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Thomas Gleixner d36b49b910 [PATCH] i386 rework local apic timer calibration
The local apic timer calibration has two problem cases:

1.  The calibration is based on readout of the PIT/HPET timer to detect the
   wrap of the periodic tick.  It happens that a box gets stuck in the
   calibration loop due to a PIT with a broken readout function.

2.  CoreDuo boxen show a sporadic PIT runs too slow defect, which results
   in a wrong lapic calibration.  The PIT goes back to normal operation once
   the lapic timer is switched to periodic mode.

Both are existing and unfixed problems in the current upstream kernel and
prevent certain laptops and other systems from booting Linux.

Rework the code to address both problems:

- Make the calibration interrupt driven.  This removes the wait_timer_tick
  magic hackery from lapic.c and time_hpet.c.  The clockevents framework
  allows easy substitution of the global tick event handler for the
  calibration.  This is more accurate than monitoring jiffies.  At this point
  of the boot process, nothing disturbes the interrupt delivery, so the
  results are very accurate.

- Verify the calibration against the PM timer, when available by using the
  early access function.  When the measured calibration period is outside of
  an one percent window, then the lapic timer calibration is adjusted to the
  pm timer result.

- Verify the calibration by running the lapic timer with the calibration
  handler.  Disable lapic timer in case of deviation.

This also removes the "synchronization" of the local apic timer to the global
tick.  This synchronization never worked, as there is no way to synchronize
PIT(HPET) and local APIC timer.  The synchronization by waiting for the tick
just alignes the local APIC timer for the first events, but later the events
drift away due to the different clocks.  Removing the "sync" is just
randomizing the asynchronous behaviour at setup time.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Rohit Seth <rohitseth@google.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-16 08:13:59 -08:00
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acpi [PATCH] ACPI keep track of timer broadcasting 2007-02-16 08:13:58 -08:00
asm-alpha [PATCH] consolidate line discipline number definitions 2007-02-11 10:51:26 -08:00
asm-arm [PATCH] S3C2410 GPIO wrappers 2007-02-12 09:48:34 -08:00
asm-arm26 [PATCH] fix sparse warnings from {asm,net}/checksum.h 2007-02-11 10:51:31 -08:00
asm-avr32 [PATCH] consolidate line discipline number definitions 2007-02-11 10:51:26 -08:00
asm-cris [PATCH] consolidate line discipline number definitions 2007-02-11 10:51:26 -08:00
asm-frv [PATCH] consolidate line discipline number definitions 2007-02-11 10:51:26 -08:00
asm-generic [PATCH] i386: paravirt CPU hypercall batching mode 2007-02-13 13:26:21 +01:00
asm-h8300 [PATCH] consolidate line discipline number definitions 2007-02-11 10:51:26 -08:00
asm-i386 [PATCH] i386 rework local apic timer calibration 2007-02-16 08:13:59 -08:00
asm-ia64 ATA convert GSI to irq on ia64 2007-02-15 18:04:53 -05:00
asm-m32r [PATCH] fix sparse warnings from {asm,net}/checksum.h 2007-02-11 10:51:31 -08:00
asm-m68k [PATCH] consolidate line discipline number definitions 2007-02-11 10:51:26 -08:00
asm-m68knommu [PATCH] m68knommu: removed include of system.h from bitops 2007-02-09 10:45:33 -08:00
asm-mips [MIPS] Fix sigset_t endianess swapping issues in 32-bit compat code. 2007-02-13 22:40:51 +00:00
asm-parisc [PATCH] consolidate line discipline number definitions 2007-02-11 10:51:26 -08:00
asm-powerpc [POWERPC] Use udbg_early_init() on ppc32 2007-02-14 11:55:16 +11:00
asm-ppc [POWERPC] ppc: Add support for AMCC Taishan 440GX eval board 2007-02-13 15:35:52 +11:00
asm-s390 [S390] remove __io_virt and mmiowb. 2007-02-12 15:49:57 +01:00
asm-sh sh: rts7751r2d board updates. 2007-02-15 18:20:52 +09:00
asm-sh64 [PATCH] consolidate line discipline number definitions 2007-02-11 10:51:26 -08:00
asm-sparc [PATCH] add missing io...._rep() on sparc32 2007-02-11 11:18:07 -08:00
asm-sparc64 [SPARC64]: Increase command line size to 2048 like other arches. 2007-02-12 15:15:47 -08:00
asm-um [PATCH] uml: x86_64 ptrace fixes 2007-02-11 10:51:24 -08:00
asm-v850 [PATCH] consolidate line discipline number definitions 2007-02-11 10:51:26 -08:00
asm-x86_64 [PATCH] x86: rewrite SMP TSC sync code 2007-02-16 08:13:57 -08:00
asm-xtensa [PATCH] consolidate line discipline number definitions 2007-02-11 10:51:26 -08:00
crypto [CRYPTO] api: Allow multiple frontends per backend 2007-02-07 09:21:01 +11:00
keys
linux [PATCH] tick-management: dyntick / highres functionality 2007-02-16 08:13:59 -08:00
math-emu
media V4L/DVB (5001): Add two required headers on kernel 2.6.20-rc1 2006-12-27 14:20:46 -02:00
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net [IPSEC]: changing API of xfrm6_tunnel_register 2007-02-13 12:55:55 -08:00
pcmcia Driver core: convert pcmcia code to use struct device 2007-02-07 10:37:11 -08:00
rdma IB: Make sure struct ib_user_mad.data is aligned 2007-02-04 14:11:56 -08:00
rxrpc
scsi Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6 2007-02-11 11:44:25 -08:00
sound [ALSA] version 1.0.14rc2 2007-02-14 08:42:20 +01:00
video [PATCH] Video: fb, add true ref_count atomicity 2007-02-12 09:48:42 -08:00
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