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time/jiffies: Register jiffies clocksource before usage
authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Tue, 9 Jun 2026 15:14:45 +0000 (17:14 +0200)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:22:40 +0000 (15:22 +0200)
commitf24df84cbe05e4471c04ac4b921fc0340bbc7752
tree6cee01e32429a0e4763a02406e5bf8993f5d46c3
parentbb0c250e8e1132723795c1046442ceb01a5ed1b1
time/jiffies: Register jiffies clocksource before usage

Teddy reported that a XEN HVM has a long boot delay, which was bisected to
the recent enhancements to the negative motion detection. It turned out
that the jiffies clocksource is used in early boot before it is registered,
which leaves the max_delta_raw field at zero. That causes the read out to
be clamped to the max delta of 0, which means time is not making progress.

Cure it by ensuring that it is initialized before its first usage in
timekeeping_init().

Fixes: 76031d9536a0 ("clocksource: Make negative motion detection more robust")
Reported-by: Teddy Astie <teddy.astie@vates.tech>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Teddy Astie <teddy.astie@vates.tech>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/87y0gn3fve.ffs@fw13
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/1780914594.8631fc262581453bbf619ec5b2062170.19ea6c8227b000701b@vates.tech
kernel/time/jiffies.c