[PATCH] x86_64: Support constantly ticking TSCs

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>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.c
index a191d48317895947bdf30aca41f135a4e7dbf7f9..b06221e31952ac310109e14d6edaf77630d60708 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.c
@@ -855,6 +855,8 @@ static void __init init_intel(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
 
        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 *m, void *v)
                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 --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/time.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/time.c
index 3bafe438fa750025989983f6b2757e18d7776346..c7a1b50b4af34b5d919a82711f3354ed67137508 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/time.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/time.c
@@ -614,6 +614,9 @@ static int time_cpufreq_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned long val,
         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 notifier_block *nb, unsigned long val,
        lpj = &boot_cpu_data.loops_per_jiffy;
 #endif
 
-
-
        if (!ref_freq) {
                ref_freq = freq->old;
                loops_per_jiffy_ref = *lpj;

diff --git a/include/asm-x86_64/cpufeature.h b/include/asm-x86_64/cpufeature.h
index 0e47a6d53726e9850bfa7e8450ee9d4e129dab3c..e68ad97a6319d3576bf16d4456957b44a6be0a23 100644 (file)
--- a/include/asm-x86_64/cpufeature.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86_64/cpufeature.h
@@ -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 */