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| author | Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> | 2014-10-15 10:12:07 -0700 |
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| committer | Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> | 2014-11-13 19:03:02 +0100 |
| commit | 4d54f12db93cc3ec3aaedd767b676f10ed237c98 (patch) | |
| tree | 10dabe7334c7dceb533dfb5af9082e43d2451222 /mm | |
| parent | 5bc8c3bd8e5784110da1e8c8aaff086672107a1d (diff) | |
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x86, apic: Handle a bad TSC more gracefully
commit b47dcbdc5161d3d5756f430191e2840d9b855492 upstream.
If the TSC is unusable or disabled, then this patch fixes:
- Confusion while trying to clear old APIC interrupts.
- Division by zero and incorrect programming of the TSC deadline
timer.
This fixes boot if the CPU has a TSC deadline timer but a missing or
broken TSC. The failure to boot can be observed with qemu using
-cpu qemu64,-tsc,+tsc-deadline
This also happens to me in nested KVM for unknown reasons.
With this patch, I can boot cleanly (although without a TSC).
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Bandan Das <bsd@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e2fa274e498c33988efac0ba8b7e3120f7f92d78.1413393027.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
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