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Olof reported that on a machine which has a BIOS wreckaged TSC the timestamps in dmesg are making a large jump because the TSC value is jumping forward after resetting the TSC ADJUST register to a sane value. This can be avoided by calling the TSC ADJUST saniziting function before initializing the per cpu sched clock machinery. That takes the offset into account and avoid the time jump. What cannot be avoided is that the 'Firmware Bug' warnings on the secondary CPUs are printed with the large time offsets because it would be too much effort and ugly hackery to print those warnings into a buffer and emit them after the adjustemt on the starting CPUs. It's a firmware bug and should be fixed in firmware. The weird timestamps are collateral damage and just illustrate the sillyness of the BIOS folks: [ 0.397445] smp: Bringing up secondary CPUs ... [ 0.402100] x86: Booting SMP configuration: [ 0.406343] .... node #0, CPUs: #1 [1265776479.930667] [Firmware Bug]: TSC ADJUST differs: Reference CPU0: -2978888639075328 CPU1: -2978888639183101 [1265776479.944664] TSC ADJUST synchronize: Reference CPU0: 0 CPU1: -2978888639183101 [ 0.508119] #2 [1265776480.032346] [Firmware Bug]: TSC ADJUST differs: Reference CPU0: -2978888639075328 CPU2: -2978888639183677 [1265776480.044192] TSC ADJUST synchronize: Reference CPU0: 0 CPU2: -2978888639183677 [ 0.607643] #3 [1265776480.131874] [Firmware Bug]: TSC ADJUST differs: Reference CPU0: -2978888639075328 CPU3: -2978888639184530 [1265776480.143720] TSC ADJUST synchronize: Reference CPU0: 0 CPU3: -2978888639184530 [ 0.707108] smp: Brought up 1 node, 4 CPUs [ 0.711271] smpboot: Total of 4 processors activated (21698.88 BogoMIPS) Reported-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170209151231.411460506@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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