powerpc/time: Remove unnecessary sanity check of decrementer expiration
The clockevents code uses max_delta_ns to avoid calling a
clockevent with too large a value.
Remove the redundant version of this in the timer_interrupt
code.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c
index d204b72..2eaaa24 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c
@@ -572,7 +572,6 @@
struct pt_regs *old_regs;
struct decrementer_clock *decrementer = &__get_cpu_var(decrementers);
struct clock_event_device *evt = &decrementer->event;
- u64 now;
/* Ensure a positive value is written to the decrementer, or else
* some CPUs will continue to take decrementer exceptions.
@@ -607,16 +606,9 @@
get_lppaca()->int_dword.fields.decr_int = 0;
#endif
- now = get_tb_or_rtc();
- if (now >= decrementer->next_tb) {
- decrementer->next_tb = ~(u64)0;
- if (evt->event_handler)
- evt->event_handler(evt);
- } else {
- now = decrementer->next_tb - now;
- if (now <= DECREMENTER_MAX)
- set_dec((int)now);
- }
+ decrementer->next_tb = ~(u64)0;
+ if (evt->event_handler)
+ evt->event_handler(evt);
#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_ISERIES
if (firmware_has_feature(FW_FEATURE_ISERIES) && hvlpevent_is_pending())