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Message-ID: <1486653946.3787.16.camel@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2017 16:25:46 +0100
From: Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT pull] x86/timers for 4.10
On Thu, 2017-02-09 at 16:21 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Feb 2017, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2017-02-09 at 16:07 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > On Wed, 8 Feb 2017, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 2017-02-08 at 12:44 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > > > On Mon, 6 Feb 2017, Olof Johansson wrote:
> > > > > > [ 0.177102] [Firmware Bug]: TSC ADJUST differs: Reference CPU0:
> > > > > > -6495898515190607 CPU1: -6495898517158354
> > > > >
> > > > > Yay, another "clever" BIOS ....
> > > >
> > > > Oh yeah, that reminds me...
> > > >
> > > > I met one such box, and the adjustment code did salvage it, but I had
> > > > to cheat a little for it to do so reliably, as it would sometimes still
> > > > see a delta of 1 or 2 whole cycles, and hand me a useless wreck instead
> > > > quick like bunny big box.
> > >
> > > Can you share your cheatery ?
> >
> > I didn't keep it, it was just a bandaid for a fleeting use, dirt simple
> > ignore microscopic delta.
>
> Can you send me the dmesg output of that box for a good and a bad case or
> don't you have access to it anymore?
I don't even remember which box it was, but I can try to find it again
during idle moments.
-Mike
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