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x86, AMD: Set ARAT feature on AMD processors
authorBoris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@amd.com>
Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:13:44 +0000 (12:13 -0400)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:50:00 +0000 (08:50 -0700)
commit747e6c273ba60048de77189553efdc3caa9b1b06
tree4684d89a3744fcdef98448b84c05664a3042e190
parent165ed2c6017e420a5b640b918162b7729c5ef3ab
x86, AMD: Set ARAT feature on AMD processors

commit b87cf80af3ba4b4c008b4face3c68d604e1715c6 upstream.

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 <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Acked-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Acked-by: Mark Langsdorf <mark.langsdorf@amd.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <1300205624-4813-1-git-send-email-ostr@amd64.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c