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hwmon: fam15h_power: fix bogus values with current BIOSes
authorAndre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>
Mon, 9 Apr 2012 22:16:34 +0000 (18:16 -0400)
committerMaxim Uvarov <maxim.uvarov@oracle.com>
Fri, 15 Jun 2012 20:39:13 +0000 (00:39 +0400)
commit7251169ab3bc80d1e806b7caa0631fabbc04da13
treee4923162cf85f1e7f9402d253bfab6160bb60906
parent18f7f882648c17680d91152eee46cd3637436cec
hwmon: fam15h_power: fix bogus values with current BIOSes

Newer BKDG[1] versions recommend a different initialization value for
the running average range register in the northbridge. This improves
the power reading by avoiding counter saturations resulting in bogus
values for anything below about 80% of TDP power consumption.
Updated BIOSes will have this new value set up from the beginning,
but meanwhile we correct this value ourselves.
This needs to be done on all northbridges, even on those where the
driver itself does not register at.

This fixes the driver on all current machines to provide proper
values for idle load.

[1]
http://support.amd.com/us/Processor_TechDocs/42301_15h_Mod_00h-0Fh_BKDG.pdf
Chapter 3.8: D18F5xE0 Processor TDP Running Average (p. 452)

Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>
Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
[guenter.roeck@ericsson.com: Removed unnecessary return statement]
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.0+
drivers/hwmon/fam15h_power.c