linux-kernel - [PATCH] x86: Don't use tsc_khz to calculate lpj if notsc is passed.

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Message-Id: <1225739927.8168.34.camel@alok-dev1>
Date:	Mon, 03 Nov 2008 11:18:47 -0800
From:	Alok Kataria <akataria@...are.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>
Cc:	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>, stable@...nel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] x86: Don't use tsc_khz to calculate lpj if notsc is passed.

x86: Don't use tsc_khz to calculate lpj if notsc is passed.

From: Alok N Kataria <akataria@...are.com>

With notsc passed on commandline, tsc may not be used for
udelays, make sure that we do not use tsc_khz to calculate
the lpj value in such cases.

Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@...are.com>
Cc: stable@...nel.org

---

 arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c |    8 ++++----
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)


diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
index ee01cd9..8904571 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
@@ -829,10 +829,6 @@ void __init tsc_init(void)
 		cpu_khz = calibrate_cpu();
 #endif
 
-	lpj = ((u64)tsc_khz * 1000);
-	do_div(lpj, HZ);
-	lpj_fine = lpj;
-
 	printk("Detected %lu.%03lu MHz processor.\n",
 			(unsigned long)cpu_khz / 1000,
 			(unsigned long)cpu_khz % 1000);
@@ -852,6 +848,10 @@ void __init tsc_init(void)
 	/* now allow native_sched_clock() to use rdtsc */
 	tsc_disabled = 0;
 
+	lpj = ((u64)tsc_khz * 1000);
+	do_div(lpj, HZ);
+	lpj_fine = lpj;
+	
 	use_tsc_delay();
 	/* Check and install the TSC clocksource */
 	dmi_check_system(bad_tsc_dmi_table);


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