On 12-03-13 09:55 AM, Boris Ostrovsky wrote: > On 03/12/12 20:21, Paul Gortmaker wrote: >> From: Borislav Petkov<[email protected]> >> >> ------------------- >> This is a commit scheduled for the next v2.6.34 longterm release. >> If you see a problem with using this for longterm, please comment. > > > Paul, please use e9cdd343a5e42c43bcda01e609fa23089e026470 instead of the > one below.
Thanks, I'll make the exchange. P. > > -boris > >> ------------------- >> >> commit 14fb57dccb6e1defe9f89a66f548fcb24c374c1d upstream. >> >> Trying to enable the local APIC timer on early K8 revisions >> uncovers a number of other issues with it, in conjunction with >> the C1E enter path on AMD. Fixing those causes much more churn >> and troubles than the benefit of using that timer brings so >> don't enable it on K8 at all, falling back to the original >> functionality the kernel had wrt to that. >> >> Reported-and-bisected-by: Nick Bowler<[email protected]> >> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky<[email protected]> >> Cc: Andreas Herrmann<[email protected]> >> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman<[email protected]> >> Cc: Hans Rosenfeld<[email protected]> >> Cc: Nick Bowler<[email protected]> >> Cc: Joerg-Volker-Peetz<[email protected]> >> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov<[email protected]> >> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] >> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar<[email protected]> >> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker<[email protected]> >> --- >> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c | 2 +- >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) >> >> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c >> index d618dc1..76a7f76 100644 >> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c >> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c >> @@ -567,7 +567,7 @@ 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)) >> + if (c->x86> 0xf&& !cpu_has_amd_erratum(amd_erratum_400)) >> set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_ARAT); >> >> /* > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
