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x86/tsc: Provide 'tsc=unstable' boot parameter
authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Thu, 13 Apr 2017 12:56:44 +0000 (14:56 +0200)
committerSasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Wed, 23 May 2018 01:36:24 +0000 (21:36 -0400)
commita25036dbbf56f23d1b3d4624e2e775ffc5fba9b9
tree41011d18ac71f9de2718157ea086db6d6c74e5b3
parent4e377f51f118fc3c0c85843fea3483a4129ac222
x86/tsc: Provide 'tsc=unstable' boot parameter

[ Upstream commit 8309f86cd41e8714526867177facf7a316d9be53 ]

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@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c