linux-stable/arch
Thomas Gleixner 6b3964cde7 [PATCH] i386: clockevents fix breakage on Geode/Cyrix PIT implementations
The PIT has no dedicated mode for shut down. The only way to disable PIT
is to put it into one shot mode. AMD implementations of PIT on Geode
(also observed on Cyrix) are confused by an "empty" transition from
CLOCK_EVT_MODE_UNUSED to CLOCK_EVT_MODE_SHUTDOWN, which puts the PIT
into one shot mode momentarily.

I realized after staring helpless at the bug report
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8027 for quite a while, that
the only change, which might influence the bogomips calibration, is the
above transition during the PIT initialization.

Avoiding the unnecessary switch to oneshot and later to periodic mode
fixes the weird bogomips value and also the resulting slowness.

The fix is confirmed on OLPC and another Geode based box.

Note: this is unrelated to the Dual Core problem discussed here:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/17/48

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-22 19:33:30 -07:00
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alpha [PATCH] Dynamic kernel command-line: alpha 2007-02-12 09:48:37 -08:00
arm Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm 2007-03-19 20:05:16 -07:00
arm26 [PATCH] arch/arm26/kernel/entry.S: remove dead code 2007-03-01 14:53:35 -08:00
avr32 [PATCH] gpio_direction_output() needs an initial value 2007-03-16 19:25:04 -07:00
cris [PATCH] fix memory leak in dma_declare_coherent_memory() 2007-03-01 14:53:39 -08:00
frv [PATCH] FRV: No ZONE_DMA 2007-03-01 14:53:36 -08:00
h8300 [PATCH] Declare init_irq_proc before we use it. 2007-02-19 14:21:50 -08:00
i386 [PATCH] i386: clockevents fix breakage on Geode/Cyrix PIT implementations 2007-03-22 19:33:30 -07:00
ia64 [IA64] Fix wrong /proc/iomem on SGI Altix 2007-03-20 13:54:44 -07:00
m32r Various typo fixes. 2007-02-17 19:07:33 +01:00
m68k [PATCH] Declare init_irq_proc before we use it. 2007-02-19 14:21:50 -08:00
m68knommu [PATCH] m68knommu: remove local_bh_count 2007-03-06 18:08:38 -08:00
mips [MIPS] Export except_vec_vi_{mori,lui,ori} as text symbols. 2007-03-19 20:22:44 +00:00
parisc [PARISC] clocksource: Move update_cr16_clocksource later in boot 2007-02-26 22:21:22 -05:00
powerpc [PATCH] pasemi trivial iomem annotations 2007-03-14 15:27:50 -07:00
ppc mv643xx_eth: Place explicit port number in mv643xx_eth_platform_data 2007-03-06 06:14:54 -05:00
s390 [S390] Wire up sys_utimes. 2007-03-19 13:19:07 +01:00
sh sh: Fix bogus regs pointer in do_IRQ(). 2007-03-14 13:03:35 +09:00
sh64 [PATCH] sysctl: remove insert_at_head from register_sysctl 2007-02-14 08:09:59 -08:00
sparc [PATCH] sparc: nr_free_pages() is unsigned long 2007-03-14 15:27:50 -07:00
sparc64 [SPARC64]: store-init needs trailing membar. 2007-03-19 13:27:33 -07:00
um [PATCH] stacktrace doesn't work on uml 2007-03-14 15:27:49 -07:00
v850 kbuild: Replace remaining "depends" with "depends on" 2007-02-17 19:05:24 +01:00
x86_64 [PATCH] Fix atomicity of TIF update in flush_thread() for x86_64 2007-03-18 11:35:08 -07:00
xtensa [PATCH] Dynamic kernel command-line: xtensa 2007-02-12 09:48:39 -08:00