x86/tsc: Set LAPIC timer period to crystal clock frequency
The APIC timer calibration (calibrate_APIC_timer()) can be skipped in cases where we know the APIC timer frequency. On Intel SoCs, we believe that the APIC is fed by the crystal clock; this would make sense, and the crystal clock frequency has been verified against the APIC timer calibration result on ApolloLake, GeminiLake, Kabylake, CoffeeLake, WhiskeyLake and AmberLake. Set lapic_timer_period based on the crystal clock frequency accordingly. APIC timer calibration would normally be skipped on modern CPUs by nature of the TSC deadline timer being used instead, however this change is still potentially useful, e.g. if the TSC deadline timer has been disabled with a kernel parameter. calibrate_APIC_timer() uses the legacy timer, but we are seeing new platforms that omit such legacy functionality, so avoiding such codepaths is becoming more important. Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <drake@endlessm.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: len.brown@intel.com Cc: linux@endlessm.com Cc: rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190509055417.13152-3-drake@endlessm.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190419083533.32388-1-drake@endlessm.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.21.1904031206440.1967@nanos.tec.linutronix.deSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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