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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 23/23] clocksource tsc: add verify routine
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    On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 09:02 -0800, Daniel Walker wrote:
    > > well, this implementation is buggy in at least two ways:
    > >
    > > firstly, it allows a circular verification dependency in highres+dyntick
    > > mode between the jiffies and tsc clocksources.
    >
    > In the current implementation, it's only happens if the only clocks that
    > exist are "tsc" and "jiffies" which makes verification impossible
    > anyway .. It's unlikely, but it is possible , the fix is not that
    > complex.

    Wrong. You actually can verify against jiffies. Johns orginal code did
    this and mine does too. Actually this _IS_ necessary otherwise you can
    not detect that the BIOS changed the cpu freqeuncy behind the kernels
    back.

    The circular problem is only relevant when you switch to highres/nohz.

    tglx


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