sched/clock: Use late_initcall() instead of sched_init_smp()

Core2 marks its TSC unstable in ACPI Processor Idle, which is probed
after sched_init_smp(). Luckily it appears both acpi_processor and
intel_idle (which has a similar check) are mandatory built-in.

This means we can delay switching to stable until after these drivers
have ran (if they were modules, this would be impossible).

Delay the stable switch to late_initcall() to allow these drivers to
mark TSC unstable and avoid difficult stable->unstable transitions.
Reported-by: NLofstedt, Marta <marta.lofstedt@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rafael J . Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

include/linux/sched/clock.h

@@ -23,10 +23,6 @@ extern u64 sched_clock_cpu(int cpu);
 extern void sched_clock_init(void);
 
 #ifndef CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
-static inline void sched_clock_init_late(void)
-{
-}
-
 static inline void sched_clock_tick(void)
 {
 }
@@ -53,7 +49,6 @@ static inline u64 local_clock(void)
 	return sched_clock();
 }
 #else
-extern void sched_clock_init_late(void);
 extern int sched_clock_stable(void);
 extern void clear_sched_clock_stable(void);
 

kernel/sched/clock.c

@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@
 #include <linux/workqueue.h>
 #include <linux/compiler.h>
 #include <linux/tick.h>
+#include <linux/init.h>
 
 /*
  * Scheduler clock - returns current time in nanosec units.
@@ -202,7 +203,11 @@ void clear_sched_clock_stable(void)
 		__clear_sched_clock_stable();
 }
 
-void sched_clock_init_late(void)
+/*
+ * We run this as late_initcall() such that it runs after all built-in drivers,
+ * notably: acpi_processor and intel_idle, which can mark the TSC as unstable.
+ */
+static int __init sched_clock_init_late(void)
 {
 	sched_clock_running = 2;
 	/*
@@ -216,7 +221,10 @@ void sched_clock_init_late(void)
 
 	if (__sched_clock_stable_early)
 		__set_sched_clock_stable();
+
+	return 0;
 }
+late_initcall(sched_clock_init_late);
 
 /*
  * min, max except they take wrapping into account

kernel/sched/core.c

@@ -5984,7 +5984,6 @@ void __init sched_init_smp(void)
 	init_sched_dl_class();
 
 	sched_init_smt();
-	sched_clock_init_late();
 
 	sched_smp_initialized = true;
 }
@@ -6000,7 +5999,6 @@ early_initcall(migration_init);
 void __init sched_init_smp(void)
 {
 	sched_init_granularity();
-	sched_clock_init_late();
 }
 #endif /* CONFIG_SMP */