Commit e1474e2d authored Jul 28, 2005 by Dave Hansen Committed by Linus Torvalds Jul 28, 2005

[PATCH] re-disable TSC on NUMAQ



Somewhere recently, the TSC got re-enabled for timekeeping on NUMAQ
machines.  However, the hardware makes these get unsynchronized quite
badly.  So badly, in fact, that the code to fix up the skew can just hang
on boot.

This patch re-disables them.  It's nicely confined to the numaq.c file.  It
would be great if this could make it into 2.6.13, I think it counts as a
bugfix.

Tested on a 16-proc 4-node NUMAQ.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

parent 78fa74a2

arch/i386/kernel/numaq.c

+9 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
		#include <linux/nodemask.h>
		#include <asm/numaq.h>
		#include <asm/topology.h>
		#include <asm/processor.h>

		#define MB_TO_PAGES(addr) ((addr) << (20 - PAGE_SHIFT))

		@@ -77,3 +78,11 @@ int __init get_memcfg_numaq(void)
		smp_dump_qct();
		return 1;
		}

		static int __init numaq_dsc_disable(void)
		{
		printk(KERN_DEBUG "NUMAQ: disabling TSC\n");
		tsc_disable = 1;
		return 0;
		}
		core_initcall(numaq_dsc_disable);

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