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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/tsc_32.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/tsc_32.c | 15 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc_32.c index d7498b34c8e..f14cfd9d1f9 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc_32.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc_32.c @@ -287,27 +287,14 @@ core_initcall(cpufreq_tsc); /* clock source code */ static unsigned long current_tsc_khz = 0; -static struct clocksource clocksource_tsc; -/* - * We compare the TSC to the cycle_last value in the clocksource - * structure to avoid a nasty time-warp issue. This can be observed in - * a very small window right after one CPU updated cycle_last under - * xtime lock and the other CPU reads a TSC value which is smaller - * than the cycle_last reference value due to a TSC which is slighty - * behind. This delta is nowhere else observable, but in that case it - * results in a forward time jump in the range of hours due to the - * unsigned delta calculation of the time keeping core code, which is - * necessary to support wrapping clocksources like pm timer. - */ static cycle_t read_tsc(void) { cycle_t ret; rdtscll(ret); - return ret >= clocksource_tsc.cycle_last ? - ret : clocksource_tsc.cycle_last; + return ret; } static struct clocksource clocksource_tsc = { |