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
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
index 3fae238..aab0c82 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
@@ -283,6 +283,7 @@ int __init notsc_setup(char *str)
__setup("notsc", notsc_setup);
static int no_sched_irq_time;
+static int no_tsc_watchdog;
static int __init tsc_setup(char *str)
{
@@ -292,6 +293,8 @@ static int __init tsc_setup(char *str)
no_sched_irq_time = 1;
if (!strcmp(str, "unstable"))
mark_tsc_unstable("boot parameter");
+ if (!strcmp(str, "nowatchdog"))
+ no_tsc_watchdog = 1;
return 1;
}
@@ -1349,7 +1352,7 @@ static int __init init_tsc_clocksource(void)
if (tsc_unstable)
goto unreg;
- if (tsc_clocksource_reliable)
+ if (tsc_clocksource_reliable || no_tsc_watchdog)
clocksource_tsc.flags &= ~CLOCK_SOURCE_MUST_VERIFY;
if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_NONSTOP_TSC_S3))