x86/tsc: Mark TSC frequency determined by CPUID as known
authorBin Gao <bin.gao@linux.intel.com>
Tue, 15 Nov 2016 20:27:22 +0000 (12:27 -0800)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fri, 18 Nov 2016 09:58:30 +0000 (10:58 +0100)
commit4ca4df0b7eb06df264b2919759957f6d6ea1822e
treeb0a209d16b86caed81f2454d13839020ef65c25a
parent47c95a46d0fae07762f0a38aa3709ae63f307048
x86/tsc: Mark TSC frequency determined by CPUID as known

CPUs/SoCs with CPUID leaf 0x15 come with a known frequency and will report
the frequency to software via CPUID instruction. This hardware provided
frequency is the "real" frequency of TSC.

Set the X86_FEATURE_TSC_KNOWN_FREQ flag for such systems to skip the
software calibration process.

A 24 hours test on one of the CPUID 0x15 capable platforms was
conducted. PIT calibrated frequency resulted in more than 3 seconds drift
whereas the CPUID determined frequency showed less than 0.5 second
drift.

Signed-off-by: Bin Gao <bin.gao@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1479241644-234277-3-git-send-email-bin.gao@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c