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Commit 41e7864a authored by mike.travis@hpe.com's avatar mike.travis@hpe.com Committed by Thomas Gleixner
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x86/tsc: Drastically reduce the number of firmware bug warnings



Prior to the TSC ADJUST MSR being available, the method to set TSC's in
sync with each other naturally caused a small skew between cpu threads.
This was NOT a firmware bug at the time so introducing a whole avalanche
of alarming warning messages might cause unnecessary concern and customer
complaints. (Example: >3000 msgs in a 32 socket Skylake system.)

Simply report the warning condition, if possible do the necessary fixes,
and move on.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Travis <mike.travis@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDimitri Sivanich <dimitri.sivanich@hpe.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarRuss Anderson <russ.anderson@hpe.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Banman <andrew.banman@hpe.com>
Cc: Bin Gao <bin.gao@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171012163202.175062400@stormcage.americas.sgi.com
parent 9514ecec
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