IA64: Turn on CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_CLOCK
authorTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:29:17 +0000 (10:29 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:36:21 +0000 (16:36 -0800)
commite377565b19b465b307c7924438b768517dab8a6a
treef920848b6701c97d42f1efc9a8db7f3bb67fae35
parent42e54f6093af41dbb7a9651cab819b05bb9cd808
IA64: Turn on CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_CLOCK

commit 0773a6cf673316440999752e23f8c3d4f85e48b9 upstream.

sched_clock() on ia64 is based on ar.itc, so is never
completely synchronized between cpus. On some platforms
(e.g. certain models of SGI Altix) it may be running at
radically different frequencies.

Based on a patch from Dimitri Sivanich which set this
just for SN2 && GENERIC kernels ... it is needed for
all ia64 machines.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
arch/ia64/Kconfig