On Mon, 13 Mar 2017, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> Subhransu reported that convert_art_to_tsc() isn't working for him.
>
> It turns out that because of commit:
>
> 57779dc2b3b7 ("x86, tsc: Skip refined tsc calibration on systems with
> reliable TSC")
That's the wrong culprit. The problem was introduced with the ART support
patches. I fixed the changelog up.
> Systems with TSC_KNOWN_FREQ (due to having CPUID.15h) will not run the
> refined calibration thing, and then forget to set the ART clocksource
> relation.
>
> We cannot set the ART relation prior to running the refined calibration;
> therefore duplicate the lines.
>
> XXX: should we clear this in mark_tsc_unstable() ?
It's already handled. get_device_system_timestamp() which convert ART to
clock monotonic checks whether the timekeeper clocksource is the same as
the correlated ART clocksource, i.e. TSC. So when timekeeping switches away
from TSC get_device_system_timestamp() returns -ENODEV.
Thanks,
tglx
