Messages in this thread | | | Date | 9 Jan 2006 17:41:40 +0100 | Date | Mon, 9 Jan 2006 17:41:40 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] HPET RTC emulation: add watchdog timer |
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On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 04:43:50PM +0100, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > To prevent the emulated RTC timer from stopping when interrupts are > disabled for too long, implement the watchdog timer to restart it when > needed.
The interrupt handler should just read the time (it likely has to do that anyways) and check for that directly. That is what I did in my noidletick HPET patch and it worked ok.
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