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[PATCH] x86_64: Calibrate APIC timer using PM timer
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On some broken motherboards (at least one NForce3 based AMD64 laptop)
the PIT timer runs at a incorrect frequency.  This patch adds a new
option "apicpmtimer" that allows to use the APIC timer and calibrate it
using the PMTimer.  It requires the earlier patch that allows to run the
main timer from the APIC.

Specifying apicpmtimer implies apicmaintimer.

The option defaults to off for now.

I tested it on a few systems and the resulting APIC timer frequencies
were usually a bit off, but always <1%, which should be tolerable.

TBD figure out heuristic to enable this automatically on the affected
systems TBD perhaps do it on all NForce3s or using DMI?

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Andi Kleen authored and Linus Torvalds committed Feb 5, 2006
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5 changes: 5 additions & 0 deletions Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt
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Expand Up @@ -47,6 +47,11 @@ APICs
noapicmaintimer Don't do time keeping using the APIC timer.
Useful when this option was auto selected, but doesn't work.

apicpmtimer
Do APIC timer calibration using the pmtimer. Implies
apicmaintimer. Useful when your PIT timer is totally
broken.

Early Console

syntax: earlyprintk=vga
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33 changes: 27 additions & 6 deletions arch/x86_64/kernel/apic.c
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int apic_verbosity;
int apic_runs_main_timer;
int apic_calibrate_pmtmr __initdata;

int disable_apic_timer __initdata;

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__setup_APIC_LVTT(1000000000);

apic_start = apic_read(APIC_TMCCT);
rdtscl(tsc_start);

do {
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_PM_TIMER
if (apic_calibrate_pmtmr && pmtmr_ioport) {
pmtimer_wait(5000); /* 5ms wait */
apic = apic_read(APIC_TMCCT);
rdtscl(tsc);
} while ((tsc - tsc_start) < TICK_COUNT && (apic - apic_start) < TICK_COUNT);
result = (apic_start - apic) * 1000L / 5;
} else
#endif
{
rdtscl(tsc_start);

do {
apic = apic_read(APIC_TMCCT);
rdtscl(tsc);
} while ((tsc - tsc_start) < TICK_COUNT &&
(apic - apic_start) < TICK_COUNT);

result = (apic_start - apic) * 1000L * cpu_khz /
(tsc - tsc_start);
}
printk("result %d\n", result);

result = (apic_start - apic) * 1000L * cpu_khz / (tsc - tsc_start);

printk(KERN_INFO "Detected %d.%03d MHz APIC timer.\n",
result / 1000 / 1000, result / 1000 % 1000);
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}
__setup("noapicmaintimer", setup_noapicmaintimer);

static __init int setup_apicpmtimer(char *s)
{
apic_calibrate_pmtmr = 1;
return setup_apicmaintimer(NULL);
}
__setup("apicpmtimer", setup_apicpmtimer);

/* dummy parsing: see setup.c */

__setup("disableapic", setup_disableapic);
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20 changes: 20 additions & 0 deletions arch/x86_64/kernel/pmtimer.c
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Expand Up @@ -80,6 +80,26 @@ int pmtimer_mark_offset(void)
return lost - 1;
}

static unsigned pmtimer_wait_tick(void)
{
u32 a, b;
for (a = b = inl(pmtmr_ioport) & ACPI_PM_MASK;
a == b;
b = inl(pmtmr_ioport) & ACPI_PM_MASK)
;
return b;
}

/* note: wait time is rounded up to one tick */
void pmtimer_wait(unsigned us)
{
u32 a, b;
a = pmtimer_wait_tick();
do {
b = inl(pmtmr_ioport);
} while (cyc2us(b - a) < us);
}

void pmtimer_resume(void)
{
last_pmtmr_tick = inl(pmtmr_ioport);
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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions include/asm-x86_64/proto.h
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Expand Up @@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ extern void iommu_hole_init(void);
extern void time_init_gtod(void);
extern int pmtimer_mark_offset(void);
extern void pmtimer_resume(void);
extern void pmtimer_wait(unsigned);
extern unsigned int do_gettimeoffset_pm(void);
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_PM_TIMER
extern u32 pmtmr_ioport;
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