When the TSC calibration fails then TSC is still used in sched_clock(). Disable it completely in that case. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: stable@kernel.org
@@ -413,6 +413,11 @@ void __init tsc_init(void)
if (!cpu_khz) {
mark_tsc_unstable("could not calculate TSC khz");
+ /*
+ * We need to disable the TSC completely in this case
+ * to prevent sched_clock() from using it.
+ */
+ tsc_disabled = 1;
return;
}