From: Thomas Gleixner APIC_DIVISOR is rather useless. It makes the calibration result more accurate in the first place, but we discard this later when we write the value to the APIC timer by dividing the calibration value by APIC_DIVISOR. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Chris Wright Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: john stultz Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- arch/x86_64/kernel/apic.c | 8 +++----- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff -puN arch/x86_64/kernel/apic.c~x86_64-apic-calibration-remove-divisor arch/x86_64/kernel/apic.c --- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/apic.c~x86_64-apic-calibration-remove-divisor +++ a/arch/x86_64/kernel/apic.c @@ -739,8 +739,6 @@ void __init init_apic_mappings(void) * P5 APIC double write bug. */ -#define APIC_DIVISOR 16 - static void __setup_APIC_LVTT(unsigned int clocks, int oneshot, int irqen) { unsigned int lvtt_value, tmp_value; @@ -762,7 +760,7 @@ static void __setup_APIC_LVTT(unsigned i | APIC_TDR_DIV_16); if (!oneshot) - apic_write(APIC_TMICT, clocks/APIC_DIVISOR); + apic_write(APIC_TMICT, clocks); } static void setup_APIC_timer(unsigned int clocks) @@ -815,7 +813,7 @@ static void __init calibrate_APIC_clock( * * No interrupt enable ! */ - __setup_APIC_LVTT(4000000000, 0, 0); + __setup_APIC_LVTT(250000000, 0, 0); apic_start = apic_read(APIC_TMCCT); #ifdef CONFIG_X86_PM_TIMER @@ -842,7 +840,7 @@ static void __init calibrate_APIC_clock( printk(KERN_INFO "Detected %d.%03d MHz APIC timer.\n", result / 1000 / 1000, result / 1000 % 1000); - calibration_result = result * APIC_DIVISOR / HZ; + calibration_result = result / HZ; } void __init setup_boot_APIC_clock (void) _