linux-kernel - [PATCH] configure HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK for SGI

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Message-ID: <20090106162741.GA7991@sgi.com>
Date:	Tue, 6 Jan 2009 10:27:41 -0600
From:	Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@....com>
To:	linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org, Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@...ell.com>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@...il.com>,
	Robin Holt <holt@....com>
Subject: [PATCH] configure HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK for SGI_SN systems

Turn on CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK for SGI_SN.

SGI Altix has unsynchronized itc clocks.  This results in rq->clock
occasionally being set to a time in the past by a remote cpu.

Note that it is possible that this problem may exist for other ia64
machines as well, based on the following comment for sched_clock() in
arch/ia64/kernel/head.S:

 * Return a CPU-local timestamp in nano-seconds.  This timestamp is
 * NOT synchronized across CPUs its return value must never be
 * compared against the values returned on another CPU.  The usage in
 * kernel/sched.c ensures that.


Signed-off-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@....com>

---

Greg, if everyone is OK with this patch, this should also be applied
to all stable trees starting with 2.6.26.

 arch/ia64/Kconfig |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Index: linux-2.6/arch/ia64/Kconfig
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/ia64/Kconfig	2009-01-06 10:13:13.051918923 -0600
+++ linux-2.6/arch/ia64/Kconfig	2009-01-06 10:13:44.547856328 -0600
@@ -536,6 +536,7 @@ config IA64_MC_ERR_INJECT
 
 config SGI_SN
 	def_bool y if (IA64_SGI_SN2 || IA64_GENERIC)
+	select HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
 
 config IA64_ESI
 	bool "ESI (Extensible SAL Interface) support"
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