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    ACPI: Only use IPI on known broken machines (AMD, Dothan/BaniasPentium M) · 25496cae
    Thomas Renninger authored
    Use IPI for blacklisted CPUs, add parameter IPI vs LAPIC
    
    Currently, Linux disables lapic timer for all machines with C2 and higher
    C-state support.
    
    According to Intel only specific Intel models (Banias/Dothan) are broken
    in respect of not waking up from C2 with lapic.
    
    However, I am not sure about the naming of the parameter and how it
    could/should get integrated into the dyntick part
    (CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS). There, a more fine grained check (TSC
    still running?, ..) is needed? Does this make sense (always use
    CLOCK_EVT_NOTIFY_BROADCAST_ON, but use OFF if forced by use_ipi=0:
    clockevents_notify(use_ipi ? CLOCK_EVT_NOTIFY_BROADCAST_ON :
    CLOCK_EVT_NOTIFY_BROADCAST_OFF, &pr->id);
    Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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