Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 21 Jul 2019 20:39:15 -0400 | From | Sasha Levin <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.1 013/219] x86/tsc: Use CPUID.0x16 to calculate missing crystal frequency |
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On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 10:56:59AM +0800, Daniel Drake wrote: >Hi, > >On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 9:38 PM Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> wrote: >> From: Daniel Drake <drake@endlessm.com> >> >> [ Upstream commit 604dc9170f2435d27da5039a3efd757dceadc684 ] > >In my opinion this is not stable kernel material. > >It alone does not solve a particular bug. It's part of a larger effort >to decrease usage of the 8254 PIT on modern platforms, which solves a >real problem (see "x86: skip PIT initialization on modern chipsets"), >but I'd conservatively recommend just leaving these patches out of the >stable tree. The problem has existed for a while without a >particularly wide impact, and there is a somewhat documented >workaround of changing BIOS settings.
I've dropped it, thanks!
-- Thanks, Sasha
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