linux/arch
Andi Kleen 0c3749c41f [PATCH] x86_64: Calibrate APIC timer using PM timer
On some broken motherboards (at least one NForce3 based AMD64 laptop)
the PIT timer runs at a incorrect frequency.  This patch adds a new
option "apicpmtimer" that allows to use the APIC timer and calibrate it
using the PMTimer.  It requires the earlier patch that allows to run the
main timer from the APIC.

Specifying apicpmtimer implies apicmaintimer.

The option defaults to off for now.

I tested it on a few systems and the resulting APIC timer frequencies
were usually a bit off, but always <1%, which should be tolerable.

TBD figure out heuristic to enable this automatically on the affected
systems TBD perhaps do it on all NForce3s or using DMI?

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-04 16:43:15 -08:00
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alpha [PATCH] alpha show_interrups() trashes argument 2006-02-01 08:53:21 -08:00
arm [ARM] Remove ARCH_CAMELOT from at91 defconfigs 2006-02-03 23:03:21 +00:00
arm26 [PATCH] arm26: select BLK_DEV_FD only on A5K 2006-02-01 08:53:22 -08:00
cris [PATCH] cris: task_thread_info() 2006-01-12 09:08:58 -08:00
frv [PATCH] Handle TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK for FRV 2006-01-18 19:20:29 -08:00
h8300 [PATCH] h8300: task_stack_page() 2006-01-12 09:08:55 -08:00
i386 [PATCH] OProfile: fixed x86_64 incorrect kernel call graphs 2006-02-03 08:32:04 -08:00
ia64 [PATCH] Export cpu topology in sysfs 2006-02-03 08:32:09 -08:00
m32r [PATCH] m32r: task_pt_regs(), task_stack_page(), task_thread_info() 2006-01-12 09:08:54 -08:00
m68k [PATCH] m68k: console code in head.S needs framebuffer support built in 2006-01-12 09:09:06 -08:00
m68knommu [PATCH] m68knommu: task_stack_page() 2006-01-12 09:08:55 -08:00
mips [PATCH] mips: gdb-stub.c: fix parse error before ; token 2006-02-01 08:53:12 -08:00
parisc [PARISC] New syscalls (inotify, *at, pselect6/ppoll, migrate_pages) 2006-01-30 00:53:14 -05:00
powerpc [PATCH] PowerPC/PCI Hotplug build break 2006-02-01 16:35:29 -08:00
ppc [PATCH] mv643xx_eth: Fix for building as a module 2006-01-27 11:09:24 -05:00
s390 [PATCH] s390: fix compat syscall wrapper 2006-02-03 08:32:01 -08:00
sh [PATCH] sh: machine_halt()/machine_power_off() cleanups 2006-02-01 08:53:20 -08:00
sh64 [PATCH] arch/sh64/kernel/time.c: add module.h 2006-02-01 08:53:20 -08:00
sparc [SPARC]: Fix compile failures in math-emu. 2006-01-30 16:46:24 -08:00
sparc64 [SPARC64]: Kill compat_sys_clock_settime sign extension stub. 2006-01-30 01:31:09 -08:00
um [PATCH] uml: avoid "CONFIG_NR_CPUS undeclared" bogus error messages 2006-02-01 08:53:23 -08:00
v850 [PATCH] Fix some ucLinux breakage from the tty updates 2006-02-03 08:32:04 -08:00
x86_64 [PATCH] x86_64: Calibrate APIC timer using PM timer 2006-02-04 16:43:15 -08:00
xtensa [PATCH] Fix some ucLinux breakage from the tty updates 2006-02-03 08:32:04 -08:00