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    x86/hpet: Undo the early counter is counting check · 643d83f0
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    Rui reported that on a Pentium D machine which has HPET forced enabled
    because it is not advertised by ACPI, the early counter is counting check
    leads to a silent boot hang.
    
    The reason is that the ordering of checking the counter first and then
    reconfiguring the HPET fails to work on that machine. As the HPET is not
    advertised and presumably not initialized by the BIOS the early enable and
    the following reconfiguration seems to bring it into a broken state. Adding
    clocksource=jiffies to the command line results in the following
    clocksource watchdog warning:
    
      clocksource: timekeeping watchdog on CPU1:
      Marking clocksource 'tsc-early' as unstable because the skew is too large:
      clocksource:  'hpet' wd_now: 33 wd_last: 33 mask: ffffffff
    
    That clearly shows that the HPET is not counting after it got reconfigured
    and reenabled. If the counter is not working then the HPET timer is not
    expiring either, which explains the boot hang.
    
    Move the counter is counting check after the full configuration again to
    unbreak these systems.
    
    Reported-by: default avatarRui Salvaterra <rsalvaterra@gmail.com>
    Fixes: 3222daf9
    
     ("x86/hpet: Separate counter check out of clocksource register code")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Tested-by: default avatarRui Salvaterra <rsalvaterra@gmail.com>
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.21.1907250810530.1791@nanos.tec.linutronix.de
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