Commit-ID: 8309f86cd41e8714526867177facf7a316d9be53
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/8309f86cd41e8714526867177facf7a316d9be53
Author: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 14:56:44 +0200
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Mon, 15 May 2017 10:15:14 +0200
x86/tsc: Provide 'tsc=unstable' boot parameter
Since the clocksource watchdog will only detect broken TSC after the
fact, all TSC based clocks will likely have observed non-continuous
values before/when switching away from TSC.
Therefore only thing to fully avoid random clock movement when your
BIOS randomly mucks with TSC values from SMI handlers is reporting the
TSC as unstable at boot.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
index 714dfba..8ab883a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
@@ -374,6 +374,8 @@ static int __init tsc_setup(char *str)
tsc_clocksource_reliable = 1;
if (!strncmp(str, "noirqtime", 9))
no_sched_irq_time = 1;
+ if (!strcmp(str, "unstable"))
+ mark_tsc_unstable("boot parameter");
return 1;
}
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