Re: [GIT pull] x86/timers for 4.10

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Thu Feb 09 2017 - 10:07:41 EST


On Wed, 8 Feb 2017, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-02-08 at 12:44 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Mon, 6 Feb 2017, Olof Johansson wrote:
> > > [ 0.177102] [Firmware Bug]: TSC ADJUST differs: Reference CPU0:
> > > -6495898515190607 CPU1: -6495898517158354
> >
> > Yay, another "clever" BIOS ....
>
> Oh yeah, that reminds me...
>
> I met one such box, and the adjustment code did salvage it, but I had
> to cheat a little for it to do so reliably, as it would sometimes still
> see a delta of 1 or 2 whole cycles, and hand me a useless wreck instead
> quick like bunny big box.

Can you share your cheatery ?

Thanks,

tglx