If we cannot calibrate TSC via MSR based calibration try_msr_calibrate_tsc() stores zero to fast_calibrate and returns that to the caller. This value gets then propagated further to clockevents code resulting division by zero oops like the one below:
divide error: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP Modules linked in: CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G W 3.13.0+ #47 task: ffff880075508000 ti: ffff880075506000 task.ti: ffff880075506000 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff810aec14>] [<ffffffff810aec14>] clockevents_config.part.3+0x24/0xa0 RSP: 0000:ffff880075507e58 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: ffffffffffffffff RBX: ffff880079c0cd80 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffffffffffffff RBP: ffff880075507e70 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 00000000000000be R10: 00000000000000bd R11: 0000000000000003 R12: 000000000000b008 R13: 0000000000000008 R14: 000000000000b010 R15: 0000000000000000 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff880079c00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b CR2: ffff880079fff000 CR3: 0000000001c0b000 CR4: 00000000001006f0 Stack: ffff880079c0cd80 000000000000b008 0000000000000008 ffff880075507e88 ffffffff810aecb0 ffff880079c0cd80 ffff880075507e98 ffffffff81030168 ffff880075507ed8 ffffffff81d1104f 00000000000000c3 0000000000000000 Call Trace: [<ffffffff810aecb0>] clockevents_config_and_register+0x20/0x30 [<ffffffff81030168>] setup_APIC_timer+0xc8/0xd0 [<ffffffff81d1104f>] setup_boot_APIC_clock+0x4cc/0x4d8 [<ffffffff81d0f5de>] native_smp_prepare_cpus+0x3dd/0x3f0 [<ffffffff81d02ee9>] kernel_init_freeable+0xc3/0x205 [<ffffffff8177c910>] ? rest_init+0x90/0x90 [<ffffffff8177c91e>] kernel_init+0xe/0x120 [<ffffffff8178deec>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0 [<ffffffff8177c910>] ? rest_init+0x90/0x90 Prevent this from happening by falling back to normal TSC calibration if MSR based one fails. Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerb...@linux.intel.com> --- Changes to v2: split the patch into two as suggested by Ingo. arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c index 19e5adb49a27..56facfc54575 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c @@ -655,10 +655,11 @@ unsigned long native_calibrate_tsc(void) local_irq_save(flags); i = try_msr_calibrate_tsc(&fast_calibrate); local_irq_restore(flags); - if (i >= 0) { - if (i == 0) - pr_warn("Fast TSC calibration using MSR failed\n"); + if (i > 0) { return fast_calibrate; + } else if (i == 0) { + pr_warn("Fast TSC calibration using MSR failed\n"); + /* Continue with the normal calibration */ } local_irq_save(flags); -- 1.8.5.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/