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hwmon: fam15h_power: fix bogus values with current BIOSes
authorAndre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>
Mon, 9 Apr 2012 22:16:34 +0000 (18:16 -0400)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 7 May 2012 15:56:33 +0000 (08:56 -0700)
commit7d841e23feb06283577bd593ecd18113829a837c
tree43bdcaad68ed69f404bd2f4a004fe5032e45481c
parent17a766decb63b6fe4c43c06069b92b4958d7a642
hwmon: fam15h_power: fix bogus values with current BIOSes

commit 00250ec90963b7ef6678438888f3244985ecde14 upstream.

Newer BKDG[1] versions recommend a different initialization value for
the running average range register in the northbridge. This improves
the power reading by avoiding counter saturations resulting in bogus
values for anything below about 80% of TDP power consumption.
Updated BIOSes will have this new value set up from the beginning,
but meanwhile we correct this value ourselves.
This needs to be done on all northbridges, even on those where the
driver itself does not register at.

This fixes the driver on all current machines to provide proper
values for idle load.

[1]
http://support.amd.com/us/Processor_TechDocs/42301_15h_Mod_00h-0Fh_BKDG.pdf
Chapter 3.8: D18F5xE0 Processor TDP Running Average (p. 452)

Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>
Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
[guenter.roeck@ericsson.com: Removed unnecessary return statement]
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/hwmon/fam15h_power.c