linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Revert "cpuidle: Replace ktime_get() with local

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Date:   Thu, 20 Apr 2017 16:41:46 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
Cc:     ville.syrjala@...ux.intel.com, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "cpuidle: Replace ktime_get() with local_clock()"

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 04:37:51PM +0200, Daniel Lezcano wrote:

> >  
> > +	sched_clock_idle_wakeup_event(0);
> > +
> 
> Is it planned to skip this if the tsc is reliable?

Yes. Current code doesn't quite do that, but if you follow that link I
send earlier, I'm about to fix that (again).

Now, if only this Core2 piece of crap would actually boot a recent
kernel, I could go figure out wth is wrong.. :/