Core2 marks its TSC unstable in ACPI Processor Idle, which is probed after sched_init_smp(). Luckily it appears both acpi_processor and intel_idle (which has a similar check) are mandatory built-in. This means we can delay switching to stable until after these drivers have ran (if they were modules, this would be impossible). Delay the stable switch to late_initcall() to allow these drivers to mark TSC unstable and avoid difficult stable->unstable transitions. Cc: "Rafael J . Wysocki" Reported-by: "Lofstedt, Marta" Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) --- include/linux/sched/clock.h | 5 ----- kernel/sched/clock.c | 10 +++++++++- kernel/sched/core.c | 2 -- 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) --- a/include/linux/sched/clock.h +++ b/include/linux/sched/clock.h @@ -23,10 +23,6 @@ extern u64 sched_clock_cpu(int cpu); extern void sched_clock_init(void); #ifndef CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK -static inline void sched_clock_init_late(void) -{ -} - static inline void sched_clock_tick(void) { } @@ -53,7 +49,6 @@ static inline u64 local_clock(void) return sched_clock(); } #else -extern void sched_clock_init_late(void); extern int sched_clock_stable(void); extern void clear_sched_clock_stable(void); --- a/kernel/sched/clock.c +++ b/kernel/sched/clock.c @@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include /* * Scheduler clock - returns current time in nanosec units. @@ -203,7 +204,11 @@ void clear_sched_clock_stable(void) __clear_sched_clock_stable(); } -void sched_clock_init_late(void) +/* + * We run this as late_initcall() such that it runs after all built-in drivers, + * notably: acpi_processor and intel_idle, which can mark the TSC as unstable. + */ +static int __init sched_clock_init_late(void) { sched_clock_running = 2; /* @@ -217,7 +222,10 @@ void sched_clock_init_late(void) if (__sched_clock_stable_early) __set_sched_clock_stable(); + + return 0; } +late_initcall(sched_clock_init_late); /* * min, max except they take wrapping into account --- a/kernel/sched/core.c +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c @@ -5962,7 +5962,6 @@ void __init sched_init_smp(void) init_sched_dl_class(); sched_init_smt(); - sched_clock_init_late(); sched_smp_initialized = true; } @@ -5978,7 +5977,6 @@ early_initcall(migration_init); void __init sched_init_smp(void) { sched_init_granularity(); - sched_clock_init_late(); } #endif /* CONFIG_SMP */