linux-kernel - [PATCH] i386: Fix bogus return value in hpet_next

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Date:	Tue, 27 Mar 2007 09:08:26 +0200
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Subject: [PATCH] i386: Fix bogus return value in hpet_next_event()

The clockevents / tick management code expects an error value, when the
event is already expired. hpet_next_event() returns 1 in that case.

Fix it to return the proper -ETIME error code.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>

diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/hpet.c b/arch/i386/kernel/hpet.c
index f3ab61e..76afea6 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/hpet.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/hpet.c
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ static int hpet_next_event(unsigned long delta,
 	cnt += delta;
 	hpet_writel(cnt, HPET_T0_CMP);
 
-	return ((long)(hpet_readl(HPET_COUNTER) - cnt ) > 0);
+	return ((long)(hpet_readl(HPET_COUNTER) - cnt ) > 0) ? -ETIME : 0;
 }
 
 /*


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