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-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/tsc_32.c15
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc_32.c
index d7498b34c8e..f14cfd9d1f9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc_32.c
@@ -287,27 +287,14 @@ core_initcall(cpufreq_tsc);
/* clock source code */
static unsigned long current_tsc_khz = 0;
-static struct clocksource clocksource_tsc;
-/*
- * We compare the TSC to the cycle_last value in the clocksource
- * structure to avoid a nasty time-warp issue. This can be observed in
- * a very small window right after one CPU updated cycle_last under
- * xtime lock and the other CPU reads a TSC value which is smaller
- * than the cycle_last reference value due to a TSC which is slighty
- * behind. This delta is nowhere else observable, but in that case it
- * results in a forward time jump in the range of hours due to the
- * unsigned delta calculation of the time keeping core code, which is
- * necessary to support wrapping clocksources like pm timer.
- */
static cycle_t read_tsc(void)
{
cycle_t ret;
rdtscll(ret);
- return ret >= clocksource_tsc.cycle_last ?
- ret : clocksource_tsc.cycle_last;
+ return ret;
}
static struct clocksource clocksource_tsc = {