HPET interrupt missed

[sashah]

Hi,

I have developed a simple HPET driver that supports both level- and edge-triggered interrupt modes.

I have tested periodicinterrupton three computers:

E8300 + P35 + ICH9

E4500 + 82801(?) + ICH7

Laptop Pentium M

Level-triggered interrupt works fine on all computers. Edge-triggered interrupt work fine on E8300 only. Other computers miss interrupts frequently. Pentium M often misses 1 and rarely 2 interrupts; E4500 often misses 20-30 interrupts in a series, and sometimes up to 50!

Simple ideas, like other process disabling interrupts, were already checked and rejected.

Do I miss something?Are there known chipset issues?

Here is skeleton of my driver:

__declspec

(naked) void HpetHandler( void )

{

Save Registers;

Collect Statistics;

if (Level_Trigger) *InterruptStatusRegister= INTERRUPT_TIMER1;

*EOI= 0;

Restore Registers;

IRET;

}

[Intel_Software_Netw1]

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