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| author | john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> | 2006-10-17 07:09:32 (GMT) |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-10-17 15:18:42 (GMT) |
| commit | 3f4a0b917ce72ef47e438d354c433eb645218e87 (patch) | |
| tree | 82695f890785cfe1bd14303ce04453a16bd99c01 /arch/i386/kernel/i8253.c | |
| parent | b9f5d8040b470e4f74e3266ece2969ef06d0f8aa (diff) | |
| download | linux-3f4a0b917ce72ef47e438d354c433eb645218e87.tar.xz | |
[PATCH] i386 Time: Avoid PIT SMP lockups
Avoid possible PIT livelock issues seen on SMP systems (and reported by
Andi), by not allowing it as a clocksource on SMP boxes.
However, since the PIT may no longer be present, we have to properly handle
the cases where SMP systems have TSC skew and fall back from the TSC.
Since the PIT isn't there, it would "fall back" to the TSC again. So this
changes the jiffies rating to 1, and the TSC-bad rating value to 0.
Thus you will get the following behavior priority on i386 systems:
tsc [if present & stable]
hpet [if present]
cyclone [if present]
acpi_pm [if present]
pit [if UP]
jiffies
Rather then the current more complicated:
tsc [if present & stable]
hpet [if present]
cyclone [if present]
acpi_pm [if present]
pit [if cpus < 4]
tsc [if present & unstable]
jiffies
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/i386/kernel/i8253.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/i386/kernel/i8253.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/i8253.c b/arch/i386/kernel/i8253.c index 477b24d..9a0060b 100644 --- a/arch/i386/kernel/i8253.c +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/i8253.c @@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ static struct clocksource clocksource_pit = { static int __init init_pit_clocksource(void) { - if (num_possible_cpus() > 4) /* PIT does not scale! */ + if (num_possible_cpus() > 1) /* PIT does not scale! */ return 0; clocksource_pit.mult = clocksource_hz2mult(CLOCK_TICK_RATE, 20); |