linux/kernel/time/jiffies.c
john stultz 98de9e3ba2 [PATCH] fix jiffies clocksource inittime
In debugging a problem w/ the -rt tree, I noticed that on systems that mark
the tsc as unstable before it is registered, the TSC would still be
selected and used for a short period of time.  Digging in it looks to be a
result of the mix of the clocksource list changes and my clocksource
initialization changes.

With the -rt tree, using a bad TSC, even for a short period of time can
results in a hang at boot.  I was not able to reproduce this hang w/
mainline, but I'm not completely certain that someone won't trip on it.

This patch resolves the issue by initializing the jiffies clocksource
earlier so a bad TSC won't get selected just because nothing else is yet
registered.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-04 21:12:47 -07:00

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/***********************************************************************
* linux/kernel/time/jiffies.c
*
* This file contains the jiffies based clocksource.
*
* Copyright (C) 2004, 2005 IBM, John Stultz (johnstul@us.ibm.com)
*
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************************************************************************/
#include <linux/clocksource.h>
#include <linux/jiffies.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
/* The Jiffies based clocksource is the lowest common
* denominator clock source which should function on
* all systems. It has the same coarse resolution as
* the timer interrupt frequency HZ and it suffers
* inaccuracies caused by missed or lost timer
* interrupts and the inability for the timer
* interrupt hardware to accuratly tick at the
* requested HZ value. It is also not reccomended
* for "tick-less" systems.
*/
#define NSEC_PER_JIFFY ((u32)((((u64)NSEC_PER_SEC)<<8)/ACTHZ))
/* Since jiffies uses a simple NSEC_PER_JIFFY multiplier
* conversion, the .shift value could be zero. However
* this would make NTP adjustments impossible as they are
* in units of 1/2^.shift. Thus we use JIFFIES_SHIFT to
* shift both the nominator and denominator the same
* amount, and give ntp adjustments in units of 1/2^8
*
* The value 8 is somewhat carefully chosen, as anything
* larger can result in overflows. NSEC_PER_JIFFY grows as
* HZ shrinks, so values greater then 8 overflow 32bits when
* HZ=100.
*/
#define JIFFIES_SHIFT 8
static cycle_t jiffies_read(void)
{
return (cycle_t) jiffies;
}
struct clocksource clocksource_jiffies = {
.name = "jiffies",
.rating = 1, /* lowest valid rating*/
.read = jiffies_read,
.mask = 0xffffffff, /*32bits*/
.mult = NSEC_PER_JIFFY << JIFFIES_SHIFT, /* details above */
.shift = JIFFIES_SHIFT,
};
static int __init init_jiffies_clocksource(void)
{
return clocksource_register(&clocksource_jiffies);
}
core_initcall(init_jiffies_clocksource);