Re: [PATCH] Re: time() glitch on 2.4.18: solved

[Alan Cox]

On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 16:30, Jim Paris wrote:
> This works well.
> 
> -jim
> 
> diff -urN linux-2.4.18/arch/i386/kernel/time.c linux-2.4.18-jim/arch/i386/kernel/time.c
> --- linux-2.4.18/arch/i386/kernel/time.c	Fri Mar 15 18:28:53 2002
> +++ linux-2.4.18-jim/arch/i386/kernel/time.c	Tue Nov  5 11:22:02 2002
> @@ -501,6 +501,16 @@
>  
>  		count = inb_p(0x40);    /* read the latched count */
>  		count |= inb(0x40) << 8;
> +
> +		/* Any unpaired read will cause the above to swap MSB/LSB
> +		   forever.  Try to detect this and reset the counter. */
> +		if (count > LATCH) {
> +			outb_p(0x34, 0x43);
> +			outb_p(LATCH & 0xff, 0x40);
> +			outb(LATCH >> 8, 0x40);
> +			count = LATCH - 1;
> +		}
> +
>  		spin_unlock(&i8253_lock);
>  
>  		count = ((LATCH-1) - count) * TICK_SIZE;

Add a printk to address the fact we want to know about this and I think
thats enough to meet George's objection ?