Merge branch '3.11-fixes' into mips-for-linux-next

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/time.c b/arch/mips/kernel/time.c
index 9d686bf97b0e..364d26ae4215 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/time.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/time.c
@@ -121,6 +121,14 @@ void __init time_init(void)
 {
 	plat_time_init();
 
-	if (!mips_clockevent_init() || !cpu_has_mfc0_count_bug())
+	/*
+	 * The use of the R4k timer as a clock event takes precedence;
+	 * if reading the Count register might interfere with the timer
+	 * interrupt, then we don't use the timer as a clock source.
+	 * We may still use the timer as a clock source though if the
+	 * timer interrupt isn't reliable; the interference doesn't
+	 * matter then, because we don't use the interrupt.
+	 */
+	if (mips_clockevent_init() != 0 || !cpu_has_mfc0_count_bug())
 		init_mips_clocksource();
 }