On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 05:49:53PM +0300, Martin Peres wrote:

> Good to know. Is there a way to disable this behaviour, as a workaround for
> our CI system until a proper fix lands? We already pushed locally the revert
> for this patch, but that may affect other platforms which do not exhibit the
> problem.

Blergh, so the patch is correct, but the __gtod_offset calculation is
fed with absolute crap numbers due to 'circumstances' and then using it
ends up being worse than not using it.

Something like the below could be a work-around, but let me see if I
can't fix things better.

---
 arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
index 714dfba..8ab883a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
@@ -374,6 +374,8 @@ static int __init tsc_setup(char *str)
                tsc_clocksource_reliable = 1;
        if (!strncmp(str, "noirqtime", 9))
                no_sched_irq_time = 1;
+       if (!strcmp(str, "unstable"))
+               mark_tsc_unstable("boot parameter");
        return 1;
 }
 
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