I have found that using SMI to change the cpu's frequency on my DELL
Latitude L400 clobbers the ECX register in speedstep_set_state, causing
unneccessary retries because the "state" variable has changed silently (GCC
assumes it is still present in ECX).
play safe and avoid gcc caching any register across IO port accesses
that trigger SMIs.
Signed-off by: <Stephan.Diestelhorst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq:
[CPUFREQ] Don't take semaphore in cpufreq_quick_get()
[CPUFREQ] Support different families in fid/did to frequency conversion
[CPUFREQ] cpufreq_stats: misc cpuinit section annotations
[CPUFREQ] implement !CONFIG_CPU_FREQ stub for cpufreq_unregister_notifier()
[CPUFREQ] mark hotplug notifier callback as __cpuinit
[CPUFREQ] Only check for transition latency on problematic governors (kconfig fix)
[CPUFREQ] allow ondemand and conservative cpufreq governors to be used as default
[CPUFREQ] move policy's governor initialisation out of low-level drivers into cpufreq core
[CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Add support for PM133 northbridge
[CPUFREQ] x86: use num_online_nodes to get physical cpus numbers for