x86/tsc: Provide a means to disable TSC ART
authormike.travis@hpe.com <mike.travis@hpe.com>
Thu, 12 Oct 2017 16:32:05 +0000 (11:32 -0500)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Mon, 16 Oct 2017 20:50:37 +0000 (22:50 +0200)
On systems where multiple chassis are reset asynchronously, and thus
the TSC counters are started asynchronously, the offset needed to
convert to TSC to ART would be different.  Disable ART in that case
and rely on the TSC counters to supply the accurate time.

Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <mike.travis@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <dimitri.sivanich@hpe.com>
Cc: Russ Anderson <russ.anderson@hpe.com>
Cc: Andrew Banman <andrew.banman@hpe.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Bin Gao <bin.gao@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171012163202.289397994@stormcage.americas.sgi.com
arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c

index 896dbe31b407b9f982f2fc8e5ac254152dcc88fe..f1326c0422c1bf137de5e7994077fcc8f5d7e653 100644 (file)
@@ -962,10 +962,14 @@ static void detect_art(void)
        if (boot_cpu_data.cpuid_level < ART_CPUID_LEAF)
                return;
 
-       /* Don't enable ART in a VM, non-stop TSC and TSC_ADJUST required */
+       /*
+        * Don't enable ART in a VM, non-stop TSC and TSC_ADJUST required,
+        * and the TSC counter resets must not occur asynchronously.
+        */
        if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_HYPERVISOR) ||
            !boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_NONSTOP_TSC) ||
-           !boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_TSC_ADJUST))
+           !boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_TSC_ADJUST) ||
+           tsc_async_resets)
                return;
 
        cpuid(ART_CPUID_LEAF, &art_to_tsc_denominator,