Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.1 013/219] x86/tsc: Use CPUID.0x16 to calculate missing crystal frequency

[Sasha Levin]

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@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > From: Daniel Drake <drake@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > [ 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!

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Thanks,
Sasha