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Commit fe3cd484 authored by Feng Tang's avatar Feng Tang Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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x86/tsc: Add a timer to make sure TSC_adjust is always checked

commit c7719e79 upstream.

The TSC_ADJUST register is checked every time a CPU enters idle state, but
Thomas Gleixner mentioned there is still a caveat that a system won't enter
idle [1], either because it's too busy or configured purposely to not enter
idle.

Setup a periodic timer (every 10 minutes) to make sure the check is
happening on a regular base.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/875z286xtk.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de/

Fixes: 6e3cd952

 ("x86/hpet: Use another crystalball to evaluate HPET usability")
Requested-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarFeng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211117023751.24190-1-feng.tang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 957a203f
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