[PATCH] x86: rewrite SMP TSC sync code
make the TSC synchronization code more robust, and unify it between x86_64 and
i386.
The biggest change is the removal of the 'fix up TSCs' code on x86_64 and
i386, in some rare cases it was /causing/ time-warps on SMP systems.
The new code only checks for TSC asynchronity - and if it can prove a
time-warp (if it can observe the TSC going backwards when going from one CPU
to another within a critical section), then the TSC clock-source is turned
off.
The TSC synchronization-checking code also got moved into a separate file.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/time.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/time.c
index 3cc6886..8cb2b2d 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/time.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/time.c
@@ -944,12 +944,23 @@
#endif
}
+static int tsc_unstable = 0;
+
+void mark_tsc_unstable(void)
+{
+ tsc_unstable = 1;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mark_tsc_unstable);
+
/*
* Make an educated guess if the TSC is trustworthy and synchronized
* over all CPUs.
*/
__cpuinit int unsynchronized_tsc(void)
{
+ if (tsc_unstable)
+ return 1;
+
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
if (apic_is_clustered_box())
return 1;