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Currently, the notsc kernel parameter disables the use of the TSC by sched_clock(). However, this parameter does not prevent the kernel from accessing tsc in other places. The only rationale to boot with notsc is to avoid timing discrepancies on multi-socket systems where TSC are not properly synchronized, and thus exclude TSC from being used for time keeping. But that prevents using TSC as sched_clock() as well, which is not necessary as the core sched_clock() implementation can handle non synchronized TSC based sched clocks just fine. However, there is another method to solve the above problem: booting with tsc=unstable parameter. This parameter allows sched_clock() to use TSC and just excludes it from timekeeping. So there is no real reason to keep notsc, but for compatibility reasons the parameter has to stay. Make it behave like 'tsc=unstable' instead. [ tglx: Massaged changelog ] Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Dou Liyang <douly.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: steven.sistare@oracle.com Cc: daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com Cc: linux@armlinux.org.uk Cc: schwidefsky@de.ibm.com Cc: heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com Cc: john.stultz@linaro.org Cc: sboyd@codeaurora.org Cc: hpa@zytor.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: prarit@redhat.com Cc: feng.tang@intel.com Cc: pmladek@suse.com Cc: gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com Cc: jgross@suse.com Cc: pbonzini@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180719205545.16512-12-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com |
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.