Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 May 2013 17:29:49 +0200 (CEST) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86, clocksource, fix !CONFIG_CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG compile |
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On Mon, 27 May 2013, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
> > > On 05/27/2013 06:00 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > On Fri, 22 Feb 2013, Prarit Bhargava wrote: > > > >> If I explicitly disable the clocksource watchdog in the x86 Kconfig, > > > > And why do you want to do that? > > Hey Thomas, I was debugging something and stumbled across this. > > IIRC the issue was that there some weirdness on a series of new AMD systems and > unfortunately the watchdog would fire and switch clocksources on me :( That > resulted in me not being able to debug the HW because the clocksource I wanted > was no longer available.
tsc=reliable on the kernel command line kills the watchdog requirement.
Thanks,
tglx
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