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    [PATCH] clocksource: Fix thinko in watchdog selection · 948ac6d7
    Thomas Gleixner authored
    
    
    The watchdog implementation excludes low res / non continuous
    clocksources from being selected as a watchdog reference
    unintentionally.
    
    Allow using jiffies/PIT as a watchdog reference as long as no better
    clocksource is available. This is necessary to detect TSC breakage on
    systems, which have no pmtimer/hpet.
    
    The main goal of the initial patch (preventing to switch to highres/nohz
    when no reliable fallback clocksource is available) is still guaranteed
    by the checks in clocksource_watchdog().
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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