Re: [RESEND] Fast TSC calibration fails with v3.14-rc1 and later

From: joeyli
Date: Wed Mar 12 2014 - 10:03:03 EST


æ äï2014-03-12 æ 12:20 +0100ïRafael J. Wysocki æåï
> On Wednesday, March 12, 2014 12:00:07 PM joeyli wrote:
> > Hi Julian,
[...]
> >
> >
> > >From 8ef4fff76dd2f50bef1e8eb9c96f3b0228a38401 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@xxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 11:36:32 +0800
> > Subject: [PATCH] ACPI / init: Run acpi_early_init() before timekeeping_init() when CMOS RTC Not Present bit set
> >
> > This is a variant patch from Rafael J. Wysocki's
> > ACPI / init: Run acpi_early_init() before efi_enter_virtual_mode()
> >
> > According to Matt Fleming, if acpi_early_init() was executed before
> > efi_enter_virtual_mode(), the EFI initialization could benefit from
> > it, so Rafael's patch makes that happen.
> >
> > And, later we want accessing ACPI TAD device to set system clock, so
> > move acpi_early_init() before timekeeping_init() when "CMOS RTC Not
> > Present" bit set. This position is also before efi_enter_virtual_mode().
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@xxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > init/main.c | 7 ++++++-
> > 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
> > index eb03090..e1b69d2 100644
> > --- a/init/main.c
> > +++ b/init/main.c
> > @@ -561,7 +561,9 @@ asmlinkage void __init start_kernel(void)
> > init_timers();
> > hrtimers_init();
> > softirq_init();
> > - acpi_early_init();
> > + if (acpi_gbl_FADT.header.revision >= 5 &&
> > + acpi_gbl_FADT.boot_flags & ACPI_FADT_NO_CMOS_RTC)
> > + acpi_early_init();
>
> Sorry, this is not the right way to address that.
>
> First of all, checking fields in acpi_gbl_FADT from anything in init/main.c
> is wrong. If anything, please move that check to acpi_early_init(). And
> make it check it if it's been called already.
>

I see, thanks for your suggestion.

> > timekeeping_init();
> > time_init();
> > sched_clock_postinit();
> > @@ -613,6 +615,9 @@ asmlinkage void __init start_kernel(void)
> > calibrate_delay();
> > pidmap_init();
> > anon_vma_init();
> > + if (!(acpi_gbl_FADT.header.revision >= 5 &&
> > + acpi_gbl_FADT.boot_flags & ACPI_FADT_NO_CMOS_RTC))
> > + acpi_early_init();
>
> And then you can call it here again.
>
> > #ifdef CONFIG_X86
> > if (efi_enabled(EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES))
> > efi_enter_virtual_mode();
> >
>
> But I wonder: Can we simply enable SCI later? In other words, can we
> split acpi_early_init() so that the part before acpi_enable_subsystem()
> is done before timekeeping_init() and the part including and after
> is done right after anon_vma_init()? Would the TAD initialization work
> then?
>

The machine that support ACPI TAD doesn't on my hand now, I need find a
time go to check it. Per DSDT, it trigger SMI in _GRT and _SRT to
get/set time. Looks no SCI involve.


Thanks a lot!
Joey Lee


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