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    [PATCH] fix jiffies clocksource inittime · 98de9e3b
    john stultz authored
    In debugging a problem w/ the -rt tree, I noticed that on systems that mark
    the tsc as unstable before it is registered, the TSC would still be
    selected and used for a short period of time.  Digging in it looks to be a
    result of the mix of the clocksource list changes and my clocksource
    initialization changes.
    
    With the -rt tree, using a bad TSC, even for a short period of time can
    results in a hang at boot.  I was not able to reproduce this hang w/
    mainline, but I'm not completely certain that someone won't trip on it.
    
    This patch resolves the issue by initializing the jiffies clocksource
    earlier so a bad TSC won't get selected just because nothing else is yet
    registered.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
    Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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