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authorDaniel Drake <drake@endlessm.com>2019-05-09 13:54:16 +0800
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2019-05-09 11:06:49 +0200
commit52ae346bd26c7a8b17ea82e9a09671e98c5402b7 (patch)
tree3b892467cb3fee769f33e8414ca974bc62e0329e /arch/x86/kernel/tsc_msr.c
parent604dc9170f2435d27da5039a3efd757dceadc684 (diff)
x86/apic: Rename 'lapic_timer_frequency' to 'lapic_timer_period'
This variable is a period unit (number of clock cycles per jiffy), not a frequency (which is number of cycles per second). Give it a more appropriate name. Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <drake@endlessm.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: len.brown@intel.com Cc: linux@endlessm.com Cc: rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190509055417.13152-2-drake@endlessm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/tsc_msr.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/tsc_msr.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc_msr.c b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc_msr.c
index 3d0e9aeea7c8..067858fe4db8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc_msr.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc_msr.c
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ static const struct x86_cpu_id tsc_msr_cpu_ids[] = {
/*
* MSR-based CPU/TSC frequency discovery for certain CPUs.
*
- * Set global "lapic_timer_frequency" to bus_clock_cycles/jiffy
+ * Set global "lapic_timer_period" to bus_clock_cycles/jiffy
* Return processor base frequency in KHz, or 0 on failure.
*/
unsigned long cpu_khz_from_msr(void)
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ unsigned long cpu_khz_from_msr(void)
res = freq * ratio;
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC
- lapic_timer_frequency = (freq * 1000) / HZ;
+ lapic_timer_period = (freq * 1000) / HZ;
#endif
/*