The patch titled
     fix jiffies clocksource inittime
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     fix-jiffies-clocksource-inittime.patch

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Subject: fix jiffies clocksource inittime
From: john stultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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: John Stultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---

 kernel/time/jiffies.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN kernel/time/jiffies.c~fix-jiffies-clocksource-inittime 
kernel/time/jiffies.c
--- a/kernel/time/jiffies.c~fix-jiffies-clocksource-inittime
+++ a/kernel/time/jiffies.c
@@ -69,4 +69,4 @@ static int __init init_jiffies_clocksour
        return clocksource_register(&clocksource_jiffies);
 }
 
-module_init(init_jiffies_clocksource);
+core_initcall(init_jiffies_clocksource);
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from [EMAIL PROTECTED] are

origin.patch
fix-jiffies-clocksource-inittime.patch
convert-h8-300-to-generic-timekeeping.patch
v850-generic-timekeeping-conversion.patch
optimize-timespec_trunc.patch
time-smp-friendly-alignment-of-struct-clocksource.patch
move-timekeeping-code-to-timekeepingc.patch
move-timekeeping-code-to-timekeepingc-fix.patch
ignore-stolen-time-in-the-softlockup-watchdog.patch
declare-struct-ktime.patch
clocksource-arm-initialize-list-value.patch
clocksource-parisc-initialize-list-value.patch
clocksource-avr32-initialize-list-value.patch
clocksource-mips-initialize-list-value.patch
clocksource-i386-initialize-list-value.patch
clocksource-x86_64-initialize-list-value.patch
clocksource-s390-initialize-list-value.patch
clocksource-driver-initialize-list-value.patch
clocksource-refactor-duplicate-registration-checking.patch

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