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x86/tsc: Add option to disable tsc clocksource watchdog
authorJuri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Thu, 7 Mar 2019 12:09:13 +0000 (13:09 +0100)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fri, 22 Mar 2019 13:14:58 +0000 (14:14 +0100)
commit0f0b7e1cc7abf8e1a8b301f2868379d611d05ae2
tree3a89ad3353ed398b71336b31fbd4856b99f87d92
parent9e98c678c2d6ae3a17cb2de55d17f69dddaa231b
x86/tsc: Add option to disable tsc clocksource watchdog

Clocksource watchdog has been found responsible for generating latency
spikes (in the 10-20 us range) when woken up to check for TSC stability.

Add an option to disable it at boot.

Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: bigeasy@linutronix.de
Cc: linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: bristot@redhat.com
Cc: williams@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190307120913.13168-1-juri.lelli@redhat.com
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c