Re: [PATCH] x86, clocksource, fix !CONFIG_CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOGcompile

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Mon May 27 2013 - 11:30:02 EST


On Mon, 27 May 2013, Prarit Bhargava wrote:

>
>
> On 05/27/2013 06:00 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Fri, 22 Feb 2013, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
> >
> >> If I explicitly disable the clocksource watchdog in the x86 Kconfig,
> >
> > And why do you want to do that?
>
> Hey Thomas, I was debugging something and stumbled across this.
>
> IIRC the issue was that there some weirdness on a series of new AMD systems and
> unfortunately the watchdog would fire and switch clocksources on me :( That
> resulted in me not being able to debug the HW because the clocksource I wanted
> was no longer available.

tsc=reliable on the kernel command line kills the watchdog
requirement.

Thanks,

tglx
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