Commit d9a5c0a4 authored by Thomas Gleixner's avatar Thomas Gleixner Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] i386: Prevent early access to TSC to avoid crash on TSCless systems

commit f9690982 removed the check for
cpu_khz from sched_clock(), which prevented early access to the TSC by
non obvious magic.

This is harmless as long as the CPU has a TSC. On TSCless systems this
results in an illegal instruction trap.

Replace tsc_disabled and tsc_unstable by tsc_enabled, which is only set
when the tsc is available and not unstable.
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 8fb303c7
......@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@
#include "mach_timer.h"
static int tsc_enabled;
/*
* On some systems the TSC frequency does not
* change with the cpu frequency. So we need
......@@ -105,7 +107,7 @@ unsigned long long sched_clock(void)
/*
* Fall back to jiffies if there's no TSC available:
*/
if (tsc_unstable || unlikely(tsc_disable))
if (unlikely(!tsc_enabled))
/* No locking but a rare wrong value is not a big deal: */
return (jiffies_64 - INITIAL_JIFFIES) * (1000000000 / HZ);
......@@ -283,6 +285,7 @@ void mark_tsc_unstable(void)
{
if (!tsc_unstable) {
tsc_unstable = 1;
tsc_enabled = 0;
/* Can be called before registration */
if (clocksource_tsc.mult)
clocksource_change_rating(&clocksource_tsc, 0);
......@@ -383,7 +386,9 @@ void __init tsc_init(void)
if (check_tsc_unstable()) {
clocksource_tsc.rating = 0;
clocksource_tsc.flags &= ~CLOCK_SOURCE_IS_CONTINUOUS;
}
} else
tsc_enabled = 1;
clocksource_register(&clocksource_tsc);
return;
......
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