Re: [PATCH 00/10][RFC] Increased clocksource validation and cleanups

[Richard Cochran]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 10:22:11AM -0800, John Stultz wrote:
> Yea, I've not looked at the actual performance impact yet, but things
> like the read-time capping (which is in the hot path) could be put
> under a debug config. Thanks for the suggestion!

Having a broken clock is like having a broken memory card.  Both will
make your system behave very strangely.  Once you start having really
strange issues, you run a dedicated memory test.  That is why I would
expect to have clock validation as compile time option.

Thanks,
Richard
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