x86/tsc: Redefine notsc to behave as tsc=unstable
authorPavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com>
Thu, 19 Jul 2018 20:55:30 +0000 (16:55 -0400)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Thu, 19 Jul 2018 22:02:39 +0000 (00:02 +0200)
commitfe9af81e524e8a86bdd59c0cc0d9e2b0ccaf840f
tree9b9a206a63e6cad4b94bcd96ad03a14cfaa81316
parent9b3661cd7e5400689ed168a7275e75af333177e6
x86/tsc: Redefine notsc to behave as tsc=unstable

Currently, the notsc kernel parameter disables the use of the TSC by
sched_clock(). However, this parameter does not prevent the kernel from
accessing tsc in other places.

The only rationale to boot with notsc is to avoid timing discrepancies on
multi-socket systems where TSC are not properly synchronized, and thus
exclude TSC from being used for time keeping. But that prevents using TSC
as sched_clock() as well, which is not necessary as the core sched_clock()
implementation can handle non synchronized TSC based sched clocks just
fine.

However, there is another method to solve the above problem: booting with
tsc=unstable parameter. This parameter allows sched_clock() to use TSC and
just excludes it from timekeeping.

So there is no real reason to keep notsc, but for compatibility reasons the
parameter has to stay. Make it behave like 'tsc=unstable' instead.

[ tglx: Massaged changelog ]

Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Dou Liyang <douly.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180719205545.16512-12-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c