Add a simple udelay calibration in x86 architecture-specific
boot-time initializations. This will get a workable estimate
for loops_per_jiffy. Hence, udelay() could be used after this
initialization.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@redhat.com>
Cc: x...@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lu Baolu <baolu...@linux.intel.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
index 4cfba94..aab7faa 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
@@ -835,6 +835,26 @@ dump_kernel_offset(struct notifier_block *self, unsigned 
long v, void *p)
        return 0;
 }
 
+static void __init simple_udelay_calibration(void)
+{
+       unsigned int tsc_khz, cpu_khz;
+       unsigned long lpj;
+
+       if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_TSC))
+               return;
+
+       cpu_khz = x86_platform.calibrate_cpu();
+       tsc_khz = x86_platform.calibrate_tsc();
+
+       tsc_khz = tsc_khz ? : cpu_khz;
+       if (!tsc_khz)
+               return;
+
+       lpj = tsc_khz * 1000;
+       do_div(lpj, HZ);
+       loops_per_jiffy = lpj;
+}
+
 /*
  * Determine if we were loaded by an EFI loader.  If so, then we have also been
  * passed the efi memmap, systab, etc., so we should use these data structures
@@ -983,6 +1003,8 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
         */
        x86_configure_nx();
 
+       simple_udelay_calibration();
+
        parse_early_param();
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
-- 
2.1.4

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