Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/core

Merge reason: This brach was on -rc1, refresh it to almost-rc4 to pick up
              the latest upstream fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
index fb504f843e58..e9021a908020 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
@@ -432,6 +432,12 @@ static void __cpuinit setup_APIC_timer(void)
 {
 	struct clock_event_device *levt = &__get_cpu_var(lapic_events);
 
+	if (cpu_has(&current_cpu_data, X86_FEATURE_ARAT)) {
+		lapic_clockevent.features &= ~CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_C3STOP;
+		/* Make LAPIC timer preferrable over percpu HPET */
+		lapic_clockevent.rating = 150;
+	}
+
 	memcpy(levt, &lapic_clockevent, sizeof(*levt));
 	levt->cpumask = cpumask_of(smp_processor_id());