linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.7 027/143] parisc: Fix automatic selection of cr16 clocksource

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Date:   Mon,  5 Sep 2016 18:43:23 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Helge Deller <deller@....de>
Subject: [PATCH 4.7 027/143] parisc: Fix automatic selection of cr16 clocksource

4.7-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Helge Deller <deller@....de>

commit ae141830b118c3fb5b7eab6fa7c8ab7b7224b0a4 upstream.

Commit 54b66800907 (parisc: Add native high-resolution sched_clock()
implementation) added support to use the CPU-internal cr16 counters as reliable
clocksource with the help of HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK.

Sadly the commit missed to remove the hack which prevented cr16 to become the
default clocksource even on SMP systems.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@....de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/parisc/kernel/processor.c |    8 --------
 arch/parisc/kernel/time.c      |   12 ------------
 2 files changed, 20 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/parisc/kernel/processor.c
+++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/processor.c
@@ -51,8 +51,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(_parisc_requires_coherency
 
 DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct cpuinfo_parisc, cpu_data);
 
-extern int update_cr16_clocksource(void);	/* from time.c */
-
 /*
 **  	PARISC CPU driver - claim "device" and initialize CPU data structures.
 **
@@ -228,12 +226,6 @@ static int processor_probe(struct parisc
 	}
 #endif
 
-	/* If we've registered more than one cpu,
-	 * we'll use the jiffies clocksource since cr16
-	 * is not synchronized between CPUs.
-	 */
-	update_cr16_clocksource();
-
 	return 0;
 }
 
--- a/arch/parisc/kernel/time.c
+++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/time.c
@@ -220,18 +220,6 @@ static struct clocksource clocksource_cr
 	.flags			= CLOCK_SOURCE_IS_CONTINUOUS,
 };
 
-int update_cr16_clocksource(void)
-{
-	/* since the cr16 cycle counters are not synchronized across CPUs,
-	   we'll check if we should switch to a safe clocksource: */
-	if (clocksource_cr16.rating != 0 && num_online_cpus() > 1) {
-		clocksource_change_rating(&clocksource_cr16, 0);
-		return 1;
-	}
-
-	return 0;
-}
-
 void __init start_cpu_itimer(void)
 {
 	unsigned int cpu = smp_processor_id();