[PATCH] x86: rewrite SMP TSC sync code

make the TSC synchronization code more robust, and unify it between x86_64 and
i386.

The biggest change is the removal of the 'fix up TSCs' code on x86_64 and
i386, in some rare cases it was /causing/ time-warps on SMP systems.

The new code only checks for TSC asynchronity - and if it can prove a
time-warp (if it can observe the TSC going backwards when going from one CPU
to another within a critical section), then the TSC clock-source is turned
off.

The TSC synchronization-checking code also got moved into a separate file.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/time.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/time.c
index 3cc6886f1fb7..8cb2b2d35f5d 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/time.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/time.c
@@ -944,12 +944,23 @@ void __init time_init(void)
 #endif
 }
 
+static int tsc_unstable = 0;
+
+void mark_tsc_unstable(void)
+{
+        tsc_unstable = 1;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mark_tsc_unstable);
+
 /*
  * Make an educated guess if the TSC is trustworthy and synchronized
  * over all CPUs.
  */
 __cpuinit int unsynchronized_tsc(void)
 {
+        if (tsc_unstable)
+                return 1;
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
         if (apic_is_clustered_box())
                 return 1;