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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c | 21 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c index 56b0c338061..b6025f9e36c 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c @@ -950,7 +950,7 @@ core_initcall(cpufreq_tsc); static struct clocksource clocksource_tsc; /* - * We compare the TSC to the cycle_last value in the clocksource + * We used to compare the TSC to the cycle_last value in the clocksource * structure to avoid a nasty time-warp. This can be observed in a * very small window right after one CPU updated cycle_last under * xtime/vsyscall_gtod lock and the other CPU reads a TSC value which @@ -960,26 +960,23 @@ static struct clocksource clocksource_tsc; * due to the unsigned delta calculation of the time keeping core * code, which is necessary to support wrapping clocksources like pm * timer. + * + * This sanity check is now done in the core timekeeping code. + * checking the result of read_tsc() - cycle_last for being negative. + * That works because CLOCKSOURCE_MASK(64) does not mask out any bit. */ static cycle_t read_tsc(struct clocksource *cs) { - cycle_t ret = (cycle_t)get_cycles(); - - return ret >= clocksource_tsc.cycle_last ? - ret : clocksource_tsc.cycle_last; -} - -static void resume_tsc(struct clocksource *cs) -{ - if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_NONSTOP_TSC_S3)) - clocksource_tsc.cycle_last = 0; + return (cycle_t)get_cycles(); } +/* + * .mask MUST be CLOCKSOURCE_MASK(64). See comment above read_tsc() + */ static struct clocksource clocksource_tsc = { .name = "tsc", .rating = 300, .read = read_tsc, - .resume = resume_tsc, .mask = CLOCKSOURCE_MASK(64), .flags = CLOCK_SOURCE_IS_CONTINUOUS | CLOCK_SOURCE_MUST_VERIFY, |