linux-kernel - odd cpu_khz behavior (doubling)

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Date:	Wed, 13 Sep 2006 14:33:49 -0500
From:	Ryan Underwood <nemesis-lists@...quake.net>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: odd cpu_khz behavior (doubling)

OK, I realize cpu_khz should not be constant.  I wrote a cpufreq driver
for Toshiba laptops that has two CPU speeds (1/2 and full) and that is
managed via SMM.  Can anyone tell me why cpu_khz occasionally doubles
itself while the driver is in use?  It starts at ~120000, then doubles
to ~240000, then to ~480000, etc.  However, this is over ~15 loads and
unloads of the cpufreq target driver.  Small cpu_khz variations would
not bother anything wrt the cpufreq driver, but this is just plain
incorrect for things like /proc/cpuinfo which also use cpu_khz.

Is this a TSC issue (maybe related to SMM) or am I just doing something
in the wrong place in the driver?

Attached is the cpufreq part of the code, just a testing version.

-- 
Ryan Underwood, <nemesis@...quake.net>

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