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Michael Zhivich 63ec58b44f x86/tsc: Respect tsc command line paraemeter for clocksource_tsc_early
The introduction of clocksource_tsc_early broke the functionality of
"tsc=reliable" and "tsc=nowatchdog" command line parameters, since
clocksource_tsc_early is unconditionally registered with
CLOCK_SOURCE_MUST_VERIFY and thus put on the watchdog list.

This can cause the TSC to be declared unstable during boot:

  clocksource: timekeeping watchdog on CPU0: Marking clocksource
               'tsc-early' as unstable because the skew is too large:
  clocksource: 'refined-jiffies' wd_now: fffb7018 wd_last: fffb6e9d
               mask: ffffffff
  clocksource: 'tsc-early' cs_now: 68a6a7070f6a0 cs_last: 68a69ab6f74d6
               mask: ffffffffffffffff
  tsc: Marking TSC unstable due to clocksource watchdog

The corresponding elapsed times are cs_nsec=1224152026 and wd_nsec=378942392, so
the watchdog differs from TSC by 0.84 seconds.

This happens when HPET is not available and jiffies are used as the TSC
watchdog instead and the jiffies update is not happening due to lost timer
interrupts in periodic mode, which can happen e.g. with expensive debug
mechanisms enabled or under massive overload conditions in virtualized
environments.

Before the introduction of the early TSC clocksource the command line
parameters "tsc=reliable" and "tsc=nowatchdog" could be used to work around
this issue.

Restore the behaviour by disabling the watchdog if requested on the kernel
command line.

[ tglx: Clarify changelog ]

Fixes: aa83c45762 ("x86/tsc: Introduce early tsc clocksource")
Signed-off-by: Michael Zhivich <mzhivich@akamai.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191024175945.14338-1-mzhivich@akamai.com
2019-11-05 01:24:56 +01:00
arch x86/tsc: Respect tsc command line paraemeter for clocksource_tsc_early 2019-11-05 01:24:56 +01:00
block blk-rq-qos: fix first node deletion of rq_qos_del() 2019-10-15 10:13:13 -06:00
certs PKCS#7: Refactor verify_pkcs7_signature() 2019-08-05 18:40:18 -04:00
crypto Merge branch 'next-lockdown' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2019-09-28 08:14:15 -07:00
Documentation Merge branch 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-10-20 06:27:54 -04:00
drivers Merge branch 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-10-20 06:27:54 -04:00
fs Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2019-10-19 06:53:59 -04:00
include Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2019-10-19 17:09:11 -04:00
init Merge branch 'next-lockdown' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2019-09-28 08:14:15 -07:00
ipc ipc/sem.c: convert to use built-in RCU list checking 2019-09-25 17:51:41 -07:00
kernel Kbuild fixes for v5.4 (2nd) 2019-10-20 12:36:57 -04:00
lib copy-struct-from-user-v5.4-rc4 2019-10-18 18:19:04 -04:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
mm mm/thp: allow dropping THP from page cache 2019-10-19 06:32:33 -04:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2019-10-19 17:09:11 -04:00
samples samples/bpf: Add a workaround for asm_inline 2019-10-03 17:37:11 +02:00
scripts Kbuild fixes for v5.4 (2nd) 2019-10-20 12:36:57 -04:00
security selinux/stable-5.4 PR 20191007 2019-10-08 10:51:37 -07:00
sound ALSA: hda - Force runtime PM on Nvidia HDMI codecs 2019-10-17 17:45:32 +02:00
tools Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2019-10-19 17:09:11 -04:00
usr kbuild: update compile-test header list for v5.4-rc2 2019-10-05 15:29:49 +09:00
virt KVM/arm fixes for 5.4, take #1 2019-10-03 12:08:50 +02:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2019-08-31 10:00:51 +02:00
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.gitignore Modules updates for v5.4 2019-09-22 10:34:46 -07:00
.mailmap Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next 2019-09-18 12:34:53 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Remove Simon as Renesas SoC Co-Maintainer 2019-10-10 08:12:51 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: do not descend to ./Kbuild when cleaning 2019-08-21 21:03:58 +09:00
Kconfig docs: kbuild: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst 2019-06-14 14:21:21 -06:00
MAINTAINERS Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2019-10-19 17:09:11 -04:00
Makefile Linux 5.4-rc4 2019-10-20 15:56:22 -04:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.