Re: ACPI on Averatec 2370

[Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>]

On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 06:15:37PM -0400, Cal Peake wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> > > MSR_K8_ENABLE_C1E lo == 0x04c14015
> > > MSR_K8_ENABLE_C1E hi == 0x00000000
> > > lo & ENABLE_C1E_MASK == 0
> > 
> > And yeah, that claims that C1E is not on, but:
> > 
> > > amd_apic_timer_broken: forcing return value of 1
> 
> So it seems my initial debugging report was, err, incomplete. I failed to 
> notice that the amd_apic_timer_broken function was getting called twice, 
> once for each core.
> 
> The second call shows this:
> 
>   MSR_K8_ENABLE_C1E == 0x14c14015

Ah interesting. Ok finally that all starts making sense.

Not sure why the MSR varies between cores though.

> which causes our ENABLE_C1E_MASK check to be true and thus properly 
> return 1 from the function. So when we call the above function from 
> init_amd we prolly need to do a
> 
>   set_bit(X86_FEATURE_LAPIC_TIMER_BROKEN, c->x86_capability);
> 
> for each core if any of them happen to return true upon checking for a 
> broken timer.

It's better to just make it a global instead.

-Andi