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    Merge branch 'x86-apic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip · 0902d501
    Linus Torvalds authored
    Pull x96 apic updates from Thomas Gleixner:
     "Updates for the x86 APIC interrupt handling and APIC timer:
    
       - Fix a long standing issue with spurious interrupts which was caused
         by the big vector management rework a few years ago. Robert Hodaszi
         provided finally enough debug data and an excellent initial failure
         analysis which allowed to understand the underlying issues.
    
         This contains a change to the core interrupt management code which
         is required to handle this correctly for the APIC/IO_APIC. The core
         changes are NOOPs for most architectures except ARM64. ARM64 is not
         impacted by the change as confirmed by Marc Zyngier.
    
       - Newer systems allow to disable the PIT clock for power saving
         causing panic in the timer interrupt delivery check of the IO/APIC
         when the HPET timer is not enabled either. While the clock could be
         turned on this would cause an endless whack a mole game to chase
         the proper register in each affected chipset.
    
         These systems provide the relevant frequencies for TSC, CPU and the
         local APIC timer via CPUID and/or MSRs, which allows to avoid the
         PIT/HPET based calibration. As the calibration code is the only
         usage of the legacy timers on modern systems and is skipped anyway
         when the frequencies are known already, there is no point in
         setting up the PIT and actually checking for the interrupt delivery
         via IO/APIC.
    
         To achieve this on a wide variety of platforms, the CPUID/MSR based
         frequency readout has been made more robust, which also allowed to
         remove quite some workarounds which turned out to be not longer
         required. Thanks to Daniel Drake for analysis, patches and
         verification"
    
    * 'x86-apic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
      x86/irq: Seperate unused system vectors from spurious entry again
      x86/irq: Handle spurious interrupt after shutdown gracefully
      x86/ioapic: Implement irq_get_irqchip_state() callback
      genirq: Add optional hardware synchronization for shutdown
      genirq: Fix misleading synchronize_irq() documentation
      genirq: Delay deactivation in free_irq()
      x86/timer: Skip PIT initialization on modern chipsets
      x86/apic: Use non-atomic operations when possible
      x86/apic: Make apic_bsp_setup() static
      x86/tsc: Set LAPIC timer period to crystal clock frequency
      x86/apic: Rename 'lapic_timer_frequency' to 'lapic_timer_period'
      x86/tsc: Use CPUID.0x16 to calculate missing crystal frequency
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