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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)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Fri, 11 May 2012 12:14:36 +0000 (13:14 +0100)
commit8198e9bfd86f983380946965d825972fe432cc0c
treed9fd8bbd0a9a8dae3582f2b7fd4988aeb4e8c48f
parentcce53871300df0290a1b4d1708f385c323d02c77
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: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
drivers/hwmon/fam15h_power.c