x86/platform/intel/baytrail: Add comments about why we disabled HPET on Baytrail

This question has been asked many times, and finally I found the
official document which explains the problem of HPET on Baytrail,
that it will halt in deep idle states.

Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: john.stultz@linaro.org
Cc: len.brown@intel.com
Cc: matthew.lee@intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1434361201-31743-1-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com
[ Prettified things a bit. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/early-quirks.c b/arch/x86/kernel/early-quirks.c
index fe9f0b79a18b321bbc80711b7e71dde49b7436e5..5cb9a4d6f62387bd4925244ec11d529ba677ae0b 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/early-quirks.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/early-quirks.c
@@ -627,8 +627,12 @@ static struct chipset early_qrk[] __initdata = {
        { PCI_VENDOR_ID_INTEL, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_CLASS_DISPLAY_VGA, PCI_ANY_ID,
          QFLAG_APPLY_ONCE, intel_graphics_stolen },
        /*
-        * HPET on current version of Baytrail platform has accuracy
-        * problems, disable it for now:
+        * HPET on the current version of the Baytrail platform has accuracy
+        * problems: it will halt in deep idle state - so we disable it.
+        *
+        * More details can be found in section 18.10.1.3 of the datasheet:
+        *
+        *    http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/datasheets/atom-z8000-datasheet-vol-1.pdf
         */
        { PCI_VENDOR_ID_INTEL, 0x0f00,
                PCI_CLASS_BRIDGE_HOST, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, force_disable_hpet},