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Feng Tang 72736a3b90 x86/tsc: Disable clocksource watchdog for TSC on qualified platorms 
commit b50db7095f upstream.

There are cases that the TSC clocksource is wrongly judged as unstable by
the clocksource watchdog mechanism which tries to validate the TSC against
HPET, PM_TIMER or jiffies. While there is hardly a general reliable way to
check the validity of a watchdog, Thomas Gleixner proposed [1]:

"I'm inclined to lift that requirement when the CPU has:

    1) X86_FEATURE_CONSTANT_TSC
    2) X86_FEATURE_NONSTOP_TSC
    3) X86_FEATURE_NONSTOP_TSC_S3
    4) X86_FEATURE_TSC_ADJUST
    5) At max. 4 sockets

 After two decades of horrors we're finally at a point where TSC seems
 to be halfway reliable and less abused by BIOS tinkerers. TSC_ADJUST
 was really key as we can now detect even small modifications reliably
 and the important point is that we can cure them as well (not pretty
 but better than all other options)."

As feature #3 X86_FEATURE_NONSTOP_TSC_S3 only exists on several generations
of Atom processorz, and is always coupled with X86_FEATURE_CONSTANT_TSC
and X86_FEATURE_NONSTOP_TSC, skip checking it, and also be more defensive
to use maximal 2 sockets.

The check is done inside tsc_init() before registering 'tsc-early' and
'tsc' clocksources, as there were cases that both of them had been
wrongly judged as unreliable.

For more background of tsc/watchdog, there is a good summary in [2]

[tglx} Update vs. jiffies:

  On systems where the only remaining clocksource aside of TSC is jiffies
  there is no way to make this work because that creates a circular
  dependency. Jiffies accuracy depends on not missing a periodic timer
  interrupt, which is not guaranteed. That could be detected by TSC, but as
  TSC is not trusted this cannot be compensated. The consequence is a
  circulus vitiosus which results in shutting down TSC and falling back to
  the jiffies clocksource which is even more unreliable.

[1]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/87eekfk8bd.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de/
[2]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/87a6pimt1f.ffs@nanos.tec.linutronix.de/

[ tglx: Refine comment and amend changelog ]

Fixes: 6e3cd95234 ("x86/hpet: Use another crystalball to evaluate HPET usability")
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211117023751.24190-2-feng.tang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2021-12-08 09:01:14 +01:00
arch x86/tsc: Disable clocksource watchdog for TSC on qualified platorms 2021-12-08 09:01:14 +01:00
block block: remove inaccurate requeue check 2021-11-17 09:48:31 +01:00
certs certs: Trigger creation of RSA module signing key if it's not an RSA key 2021-09-15 09:47:29 +02:00
crypto crypto: pcrypt - Delay write to padata->info 2021-11-17 09:48:40 +01:00
Documentation netfilter: ipvs: Fix reuse connection if RS weight is 0 2021-12-01 09:23:31 +01:00
drivers usb: typec: tcpm: Wait in SNK_DEBOUNCED until disconnect 2021-12-08 09:01:13 +01:00
fs fget: check that the fd still exists after getting a ref to it 2021-12-08 09:01:11 +01:00
include ipv6: fix memory leak in fib6_rule_suppress 2021-12-08 09:01:13 +01:00
init kbuild: add CONFIG_LD_IS_LLD 2021-06-30 08:47:44 -04:00
ipc shm: extend forced shm destroy to support objects from several IPC nses 2021-12-01 09:23:35 +01:00
kernel sched/uclamp: Fix rq->uclamp_max not set on first enqueue 2021-12-08 09:01:13 +01:00
lib siphash: use _unaligned version by default 2021-12-08 09:01:12 +01:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
mm hugetlbfs: flush TLBs correctly after huge_pmd_unshare 2021-11-26 10:47:23 +01:00
net ipv6: fix memory leak in fib6_rule_suppress 2021-12-08 09:01:13 +01:00
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sound ASoC: topology: Add missing rwsem around snd_ctl_remove() calls 2021-12-01 09:23:32 +01:00
tools selftests: net: Correct case name 2021-12-08 09:01:12 +01:00
usr initramfs: restore default compression behavior 2020-04-08 09:08:38 +02:00
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Kbuild kbuild: do not descend to ./Kbuild when cleaning 2019-08-21 21:03:58 +09:00
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README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.