Re: [PATCH] x86/PCI: Convert force_disable_hpet() to standard quirk

From: Zhang Rui
Date: Wed Dec 02 2020 - 02:29:15 EST


On Mon, 2020-11-30 at 20:21 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Feng,
>
> On Fri, Nov 27 2020 at 14:11, Feng Tang wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 12:27:34AM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > On Thu, Nov 26 2020 at 09:24, Feng Tang wrote:
> > > Yes, that can happen. But OTOH, we should start to think about
> > > the
> > > requirements for using the TSC watchdog.

My original proposal is to disable jiffies and refined-jiffies as the
clocksource watchdog, because they are not reliable and it's better to
use clocksource that has a hardware counter as watchdog, like the patch
below, which I didn't sent out for upstream.