[PATCH] RTC: Remove RTC UIP synchronization on PPC Maple

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/powerpc/platforms/maple/time.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/maple/time.c
index 5e6981d17379351ccf5bdf60f3b84bc7d843a8e1..b9a2b3d4bf3323d6a04bf7f91f6f158d01b10030 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/maple/time.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/maple/time.c
@@ -60,34 +60,14 @@ static void maple_clock_write(unsigned long val, int addr)
 
 void maple_get_rtc_time(struct rtc_time *tm)
 {
-       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 = maple_clock_read(RTC_FREQ_SELECT);
+       do {
                tm->tm_sec = maple_clock_read(RTC_SECONDS);
                tm->tm_min = maple_clock_read(RTC_MINUTES);
                tm->tm_hour = maple_clock_read(RTC_HOURS);
                tm->tm_mday = maple_clock_read(RTC_DAY_OF_MONTH);
                tm->tm_mon = maple_clock_read(RTC_MONTH);
                tm->tm_year = maple_clock_read(RTC_YEAR);
-               uip |= maple_clock_read(RTC_FREQ_SELECT);
-               if ((uip & RTC_UIP)==0)
-                       break;
-       }
+       } while (tm->tm_sec != maple_clock_read(RTC_SECONDS));
 
        if (!(maple_clock_read(RTC_CONTROL) & RTC_DM_BINARY)
            || RTC_ALWAYS_BCD) {