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authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2017-04-13 15:56:44 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2018-04-13 20:47:57 +0300
commitc4f8fbce84e2a0c6df3bfafc7bae7be59846c4b8 (patch)
tree3cca45a4222612ffd9dc64c0883947d5f7f1e14b /arch
parent0babe22bda12dee55de6a3ba306cdb925db12923 (diff)
downloadlinux-c4f8fbce84e2a0c6df3bfafc7bae7be59846c4b8.tar.xz
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> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
index d07a9390023e..bbfb03eccb7f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
@@ -366,6 +366,8 @@ 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;
}