches made this prominent on AMD/RS690 chipsets,
where the HPET runs with 25MHz. Set it to 5us which seems to be
a reasonable value and fixes the problems on the bug reporters
machines. We have a further sanity check now in the clock events,
which increases the delta when it is not sufficient.

Tested-by: Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>
Tested-by: Dmitry Nezhevenko <dion@inhex.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

---
 arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c
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--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c
+++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c
@@ -210,8 +210,8 @@ static void hpet_legacy_clockevent_regis
 	/* Calculate the min / max delta */
 	hpet_clockevent.max_delta_ns = clockevent_delta2ns(0x7FFFFFFF,
 							   &hpet_clockevent);
-	hpet_clockevent.min_delta_ns = clockevent_delta2ns(0x30,
-							   &hpet_clockevent);
+	/* 5 usec minimum reprogramming delta. */
+	hpet_clockevent.min_delta_ns = 5000;
 
 	/*
 	 * Start hpet with the boot cpu mask and make it

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