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On systems with two or fewer sockets, when the boot CPU has CONSTANT_TSC, NONSTOP_TSC, and TSC_ADJUST, clocksource watchdog verification of the TSC is disabled. This works well much of the time, but there is the occasional production-level system that meets all of these criteria, but which still has a TSC that skews significantly from atomic-clock time. This is usually attributed to a firmware or hardware fault. Yes, the various NTP daemons do express their opinions of userspace-to-atomic-clock time skew, but they put them in various places, depending on the daemon and distro in question. It would therefore be good for the kernel to have some clue that there is a problem. The old behavior of marking the TSC unstable is a non-starter because a great many workloads simply cannot tolerate the overheads and latencies of the various non-TSC clocksources. In addition, NTP-corrected systems sometimes can tolerate significant kernel-space time skew as long as the userspace time sources are within epsilon of atomic-clock time. Therefore, when watchdog verification of TSC is disabled, enable it for HPET and PMTMR (AKA ACPI PM timer). This provides the needed in-kernel time-skew diagnostic without degrading the system's performance. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Cc: <x86@kernel.org> Tested-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.