linux-kernel - Re: [tip:x86/tsc] x86: Improve TSC calibration using a delayed workqueue

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Tue, 11 Jan 2011 11:26:11 +0100 (CET)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
cc:	mingo@...hat.com, hpa@...or.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	andi@...stfloor.org, johnstul@...ibm.com, williams@...hat.com,
	schwidefsky@...ibm.com, mingo@...e.hu,
	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:x86/tsc] x86: Improve TSC calibration using a delayed
 workqueue

On Tue, 11 Jan 2011, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 09:37:15AM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > Does the patch below fix it ? We can end up with tsc_khz=0 there :(
> 
> Yes, it does.
> 
> Bisected-and-tested-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kas@...nvz.org>

Looking deeper, we should avoid to schedule the delayed init
completely. Does that work as well ?

Thanks,

	tglx
---

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
index 03d2ea8..823f79a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
@@ -965,7 +965,7 @@ out:
 
 static int __init init_tsc_clocksource(void)
 {
-	if (!cpu_has_tsc || tsc_disabled > 0)
+	if (!cpu_has_tsc || tsc_disabled > 0 || !tsc_khz)
 		return 0;
 
 	if (tsc_clocksource_reliable)
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/