From b87cf80af3ba4b4c008b4face3c68d604e1715c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Boris Ostrovsky Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 12:13:44 -0400 Subject: x86, AMD: Set ARAT feature on AMD processors Support for Always Running APIC timer (ARAT) was introduced in commit db954b5898dd3ef3ef93f4144158ea8f97deb058. This feature allows us to avoid switching timers from LAPIC to something else (e.g. HPET) and go into timer broadcasts when entering deep C-states. AMD processors don't provide a CPUID bit for that feature but they also keep APIC timers running in deep C-states (except for cases when the processor is affected by erratum 400). Therefore we should set ARAT feature bit on AMD CPUs. Tested-by: Borislav Petkov Acked-by: Andreas Herrmann Acked-by: Mark Langsdorf Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky LKML-Reference: <1300205624-4813-1-git-send-email-ostr@amd64.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'arch/x86') diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c index 7c7bedb83c5a..48eaa1b6fc46 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c @@ -594,6 +594,10 @@ static void __cpuinit init_amd(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) } } #endif + + /* As a rule processors have APIC timer running in deep C states */ + if (c->x86 >= 0xf && !cpu_has_amd_erratum(amd_erratum_400)) + set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_ARAT); } #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32 -- cgit v1.2.3