On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: > Can you please test if this patch works?
Yep, seems to do the trick. Thanks! > BTW I checked with AMD and they seem to think it's just a buggy BIOS. Nod. Atleast we can work around it. > Use global flag to disable broken local apic timer on AMD CPUs. > > The Averatec 2370 laptop BIOS seems to program the ENABLE_C1E s~2370~2370/2371~ to be completely accurate ;) > MSR inconsistently between cores. This confuses the lapic > use heuristics wants to know if C1E is enabled anywhere. > > 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. > Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Cal Peake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Cal Peake - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
