linux/arch/x86
Pavel Tatashin fe9af81e52 x86/tsc: Redefine notsc to behave as tsc=unstable
Currently, the notsc kernel parameter disables the use of the TSC by
sched_clock(). However, this parameter does not prevent the kernel from
accessing tsc in other places.

The only rationale to boot with notsc is to avoid timing discrepancies on
multi-socket systems where TSC are not properly synchronized, and thus
exclude TSC from being used for time keeping. But that prevents using TSC
as sched_clock() as well, which is not necessary as the core sched_clock()
implementation can handle non synchronized TSC based sched clocks just
fine.

However, there is another method to solve the above problem: booting with
tsc=unstable parameter. This parameter allows sched_clock() to use TSC and
just excludes it from timekeeping.

So there is no real reason to keep notsc, but for compatibility reasons the
parameter has to stay. Make it behave like 'tsc=unstable' instead.

[ tglx: Massaged changelog ]

Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Dou Liyang <douly.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: steven.sistare@oracle.com
Cc: daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com
Cc: linux@armlinux.org.uk
Cc: schwidefsky@de.ibm.com
Cc: heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com
Cc: john.stultz@linaro.org
Cc: sboyd@codeaurora.org
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: prarit@redhat.com
Cc: feng.tang@intel.com
Cc: pmladek@suse.com
Cc: gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Cc: jgross@suse.com
Cc: pbonzini@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180719205545.16512-12-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com
2018-07-20 00:02:39 +02:00
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boot efi/x86: Fix mixed mode reboot loop by removing pointless call to PciIo->Attributes() 2018-07-11 13:15:21 +02:00
configs x86/unwind: Rename unwinder config options to 'CONFIG_UNWINDER_*' 2017-10-14 10:12:12 +02:00
crypto crypto: x86 - Add missing RETs 2018-07-01 23:33:20 +08:00
entry x86/entry/64/compat: Fix "x86/entry/64/compat: Preserve r8-r11 in int $0x80" 2018-06-27 09:35:40 +02:00
events treewide: kzalloc() -> kcalloc() 2018-06-12 16:19:22 -07:00
hyperv x86/hyper-v: Fix the circular dependency in IPI enlightenment 2018-07-06 12:32:59 +02:00
ia32 syscalls/x86: auto-create compat_sys_*() prototypes 2018-04-02 20:16:18 +02:00
include x86/alternatives, jumplabel: Use text_poke_early() before mm_init() 2018-07-20 00:02:38 +02:00
kernel x86/tsc: Redefine notsc to behave as tsc=unstable 2018-07-20 00:02:39 +02:00
kvm Miscellaneous bugfixes, plus a small patchlet related to Spectre v2. 2018-07-18 11:08:44 -07:00
lib libnvdimm for 4.18 2018-06-08 17:21:52 -07:00
math-emu License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
mm x86/mm: Clean up the printk()s in show_fault_oops() 2018-06-27 14:08:11 +02:00
net treewide: kmalloc() -> kmalloc_array() 2018-06-12 16:19:22 -07:00
oprofile x86/oprofile: Fix bogus GCC-8 warning in nmi_setup() 2018-02-21 09:54:17 +01:00
pci treewide: kzalloc() -> kcalloc() 2018-06-12 16:19:22 -07:00
platform x86/platform/intel-mid: Remove per platform code 2018-07-03 13:08:21 +02:00
power x86/mm: Stop pretending pgtable_l5_enabled is a variable 2018-05-19 11:56:57 +02:00
purgatory x86/purgatory: add missing FORCE to Makefile target 2018-07-14 11:11:09 -07:00
ras License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
realmode x86-64/realmode: Add instruction suffix 2018-02-20 09:33:41 +01:00
tools x86: Treat R_X86_64_PLT32 as R_X86_64_PC32 2018-02-22 09:01:10 -08:00
um Kconfig updates for v4.18 2018-06-06 11:31:45 -07:00
video
xen xen: fixes for 4.18-rc5 2018-07-14 12:30:13 -07:00
.gitignore x86/build: Add arch/x86/tools/insn_decoder_test to .gitignore 2018-02-13 14:10:29 +01:00
Kbuild Merge branch 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-09-07 09:25:15 -07:00
Kconfig Kbuild: rename HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR config variable 2018-06-15 07:15:28 +09:00
Kconfig.cpu Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-03-25 07:36:02 -10:00
Kconfig.debug x86, nfit_test: Add unit test for memcpy_mcsafe() 2018-05-22 23:18:31 -07:00
Makefile Merge branch 'linus' into x86/urgent 2018-06-22 21:20:35 +02:00
Makefile_32.cpu License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
Makefile.um License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00