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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-07-05 23:08:07 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-07-05 23:08:07 -0700
commitea2aca084ba82aaf7c148d04914ceed8758ce08a (patch)
treedcb3f4f849cf48deac2dd3bafd5c2cd2f0e7dc79 /arch/x86/kernel/tsc_32.c
parentf3032be921cd126615ce3bfd7084e3d319f3f892 (diff)
parentc5a78ac00c400df29645e59938700301efb371d0 (diff)
Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts: Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt drivers/net/wan/hdlc_fr.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-4965.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/tsc_32.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/tsc_32.c18
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc_32.c
index 068759db63dd..65b70637ad97 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc_32.c
@@ -14,7 +14,10 @@
#include "mach_timer.h"
-static int tsc_disabled;
+/* native_sched_clock() is called before tsc_init(), so
+ we must start with the TSC soft disabled to prevent
+ erroneous rdtsc usage on !cpu_has_tsc processors */
+static int tsc_disabled = -1;
/*
* On some systems the TSC frequency does not
@@ -402,25 +405,20 @@ void __init tsc_init(void)
{
int cpu;
- if (!cpu_has_tsc || tsc_disabled) {
- /* Disable the TSC in case of !cpu_has_tsc */
- tsc_disabled = 1;
+ if (!cpu_has_tsc || tsc_disabled > 0)
return;
- }
cpu_khz = calculate_cpu_khz();
tsc_khz = cpu_khz;
if (!cpu_khz) {
mark_tsc_unstable("could not calculate TSC khz");
- /*
- * We need to disable the TSC completely in this case
- * to prevent sched_clock() from using it.
- */
- tsc_disabled = 1;
return;
}
+ /* now allow native_sched_clock() to use rdtsc */
+ tsc_disabled = 0;
+
printk("Detected %lu.%03lu MHz processor.\n",
(unsigned long)cpu_khz / 1000,
(unsigned long)cpu_khz % 1000);