x86: use cpu_khz for loops_per_jiffy calculation

On the x86 platform we can use the value of tsc_khz computed during tsc
calibration to calculate the loops_per_jiffy value. Its very important
to keep the error in lpj values to minimum as any error in that may
result in kernel panic in check_timer. In virtualization environment, On
a highly overloaded host the guest delay calibration may sometimes
result in errors beyond the ~50% that timer_irq_works can handle,
resulting in the guest panicking.

Does some formating changes to lpj_setup code to now have a single
printk to print the bogomips value.

We do this only for the boot processor because the AP's can have
different base frequencies or the BIOS might boot a AP at a different
frequency.

Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Daniel Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com>
Cc: Tim Mann <mann@vmware.com>
Cc: Zach Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Sahil Rihan <srihan@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/time_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/time_64.c
index c737849e2ef7..12b4a71bd074 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/time_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/time_64.c
@@ -123,6 +123,8 @@ void __init time_init(void)
 		(boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor == X86_VENDOR_AMD))
 		cpu_khz = calculate_cpu_khz();
 
+	lpj_tsc = ((unsigned long)tsc_khz * 1000)/HZ;
+
 	if (unsynchronized_tsc())
 		mark_tsc_unstable("TSCs unsynchronized");