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authorjohn stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>2006-02-01 03:05:19 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-02-01 08:53:14 -0800
commitbfaa1deeb982c985d8e0435e835baeaae63b57fd (patch)
tree4e7dcee0443cb0595258f9c8bd16982ba87386f4 /arch/i386
parent2f7016d917faef8f1e016b4a7bd7f594694480b6 (diff)
[PATCH] disable lost tick compensation before TSCs are synced
Avoid lost tick compensation early in boot before the TSCs are synchronized. Currently timekeeping is enabled before the TSCs are synchronized, thus when the TSCs are synched (reset to zero), it appears that a number of lost ticks have occurred. This can cause premature expiry of timers and in extreme cases can cause the soft lockup detection to fire. This resolves issues reported by Andy Whitcroft as well as bug #5366 reported by Tim Mann. Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/i386')
-rw-r--r--arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c14
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c b/arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c
index 47675bbbb31..7c86e3c5f1c 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c
@@ -45,6 +45,15 @@ static unsigned long last_tsc_high; /* msb 32 bits of Time Stamp Counter */
static unsigned long long monotonic_base;
static seqlock_t monotonic_lock = SEQLOCK_UNLOCKED;
+/* Avoid compensating for lost ticks before TSCs are synched */
+static int detect_lost_ticks;
+static int __init start_lost_tick_compensation(void)
+{
+ detect_lost_ticks = 1;
+ return 0;
+}
+late_initcall(start_lost_tick_compensation);
+
/* convert from cycles(64bits) => nanoseconds (64bits)
* basic equation:
* ns = cycles / (freq / ns_per_sec)
@@ -196,7 +205,8 @@ static void mark_offset_tsc_hpet(void)
/* lost tick compensation */
offset = hpet_readl(HPET_T0_CMP) - hpet_tick;
- if (unlikely(((offset - hpet_last) > hpet_tick) && (hpet_last != 0))) {
+ if (unlikely(((offset - hpet_last) > hpet_tick) && (hpet_last != 0))
+ && detect_lost_ticks) {
int lost_ticks = (offset - hpet_last) / hpet_tick;
jiffies_64 += lost_ticks;
}
@@ -421,7 +431,7 @@ static void mark_offset_tsc(void)
delta += delay_at_last_interrupt;
lost = delta/(1000000/HZ);
delay = delta%(1000000/HZ);
- if (lost >= 2) {
+ if (lost >= 2 && detect_lost_ticks) {
jiffies_64 += lost-1;
/* sanity check to ensure we're not always losing ticks */