[PATCH] boot time parameter to turn of TSC usage

[Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>]

For machines that don't want to cooperate and have bad TSC counter and/or
change CPU frequency without change support.

This fixes the problem on Jerry Cooperstein's PIII laptop.
Could be useful for other people and tech support situations.

Please consider applying.
Thanks
Steve


diff -Nru a/arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c b/arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c	Tue Mar 18 15:28:10 2003
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c	Tue Mar 18 15:28:10 2003
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 #include <asm/processor.h>
 
 int tsc_disable __initdata = 0;
+static int tsc_clock_disable __initdata = 0;
 
 extern spinlock_t i8253_lock;
 
@@ -241,6 +242,13 @@
 };
 #endif
 
+/* Don't use TSC for time of day clock */
+static int __init tsc_noclock_setup(char *str)
+{
+	tsc_clock_disable = 1;
+	return 1;
+}
+__setup("notsclock", tsc_noclock_setup);
 
 static int init_tsc(void)
 {
@@ -273,7 +281,7 @@
 	cpufreq_register_notifier(&time_cpufreq_notifier_block, CPUFREQ_TRANSITION_NOTIFIER);
 #endif
 
-	if (cpu_has_tsc) {
+	if (cpu_has_tsc && !tsc_clock_disable) {
 		unsigned long tsc_quotient = calibrate_tsc();
 		if (tsc_quotient) {
 			fast_gettimeoffset_quotient = tsc_quotient;