TSC marked unstable on suspend and resume

[David Fries <david@fries.net>]

I'm getting TSC marked as unsable on hibernate to disk with
2.6.29-rc3.  The last kernel I ran 2.6.24.4 ran 300+ days without a
problem and does not loose TSC on hibernate.

I'm hibernating with `echo disk > /sys/power/state`.
These look like the relavant messages,

CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=c0379000 soft=c0378000
PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 10, 4096 bytes)
Fast TSC calibration using PIT
Detected 300.705 MHz processor.
Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency.. 601.41 BogoMIPS (lpj=300705)
hibernate to disk,
Restarting tasks ... done.
Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = 499883531 ns)

another reboot,
Restarting tasks ... done.
Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = 499883531 ns)

another reboot,
Freezing user space processes ... (elapsed 0.07 seconds) done.
Freezing remaining freezable tasks ... (elapsed 0.00 seconds) done.
PM: Shrinking memory...  ^H-<4>Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = 78961880 ns)
^H\^H|^H/^Hdone (34745 pages freed)



I didn't spot the problem until I raw the HP48 calculator emulator x48
and it was running like a dog, but the same binary ran fine on my
other systems.  It was looping on gettimeofday intending to delay 2us,
but was getting 1ms when TSC wasn't available.

On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 10:02:39PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> What does this tool output:
> 
>  http://people.redhat.com/mingo/time-warp-test/time-warp-test.c

time-warp-test is getting the number of CPUs wrong here, trivial
patch included.

./time-warp-test  
2 CPUs, running 2 parallel test-tasks.

grep processor /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
model name      : AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor


--- time-warp-test.c.orig	2009-02-19 20:52:40.000000000 -0600
+++ time-warp-test.c	2009-02-19 21:32:58.000000000 -0600
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 	unsigned long *shared;
 	unsigned long cpus, tasks;
 
-	cpus = system("exit `grep processor /proc/cpuinfo  | wc -l`");
+	cpus = system("exit `grep ^processor /proc/cpuinfo  | wc -l`");
 	cpus = WEXITSTATUS(cpus);
 
 	if (argc > 2) {




With any optimizations, -O or -O1 or -O2 I don't get any status
output, with -O0 I get,

./time-warp-test 
1 CPUs, running 1 parallel test-tasks.
checking for time-warps via:
- read time stamp counter (RDTSC) instruction (cycle resolution)

 | TSC: 0.82us, fail:0 /


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