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| author | Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> | 2019-03-07 15:09:13 +0300 |
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| committer | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2019-03-22 16:14:58 +0300 |
| commit | 0f0b7e1cc7abf8e1a8b301f2868379d611d05ae2 (patch) | |
| tree | 3a89ad3353ed398b71336b31fbd4856b99f87d92 /arch | |
| parent | 9e98c678c2d6ae3a17cb2de55d17f69dddaa231b (diff) | |
| download | linux-0f0b7e1cc7abf8e1a8b301f2868379d611d05ae2.tar.xz | |
x86/tsc: Add option to disable tsc clocksource watchdog
Clocksource watchdog has been found responsible for generating latency
spikes (in the 10-20 us range) when woken up to check for TSC stability.
Add an option to disable it at boot.
Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: bigeasy@linutronix.de
Cc: linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: bristot@redhat.com
Cc: williams@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190307120913.13168-1-juri.lelli@redhat.com
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c index 3fae23834069..aab0c82e0a0d 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c @@ -283,6 +283,7 @@ int __init notsc_setup(char *str) __setup("notsc", notsc_setup); static int no_sched_irq_time; +static int no_tsc_watchdog; static int __init tsc_setup(char *str) { @@ -292,6 +293,8 @@ static int __init tsc_setup(char *str) no_sched_irq_time = 1; if (!strcmp(str, "unstable")) mark_tsc_unstable("boot parameter"); + if (!strcmp(str, "nowatchdog")) + no_tsc_watchdog = 1; return 1; } @@ -1349,7 +1352,7 @@ static int __init init_tsc_clocksource(void) if (tsc_unstable) goto unreg; - if (tsc_clocksource_reliable) + if (tsc_clocksource_reliable || no_tsc_watchdog) clocksource_tsc.flags &= ~CLOCK_SOURCE_MUST_VERIFY; if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_NONSTOP_TSC_S3)) |