linux/kernel/time/jiffies.c
john stultz 3f4a0b917c [PATCH] i386 Time: Avoid PIT SMP lockups
Avoid possible PIT livelock issues seen on SMP systems (and reported by
Andi), by not allowing it as a clocksource on SMP boxes.

However, since the PIT may no longer be present, we have to properly handle
the cases where SMP systems have TSC skew and fall back from the TSC.
Since the PIT isn't there, it would "fall back" to the TSC again.  So this
changes the jiffies rating to 1, and the TSC-bad rating value to 0.

Thus you will get the following behavior priority on i386 systems:

tsc		[if present & stable]
hpet		[if present]
cyclone		[if present]
acpi_pm		[if present]
pit		[if UP]
jiffies

Rather then the current more complicated:
tsc		[if present & stable]
hpet		[if present]
cyclone		[if present]
acpi_pm		[if present]
pit		[if cpus < 4]
tsc		[if present & unstable]
jiffies

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-17 08:18:42 -07:00

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/***********************************************************************
* linux/kernel/time/jiffies.c
*
* This file contains the jiffies based clocksource.
*
* Copyright (C) 2004, 2005 IBM, John Stultz (johnstul@us.ibm.com)
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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*
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************************************************************************/
#include <linux/clocksource.h>
#include <linux/jiffies.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
/* The Jiffies based clocksource is the lowest common
* denominator clock source which should function on
* all systems. It has the same coarse resolution as
* the timer interrupt frequency HZ and it suffers
* inaccuracies caused by missed or lost timer
* interrupts and the inability for the timer
* interrupt hardware to accuratly tick at the
* requested HZ value. It is also not reccomended
* for "tick-less" systems.
*/
#define NSEC_PER_JIFFY ((u32)((((u64)NSEC_PER_SEC)<<8)/ACTHZ))
/* Since jiffies uses a simple NSEC_PER_JIFFY multiplier
* conversion, the .shift value could be zero. However
* this would make NTP adjustments impossible as they are
* in units of 1/2^.shift. Thus we use JIFFIES_SHIFT to
* shift both the nominator and denominator the same
* amount, and give ntp adjustments in units of 1/2^8
*
* The value 8 is somewhat carefully chosen, as anything
* larger can result in overflows. NSEC_PER_JIFFY grows as
* HZ shrinks, so values greater then 8 overflow 32bits when
* HZ=100.
*/
#define JIFFIES_SHIFT 8
static cycle_t jiffies_read(void)
{
return (cycle_t) jiffies;
}
struct clocksource clocksource_jiffies = {
.name = "jiffies",
.rating = 1, /* lowest valid rating*/
.read = jiffies_read,
.mask = 0xffffffff, /*32bits*/
.mult = NSEC_PER_JIFFY << JIFFIES_SHIFT, /* details above */
.shift = JIFFIES_SHIFT,
.is_continuous = 0, /* tick based, not free running */
};
static int __init init_jiffies_clocksource(void)
{
return clocksource_register(&clocksource_jiffies);
}
module_init(init_jiffies_clocksource);