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Commit f9677e0f authored by Christopher S. Hall's avatar Christopher S. Hall Committed by John Stultz
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x86/tsc: Always Running Timer (ART) correlated clocksource



On modern Intel systems TSC is derived from the new Always Running Timer
(ART). ART can be captured simultaneous to the capture of
audio and network device clocks, allowing a correlation between timebases
to be constructed. Upon capture, the driver converts the captured ART
value to the appropriate system clock using the correlated clocksource
mechanism.

On systems that support ART a new CPUID leaf (0x15) returns parameters
“m” and “n” such that:

TSC_value = (ART_value * m) / n + k [n >= 1]

[k is an offset that can adjusted by a privileged agent. The
IA32_TSC_ADJUST MSR is an example of an interface to adjust k.
See 17.14.4 of the Intel SDM for more details]

Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: kevin.b.stanton@intel.com
Cc: kevin.j.clarke@intel.com
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Cc: jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristopher S. Hall <christopher.s.hall@intel.com>
[jstultz: Tweaked to fix build issue, also reworked math for
64bit division on 32bit systems, as well as !CONFIG_CPU_FREQ build
fixes]
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
parent 2c756feb
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