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authorJuri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>2019-03-07 13:09:13 +0100
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2019-03-22 14:14:58 +0100
commit0f0b7e1cc7abf8e1a8b301f2868379d611d05ae2 (patch)
tree3a89ad3353ed398b71336b31fbd4856b99f87d92 /arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
parentLinux 5.1-rc1 (diff)
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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/x86/kernel/tsc.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c5
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))