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Commit 2420a0b1 authored by Daniel Drake's avatar Daniel Drake Committed by Ingo Molnar
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x86/tsc: Set LAPIC timer period to crystal clock frequency



The APIC timer calibration (calibrate_APIC_timer()) can be skipped
in cases where we know the APIC timer frequency. On Intel SoCs,
we believe that the APIC is fed by the crystal clock; this would make
sense, and the crystal clock frequency has been verified against the
APIC timer calibration result on ApolloLake, GeminiLake, Kabylake,
CoffeeLake, WhiskeyLake and AmberLake.

Set lapic_timer_period based on the crystal clock frequency
accordingly.

APIC timer calibration would normally be skipped on modern CPUs
by nature of the TSC deadline timer being used instead,
however this change is still potentially useful, e.g. if the
TSC deadline timer has been disabled with a kernel parameter.
calibrate_APIC_timer() uses the legacy timer, but we are seeing
new platforms that omit such legacy functionality, so avoiding
such codepaths is becoming more important.

Suggested-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Drake <drake@endlessm.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: len.brown@intel.com
Cc: linux@endlessm.com
Cc: rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190509055417.13152-3-drake@endlessm.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190419083533.32388-1-drake@endlessm.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.21.1904031206440.1967@nanos.tec.linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 52ae346b
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