Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 8 Aug 2007 02:06:31 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: ACPI on Averatec 2370 |
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On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 06:15:37PM -0400, Cal Peake wrote: > On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > MSR_K8_ENABLE_C1E lo == 0x04c14015 > > > MSR_K8_ENABLE_C1E hi == 0x00000000 > > > lo & ENABLE_C1E_MASK == 0 > > > > And yeah, that claims that C1E is not on, but: > > > > > amd_apic_timer_broken: forcing return value of 1 > > So it seems my initial debugging report was, err, incomplete. I failed to > notice that the amd_apic_timer_broken function was getting called twice, > once for each core. > > The second call shows this: > > MSR_K8_ENABLE_C1E == 0x14c14015
Ah interesting. Ok finally that all starts making sense.
Not sure why the MSR varies between cores though.
> which causes our ENABLE_C1E_MASK check to be true and thus properly > return 1 from the function. So when we call the above function from > init_amd we prolly need to do a > > set_bit(X86_FEATURE_LAPIC_TIMER_BROKEN, c->x86_capability); > > for each core if any of them happen to return true upon checking for a > broken timer.
It's better to just make it a global instead.
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