提交 7708d5f0 编写于 作者: P Peter Zijlstra 提交者: Ingo Molnar

sched/clock: Print a warning recommending 'tsc=unstable'

With our switch to stable delayed until late_initcall(), the most
likely cause of hitting mark_tsc_unstable() is the watchdog. The
watchdog typically only triggers when creative BIOS'es fiddle with the
TSC to hide SMI latency.

Since the watchdog can only detect TSC fiddling after the fact all TSC
clocks (including userspace GTOD) can already have reported funny
values.

The only way to fully avoid this, is manually marking the TSC unstable
at boot. Suggest people do this on their broken systems.
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: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
上级 2e44b7dd
......@@ -175,6 +175,7 @@ static void __sched_clock_work(struct work_struct *work)
for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
per_cpu(sched_clock_data, cpu) = *scd;
printk(KERN_WARNING "TSC found unstable after boot, most likely due to broken BIOS. Use 'tsc=unstable'.\n");
printk(KERN_INFO "sched_clock: Marking unstable (%lld, %lld)<-(%lld, %lld)\n",
scd->tick_gtod, __gtod_offset,
scd->tick_raw, __sched_clock_offset);
......
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