The watchdog implementation excludes low res / non continuous
clocksources from being selected as a watchdog reference
unintentionally.
Allow using jiffies/PIT as a watchdog reference as long as no better
clocksource is available. This is necessary to detect TSC breakage on
systems, which have no pmtimer/hpet.
The main goal of the initial patch (preventing to switch to highres/nohz
when no reliable fallback clocksource is available) is still guaranteed
by the checks in clocksource_watchdog().
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
diff --git a/kernel/time/clocksource.c b/kernel/time/clocksource.c
index 5b0e46b..fe5c7db 100644
--- a/kernel/time/clocksource.c
+++ b/kernel/time/clocksource.c
@@ -151,7 +151,8 @@ static void clocksource_check_watchdog(struct clocksource
*cs)
watchdog_timer.expires = jiffies + WATCHDOG_INTERVAL;
add_timer(&watchdog_timer);
}
- } else if (cs->flags & CLOCK_SOURCE_IS_CONTINUOUS) {
+ } else {
+ if (cs->flags & CLOCK_SOURCE_IS_CONTINUOUS)
cs->flags |= CLOCK_SOURCE_VALID_FOR_HRES;
if (!watchdog || cs->rating > watchdog->rating) {
-
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