ACK: [SRU][mantic:linux][PATCH 0/1] x86: performance: tsc: Extend watchdog check exemption to 4-Sockets platform

Jacob Martin jacob.martin at canonical.com
Tue Feb 27 15:27:32 UTC 2024


Acked-by: Jacob Martin <jacob.martin at canonical.com>

On 2/27/24 8:10 AM, Philip Cox wrote:
> 
> BugLink: BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2054699
> 
> SRU Justification:
> 
> [Impact]
> Fix tsc clocksource on 4 sockets x86 servers was wrongly
> judged as 'unstable' by 'jiffies' and other watchdogs,
> and disabled
> 
> [Fix]
> cherry-pick
>      233756a640be x86/tsc: Extend watchdog check exemption to 4-Sockets platform
> from upstream fixes this
> 
> [Test Plan]
> This has been tested by intel, and has been upstreamed for a while.
> 
> [Where problems could occur]
> This is a fairly narrow change, and extends a behaviour
> correction to cover up to 4-socket machines, rather
> than just 2 socket machines
> 
> --
> 
> 
> 
> Feng Tang (1):
>    x86/tsc: Extend watchdog check exemption to 4-Sockets platform
> 
>   arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 



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