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Peter Zijlstra authored
Without TSC_KNOWN_FREQ the TSC clocksource is registered so late that the kernel first switches to the HPET. Using HPET on large CPU count machines is undesirable. Therefore register a tsc-early clocksource using the preliminary tsc_khz from quick calibration. Then when the final TSC calibration is done, it can switch to the tuned frequency. The only notably problem is that the real tsc clocksource must be marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VALID_FOR_HRES, otherwise it will not be selected when unregistering tsc-early. tsc-early cannot be left registered, because then the clocksource code would fall back to it when we tsc clocksource is marked unstable later. Signed-off-by:
Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: len.brown@intel.com Cc: rui.zhang@intel.com Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171222092243.431585460@infradead.org
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