TSC clock is broken on the latest real time kernel

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Issue

  • TSC clock is broken on the latest real time kernel
  • TSC is not working correctly at every boot
kernel: tsc: Detected 2600.000 MHz processor
kernel: TSC synchronization [CPU#0 -> CPU#1]:
kernel: Measured 115899160216746 cycles TSC warp between CPUs, turning off TSC clock.
kernel: tsc: Marking TSC unstable due to check_tsc_sync_source failed
  • TSC is not available
# cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/available_clocksource 
hpet acpi_pm 

# cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/current_clocksource   
hpet

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise MRG Realtime 2.5
  • kernel-3.10.0-693.17.1.rt56.604.el6rt.x86_64
  • Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-7980XE CPU @ 2.60GHz
  • X299 chipset

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