linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/10][RFC] Increased clocksource validation and cleanups

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Date:	Mon, 12 Jan 2015 10:22:11 -0800
From:	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
To:	Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...emonkey.org.uk>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Prarit Bhargava <prarit@...hat.com>,
	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10][RFC] Increased clocksource validation and cleanups

On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 3:41 AM, Richard Cochran
<richardcochran@...il.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 09, 2015 at 04:34:18PM -0800, John Stultz wrote:
>> So this series is the result of earlier discussions with Linus
>> and his suggestions around improvements to clocksource validation
>> in the hope we can more easily catch bad hardware.
>
> Why penalize most users just because of a random hardware failure?
> Why not make the "catching code" a compile time option?

Yea, I've not looked at the actual performance impact yet, but things
like the read-time capping (which is in the hot path) could be put
under a debug config. Thanks for the suggestion!
-john
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