Tyan S3992-E: hpet no longer working
Arno J. Klaassen
arno at heho.snv.jussieu.fr
Mon Jan 10 21:32:15 UTC 2011
John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> writes:
> On Monday, January 10, 2011 3:11:16 pm Alexander Motin wrote:
>> John Baldwin wrote:
>> > On Saturday, January 08, 2011 11:46:02 am Alexander Motin wrote:
>> >> Arno J. Klaassen wrote:
>> >>> John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> writes:
>> >>>
>> >>>> On Thursday, January 06, 2011 5:32:08 pm Arno J. Klaassen wrote:
>> >>>>> John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> writes:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>> On Wednesday, January 05, 2011 4:39:24 pm Arno J. Klaassen wrote:
>> >>>>>>> Hello,
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> I have (a long-lasting) problem to get hpet attached to a Tyan S3992-E
>> >>>>>>> MB. My last known working kernel is 7.1-PRERELEASE Sep 2 2008" , I
>> >>>>>>> rarely cared about this board for a while...
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> At that time the dmesg said :
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> acpi_hpet0: <High Precision Event Timer> iomem 0xfed00000-0xfed003ff
>> >>>>>>> on acpi0
>> >>>>>>> Timecounter "HPET" frequency 25000000 Hz quality 900
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> now it says (debug.acpi.hpet_test="1", debug.acpi.layer="ACPI_TIMER",
>> >>>>>>> debug.acpi.level="ACPI_LV_ALL_EXCEPTIONS" enabled) :
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> hpet0: <High Precision Event Timer> iomem 0xfed00000-0xfed03fff on
>> >>>>>>> acpi0
>> >>>>>>> hpet0: vendor 0xffff, rev 0xff, 232831Hz 64bit, 32 timers, legacy route
>> >>>>>>> hpet0: t0: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>> >>>>>>> hpet0: t1: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>> >>>>>>> hpet0: t2: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>> >>>>>>> hpet0: t3: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>> >>>>>>> hpet0: t4: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>> >>>>>>> hpet0: t5: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>> >>>>>>> hpet0: t6: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>> >>>>>>> hpet0: t7: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>> >>>>>>> hpet0: t8: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>> >>>>>>> hpet0: t9: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>> >>>>>>> hpet0: t10: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>> >>>>>>> hpet0: t11: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>> >>>>>>> hpet0: t12: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>> >>>>>>> hpet0: t13: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>> >>>>>>> hpet0: t14: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>> >>>>>>> hpet0: t15: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>> >>>>>>> hpet0: t16: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>> >>>>>>> hpet0: t17: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>> >>>>>>> hpet0: t18: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>> >>>>>>> hpet0: t19: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>> >>>>>>> hpet0: t20: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>> >>>>>>> hpet0: t21: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>> >>>>>>> hpet0: t22: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>> >>>>>>> hpet0: t23: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>> >>>>>>> hpet0: t24: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>> >>>>>>> hpet0: t25: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>> >>>>>>> hpet0: t26: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>> >>>>>>> hpet0: t27: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>> >>>>>>> hpet0: t28: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>> >>>>>>> hpet0: t29: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>> >>>>>>> hpet0: t30: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>> >>>>>>> hpet0: t31: irqs 0xffffffff (31), MSI, 64bit, periodic
>> >>>>>>> hpet0: 0.000000000: 4294967295 ... 4294967295 = 0
>> >>>>>>> hpet0: time per call: 0 ns
>> >>>>>>> hpet0: HPET never increments, disabling
>> >>>>>>> device_attach: hpet0 attach returned 6
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> Some things strike me :
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> 'vendor 0xffff, rev 0xf' and '4294967295 (== 0xffffffff)' as well
>> >>>>>>> as 232831Hz
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> the change in iomem range :
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> OK : iomem 0xfed00000-0xfed003ff
>> >>>>>>> KO : iomem 0xfed00000-0xfed03fff
>> >>>>>>> ^^^^
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> I can provide full dmesg and/or other extra needed info.
>> >>>>>> Arno sent me his acpidump which includes this:
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> Device (HPET)
>> >>>>>> {
>> >>>>>> Name (_HID, EisaId ("PNP0103"))
>> >>>>>> Name (_UID, 0x34)
>> >>>>>> Method (_STA, 0, NotSerialized)
>> >>>>>> {
>> >>>>>> Return (0x0F)
>> >>>>>> }
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> Method (_CRS, 0, NotSerialized)
>> >>>>>> {
>> >>>>>> Return (ResourceTemplate ()
>> >>>>>> {
>> >>>>>> Memory32Fixed (ReadWrite,
>> >>>>>> 0xFED00000, // Address Base
>> >>>>>> 0x00004000, // Address Length
>> >>>>>> )
>> >>>>>> })
>> >>>>>> }
>> >>>>>> }
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> So it does look like we are doing what the DSDT tells us in terms
>> >>>>>> of the memory address.
>> >>>>> yop. That said, I made yet another copy-paste error: the last known
>> >>>>> working kernel is 8.0-CURRENT Mar 1 2009 and the hpet says :
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> acpi_hpet0: <High Precision Event Timer> iomem 0xfed00000-0xfed003ff
>> >>>>> on acpi0
>> >>>>> Timecounter "HPET" frequency 14318180 Hz quality 900
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> [only the frequency differs, the memory range indeed then was reported as
>> >>>>> 0x400 and not 0x4000 ]
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>> Arno, are there any BIOS options that mention the HPET or have you updated
>> >>>>>> your BIOS since you booted the 7.1 kernel?
>> >>>>> yes .. I now use BIOS 1.06 released 06/09/09.
>> >>>>> Can I somehow 'overide' the bios and force the driver to use 0X400 as
>> >>>>> 'Address Length' in order to test if that makes the driver attach again?
>> >>>> Changing the length wouldn't make a difference as we would still read the same
>> >>>> registers since the start address is identical. I think the length is
>> >>>> symptomatic of the BIOS doing something differently that has disabled the
>> >>>> HPET.
>> >>> good point : this failure probably is not related to the FreeBSD-driver
>> >>> : in the current BIOS under the submenu 'South Bridge Chipset
>> >>> Configuration', the option to enable the HPET has disappeared (no
>> >>> mention of that in the release-notes), whilst it was present in the
>> >>> original BIOS, *and* disabled by default.
>> >>>
>> >>> Is it possible to write to some register during hpet_enable() and force
>> >>> the timer to tick, regardless of the BIOS?
>> >> Problem seems not about ticking, but about HPET registers working at
>> >> all. Returning ffh values for everything more probably tells that HPET
>> >> is just not in place where we look for it.
>> >
>> > Or that the BIOS has disabled it. Maybe it is buggy on this motherboard and
>> > newer BIOS revisions always disable it as a result?
>>
>> May be, but then it would be reasonable for BIOS to not report it's
>> presence instead of disabling.
>
> I'm a bit too cynical to depend on BIOS writers being reasonable. :)
Sure .. that said, the BIOS I use is the last official release for this
board (Sept 2009) and not even a more recent beta-release is available.
I would expect reporting a disabled device which cannot be enabled via
de BIOS a bug deserving a newer release.
Anyway, this bug isn't very harmful for me, but the non-hpet
timecounters don't seem that fun either :
# uptime
10:27PM up 2 days, 5:44
# sysctl kern.timecounter.hardware kern.timecounter.choice
kern.timecounter.hardware: ACPI-safe
kern.timecounter.choice: TSC(-100) i8254(0) ACPI-safe(850) dummy(-1000000)
# vmstat -i | fgrep cpu:
cpu0:timer 38599321 199
cpu6:timer 2151003 11
cpu1:timer 7121075 36
cpu3:timer 1808269 9
cpu5:timer 3832463 19
cpu2:timer 2399988 12
cpu7:timer 2013444 10
cpu4:timer 21630368 111
(default HZ ....)
Maybe I should try downgrading the BIOS?
Best, Arno
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