Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Subject | [patch 085/198] x86_64: Support constantly ticking TSCs | From | akpm@osdl ... | Date | Tue, 12 Apr 2005 03:31:53 -0700 |
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From: "Andi Kleen" <ak@suse.de>
On Intel Noconas the TSC ticks with a constant frequency. Don't scale the factor used by udelay when cpufreq changes the frequency.
This generalizes an earlier patch by Intel for this.
Cc: <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> ---
25-akpm/arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.c | 5 ++++- 25-akpm/arch/x86_64/kernel/time.c | 5 +++-- 25-akpm/include/asm-x86_64/cpufeature.h | 1 + 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff -puN arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.c~x86_64-support-constantly-ticking-tscs arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.c --- 25/arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.c~x86_64-support-constantly-ticking-tscs 2005-04-12 03:21:23.473568376 -0700 +++ 25-akpm/arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.c 2005-04-12 03:21:23.479567464 -0700 @@ -855,6 +855,8 @@ static void __init init_intel(struct cpu if (c->x86 == 15) c->x86_cache_alignment = c->x86_clflush_size * 2; + if (c->x86 >= 15) + set_bit(X86_FEATURE_CONSTANT_TSC, &c->x86_capability); } void __init get_cpu_vendor(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) @@ -1055,7 +1057,8 @@ static int show_cpuinfo(struct seq_file NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, /* Other (Linux-defined) */ - "cxmmx", "k6_mtrr", "cyrix_arr", "centaur_mcr", NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, + "cxmmx", NULL, "cyrix_arr", "centaur_mcr", "k8c+", + "constant_tsc", NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, diff -puN arch/x86_64/kernel/time.c~x86_64-support-constantly-ticking-tscs arch/x86_64/kernel/time.c --- 25/arch/x86_64/kernel/time.c~x86_64-support-constantly-ticking-tscs 2005-04-12 03:21:23.474568224 -0700 +++ 25-akpm/arch/x86_64/kernel/time.c 2005-04-12 03:21:23.480567312 -0700 @@ -614,6 +614,9 @@ static int time_cpufreq_notifier(struct struct cpufreq_freqs *freq = data; unsigned long *lpj, dummy; + if (cpu_has(&cpu_data[freq->cpu], X86_FEATURE_CONSTANT_TSC)) + return 0; + lpj = &dummy; if (!(freq->flags & CPUFREQ_CONST_LOOPS)) #ifdef CONFIG_SMP @@ -622,8 +625,6 @@ static int time_cpufreq_notifier(struct lpj = &boot_cpu_data.loops_per_jiffy; #endif - - if (!ref_freq) { ref_freq = freq->old; loops_per_jiffy_ref = *lpj; diff -puN include/asm-x86_64/cpufeature.h~x86_64-support-constantly-ticking-tscs include/asm-x86_64/cpufeature.h --- 25/include/asm-x86_64/cpufeature.h~x86_64-support-constantly-ticking-tscs 2005-04-12 03:21:23.475568072 -0700 +++ 25-akpm/include/asm-x86_64/cpufeature.h 2005-04-12 03:21:23.481567160 -0700 @@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ #define X86_FEATURE_CYRIX_ARR (3*32+ 2) /* Cyrix ARRs (= MTRRs) */ #define X86_FEATURE_CENTAUR_MCR (3*32+ 3) /* Centaur MCRs (= MTRRs) */ #define X86_FEATURE_K8_C (3*32+ 4) /* C stepping K8 */ +#define X86_FEATURE_CONSTANT_TSC (3*32+5) /* TSC runs at constant rate */ /* Intel-defined CPU features, CPUID level 0x00000001 (ecx), word 4 */ #define X86_FEATURE_XMM3 (4*32+ 0) /* Streaming SIMD Extensions-3 */ _ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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