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authorAndres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>2007-10-12 23:04:06 +0200
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@inhelltoy.tec.linutronix.de>2007-10-12 23:04:06 +0200
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parentx86: block irq balancing for timer (diff)
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x86: Geode Multi-Function General Purpose Timers support
This adds support for Multi-Function General Purpose Timers. It detects the available timers during southbridge init, and provides an API for allocating and setting the timers. They're higher resolution than the standard PIT, so the MFGPTs come in handy for quite a few things. Note that we never clobber the timers that the BIOS might have opted to use; we just check for unused timers. Signed-off-by: Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
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@@ -1160,6 +1160,9 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
nomce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
+ nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
+ Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
+
noreplace-paravirt [X86-32,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops
noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions