Timing
notsc
- Don't use the CPU time stamp counter to read the wall time.
- This can be used to work around timing problems on multiprocessor systems
- with not properly synchronized CPUs.
+ Deprecated, use tsc=unstable instead.
nohpet
Don't use the HPET timer.
*/
static int __read_mostly tsc_unstable;
-/* native_sched_clock() is called before tsc_init(), so
- we must start with the TSC soft disabled to prevent
- erroneous rdtsc usage on !boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_TSC) processors */
-static int __read_mostly tsc_disabled = -1;
-
static DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(__use_tsc);
int tsc_clocksource_reliable;
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_TSC
int __init notsc_setup(char *str)
{
- pr_warn("Kernel compiled with CONFIG_X86_TSC, cannot disable TSC completely\n");
- tsc_disabled = 1;
+ mark_tsc_unstable("boot parameter notsc");
return 1;
}
#else
static int __init init_tsc_clocksource(void)
{
- if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_TSC) || tsc_disabled > 0 || !tsc_khz)
+ if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_TSC) || !tsc_khz)
return 0;
if (tsc_unstable)
set_cyc2ns_scale(tsc_khz, cpu, cyc);
}
- if (tsc_disabled > 0)
- return;
-
- /* now allow native_sched_clock() to use rdtsc */
-
- tsc_disabled = 0;
static_branch_enable(&__use_tsc);
if (!no_sched_irq_time)
int constant_tsc = cpu_has(&cpu_data(cpu), X86_FEATURE_CONSTANT_TSC);
const struct cpumask *mask = topology_core_cpumask(cpu);
- if (tsc_disabled || !constant_tsc || !mask)
+ if (!constant_tsc || !mask)
return 0;
sibling = cpumask_any_but(mask, cpu);