[PATCH] RTC: Remove RTC UIP synchronization on PPC CHRP (arch/ppc)

Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

diff --git a/arch/ppc/platforms/chrp_time.c b/arch/ppc/platforms/chrp_time.c
index c8627770af139a9a0beddd844c2e9802fe93c465..e103a36e11a55beae09ebf70bade7f1efda2d5cd 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/ppc/platforms/chrp_time.c
+++ b/arch/ppc/platforms/chrp_time.c
@@ -119,33 +119,15 @@ int chrp_set_rtc_time(unsigned long nowtime)
 unsigned long chrp_get_rtc_time(void)
 {
        unsigned int year, mon, day, hour, min, sec;
-       int uip, i;
 
-       /* The Linux interpretation of the CMOS clock register contents:
-        * When the Update-In-Progress (UIP) flag goes from 1 to 0, the
-        * RTC registers show the second which has precisely just started.
-        * Let's hope other operating systems interpret the RTC the same way.
-        */
-
-       /* Since the UIP flag is set for about 2.2 ms and the clock
-        * is typically written with a precision of 1 jiffy, trying
-        * to obtain a precision better than a few milliseconds is
-        * an illusion. Only consistency is interesting, this also
-        * allows to use the routine for /dev/rtc without a potential
-        * 1 second kernel busy loop triggered by any reader of /dev/rtc.
-        */
-
-       for ( i = 0; i<1000000; i++) {
-               uip = chrp_cmos_clock_read(RTC_FREQ_SELECT);
+       do {
                sec = chrp_cmos_clock_read(RTC_SECONDS);
                min = chrp_cmos_clock_read(RTC_MINUTES);
                hour = chrp_cmos_clock_read(RTC_HOURS);
                day = chrp_cmos_clock_read(RTC_DAY_OF_MONTH);
                mon = chrp_cmos_clock_read(RTC_MONTH);
                year = chrp_cmos_clock_read(RTC_YEAR);
-               uip |= chrp_cmos_clock_read(RTC_FREQ_SELECT);
-               if ((uip & RTC_UIP)==0) break;
-       }
+       } while (sec != chrp_cmos_clock_read(RTC_SECONDS));
 
        if (!(chrp_cmos_clock_read(RTC_CONTROL) & RTC_DM_BINARY) || RTC_ALWAYS_BCD)
          {