[PATCH] x86: c1e_idle: don't mark TSC unstable if CPU hasinvariant TSC

[Andreas Herrmann]

.. otherwise TSC is marked unstable on AMD family 0x10 and 0x11 CPUs.
This would be wrong because for those CPUs "invariant TSC" means:

   "The TSC counts at the same rate in all P-states, all C states, S0,
   or S1"

(See "Processor BIOS and Kernel Developer's Guides" for those CPUs.)

Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@xxxxxxx>

---
 arch/x86/kernel/process.c |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

Please apply for 2.6.27.

Thanks,


Andreas


diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
index 7fc4d5b..ba6b16b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
@@ -265,7 +265,8 @@ static void c1e_idle(void)
 		rdmsr(MSR_K8_INT_PENDING_MSG, lo, hi);
 		if (lo & K8_INTP_C1E_ACTIVE_MASK) {
 			c1e_detected = 1;
-			mark_tsc_unstable("TSC halt in C1E");
+			if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_CONSTANT_TSC))
+				mark_tsc_unstable("TSC halt in C1E");
 			printk(KERN_INFO "System has C1E enabled\n");
 		}
 	}
-- 
1.6.0.1



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