[stable] [PATCH v2] msm: timer: compensate for timer shift in msm_read_timer_count

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Mon Jun 20 17:59:22 EDT 2011


On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 01:55:38PM -0700, Jeff Ohlstein wrote:
> Some msm targets have timers whose lower bits are unreliable. So, we
> present our timers as lower frequency than they actually are, and ignore
> the bottom 5 bits on such targets. This compensation was erroneously
> removed from the msm_read_timer_count function, so restore it.
> 
> This was broken by 94790ec25 "msm: timer: SMP timer support for msm".
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Ohlstein <johlstei at codeaurora.org>
> ---
>  arch/arm/mach-msm/timer.c |    6 +++++-
>  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 

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