Synchronize rdtsc instructions

The CPU can arbitrarily reorder calls to rdtsc, significantly
reducing the precision of timing using the CPUs time stamp counter.
Unfortunately the method of synchronizing rdtsc is different
on AMD and Intel CPUs. There is a generic method, using the cpuid
instruction, but that uses up a lot of registers, and is very slow.
Hence, use the correct lfence/mfence instructions (for CPUs that
we know support it)

Change-Id: I17ecb48d283f38f23148c13159aceda704c64ea5
Signed-off-by: Stefan Reinauer <reinauer@google.com>
Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/1422
Reviewed-by: Alexandru Gagniuc <mr.nuke.me@gmail.com>
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins)
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Stefan Reinauer
2012-08-07 14:44:51 -07:00
committed by Stefan Reinauer
parent 4c29d7f27d
commit 0db6820b10
10 changed files with 40 additions and 4 deletions

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@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@ config CPU_INTEL_MODEL_106CX
select SSE2
select UDELAY_LAPIC
select AP_IN_SIPI_WAIT
select TSC_SYNC_MFENCE
config CPU_ADDR_BITS
int
default 32