This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
parisc: Use cr16 interval timers unconditionally on qemu
to the 4.15-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
parisc-use-cr16-interval-timers-unconditionally-on-qemu.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 5ffa8518851f1401817c15d2a7eecc0373c26ff9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 22:44:00 +0100
Subject: parisc: Use cr16 interval timers unconditionally on qemu
From: Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx>
commit 5ffa8518851f1401817c15d2a7eecc0373c26ff9 upstream.
When running on qemu we know that the (emulated) cr16 cpu-internal
clocks are syncronized. So let's use them unconditionally on qemu.
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 4.14+
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/parisc/include/asm/processor.h | 2 ++
arch/parisc/kernel/time.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/parisc/include/asm/processor.h
+++ b/arch/parisc/include/asm/processor.h
@@ -316,6 +316,8 @@ extern int _parisc_requires_coherency;
#define parisc_requires_coherency() (0)
#endif
+extern int running_on_qemu;
+
#endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
#endif /* __ASM_PARISC_PROCESSOR_H */
--- a/arch/parisc/kernel/time.c
+++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/time.c
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ static int __init init_cr16_clocksource(
* different sockets, so mark them unstable and lower rating on
* multi-socket SMP systems.
*/
- if (num_online_cpus() > 1) {
+ if (num_online_cpus() > 1 && !running_on_qemu) {
int cpu;
unsigned long cpu0_loc;
cpu0_loc = per_cpu(cpu_data, 0).cpu_loc;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from deller@xxxxxx are
queue-4.15/parisc-hide-virtual-kernel-memory-layout.patch
queue-4.15/parisc-use-cr16-interval-timers-unconditionally-on-qemu.patch
queue-4.15/parisc-fix-ordering-of-cache-and-tlb-flushes.patch
queue-4.15/parisc-reduce-irq-overhead-when-run-in-qemu.patch