[PATCH] x86_64: Don't try to synchronize the TSC over CPUs on Intel CPUs at boot.
They already do this in hardware and the Linux algorithm
actually adds errors.
Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Cc: rohit.seth@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/smpboot.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/smpboot.c
index e6af93b..9947285 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/smpboot.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/smpboot.c
@@ -335,7 +335,13 @@
static void __cpuinit tsc_sync_wait(void)
{
- if (notscsync || !cpu_has_tsc)
+ /*
+ * When the CPU has synchronized TSCs assume the BIOS
+ * or the hardware already synced. Otherwise we could
+ * mess up a possible perfect synchronization with a
+ * not-quite-perfect algorithm.
+ */
+ if (notscsync || !cpu_has_tsc || !unsynchronized_tsc())
return;
sync_tsc(0);
}
