Re: [RFC 2/2] x86, tsc: Enable clock for ealry printk timestamp

[Pavel Tatashin]

Hi Peter,

How about taking patches 1-4 and 7 ? I can work on patches 5 & 6
separetly to provide a better integration for x86, this can be decided
separetly but the other patches will enable early clock functionality
on arches where sched_clock() is available early.

Pavel
On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 11:52 AM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 03:55:42PM +0200, Petr Mladek wrote:
> > I wonder if we could get some cleaner integration into the timer and
> > printk code.
>
> Yes, these patches are particularly horrific..
>
> There were some earlier patches by Pavel Tatashin, which attempted do
> get things running earlier.
>
>   http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180209211143.16215-1-pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx
>
> I'm not entirely happy with that, but I never did get around to
> reviewing that last version :-( In particuarly, now that you made me
> look, I dislike his patch 6 almost as much as these patches.
>
> The idea was to get regular sched_clock() running earlier, not to botch
> some early_sched_clock() into it.
>
> Basically run calibrate_tsc() earlier (like _waaay_ earlier, it doesn't
> rely on anything other than CPUID) and if you have a recent part (with
> exception of SKX) you'll get a usable tsc rate (and TSC_RELIABLE) and
> things will work.
>
> If you have a dodgy part (sorry SKX), you'll just have to live with
> sched_clock starting late(r).
>
> Do not cobble things on the side, try and get the normal things running
> earlier.