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-rw-r--r--arch/x86/Kconfig1
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c21
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 7fa17b5ce668..d08e061c187a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ config X86
select CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG
select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
select ARCH_CLOCKSOURCE_DATA
+ select CLOCKSOURCE_VALIDATE_LAST_CYCLE
select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST if X86_64 || (X86_32 && X86_LOCAL_APIC)
select GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL
select GENERIC_STRNCPY_FROM_USER
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
index 57e5ce126d5a..456c0e660c43 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
@@ -951,7 +951,7 @@ core_initcall(cpufreq_tsc);
static struct clocksource clocksource_tsc;
/*
- * We compare the TSC to the cycle_last value in the clocksource
+ * We used to compare the TSC to the cycle_last value in the clocksource
* structure to avoid a nasty time-warp. This can be observed in a
* very small window right after one CPU updated cycle_last under
* xtime/vsyscall_gtod lock and the other CPU reads a TSC value which
@@ -961,26 +961,23 @@ static struct clocksource clocksource_tsc;
* due to the unsigned delta calculation of the time keeping core
* code, which is necessary to support wrapping clocksources like pm
* timer.
+ *
+ * This sanity check is now done in the core timekeeping code.
+ * checking the result of read_tsc() - cycle_last for being negative.
+ * That works because CLOCKSOURCE_MASK(64) does not mask out any bit.
*/
static cycle_t read_tsc(struct clocksource *cs)
{
- cycle_t ret = (cycle_t)get_cycles();
-
- return ret >= clocksource_tsc.cycle_last ?
- ret : clocksource_tsc.cycle_last;
-}
-
-static void resume_tsc(struct clocksource *cs)
-{
- if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_NONSTOP_TSC_S3))
- clocksource_tsc.cycle_last = 0;
+ return (cycle_t)get_cycles();
}
+/*
+ * .mask MUST be CLOCKSOURCE_MASK(64). See comment above read_tsc()
+ */
static struct clocksource clocksource_tsc = {
.name = "tsc",
.rating = 300,
.read = read_tsc,
- .resume = resume_tsc,
.mask = CLOCKSOURCE_MASK(64),
.flags = CLOCK_SOURCE_IS_CONTINUOUS |
CLOCK_SOURCE_MUST_VERIFY,