On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 13:50 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> In older kernels arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_pm.c:verify_pmtmr_rate
> contained a check for sensible PMTMR rate and disabled that clocksource
> if it was found to be out of spec[0]. This check seems to have been lost
> in the transition to drivers/clocksource/acpi_pm.c, the removal is in
> 61743fe445213b87fb55a389c8d073785323ca3e "Time: i386 Conversion - part
> 4: Remove Old timer_opts Code"[1] and the check is not present in the
> replacement 5d0cf410e94b1f1ff852c3f210d22cc6c5a27ffa "Time: i386
> Clocksource Drivers"[2].
Fedora has a bug covering this:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211902
> Is there a specific reason the check was removed (I couldn't see on in
> the archives) or was it simply overlooked? Without it I need to pass
> clocksource=tsc to have 2.6.18 work correctly on an older K6 system with
> an Aladdin chipset (will dig out the precise details if required). Would
> a patch to reintroduce the check be acceptable or would some sort of
> blacklist based solution be more acceptable?
If I recall correctly, it was pulled because there was some question as
to if it was actually needed (x86_64 didn't need it) and it slows down
the boot time (although not by much).
I'm fine just re-adding it. Although if the number of affected systems
are small we could just blacklist it (Ian, mind sending dmidecode
output?).
Andi, your thoughts?
thanks
-john
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