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i386: Use global flag to disable broken local apic timer on AMD CPUs.
authorAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Fri, 10 Aug 2007 20:31:07 +0000 (22:31 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:50:17 +0000 (10:50 -0700)
commitb44da25c30867fa71f2cec3334ecfa1e9412dab4
tree5e954b63b6badef8d2cf3a317f3e9edf57e0462c
parent880da58fc49a4e021d49b4aeae3b2c6b51e211fa
i386: Use global flag to disable broken local apic timer on AMD CPUs.

commit d3f7eae182b04997be19343a23f7009170f4f7a5 upstream

The Averatec 2370 and some other Turion laptop BIOS seems to program the
ENABLE_C1E MSR inconsistently between cores. This confuses the lapic
use heuristics because when C1E is enabled anywhere it seems to affect
the complete chip.

Use a global flag instead of a per cpu flag to handle this.
If any CPU has C1E enabled disabled lapic use.

Thanks to Cal Peake for debugging.

Cc: tglx@linutronix.de
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
arch/i386/kernel/apic.c
arch/i386/kernel/cpu/amd.c
include/asm-i386/apic.h
include/asm-i386/cpufeature.h