linux-kernel - Re: lguest rebroken in 2.6.22-rc3-mm1

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Date:	Mon, 4 Jun 2007 10:28:20 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
Cc:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Subject: Re: lguest rebroken in 2.6.22-rc3-mm1

On Mon, 4 Jun 2007 12:19:33 -0500 Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com> wrote:

> On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 09:27:40AM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 17:38 -0500, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > > [    0.120007] EIP is at resync_sc_freq+0x4b/0x56
> > 
> > Hi Matt,
> > 
> > 	Thanks for the report!  Andrew should have these two patches queued,
> > but here they are again:
> > 
> > If you set tsc_disable (eg "notsc" on cmdline), sched-clock.c gives a
> > divide by zero on boot.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
> > 
> > ---
> >  arch/i386/kernel/sched-clock.c |    2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > ===================================================================
> > --- a/arch/i386/kernel/sched-clock.c
> > +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/sched-clock.c
> > @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ static void resync_sc_freq(struct sc_dat
> >  static void resync_sc_freq(struct sc_data *sc, unsigned int newfreq)
> >  {
> >  	sc->sync_base = jiffies;
> > -	if (!cpu_has_tsc) {
> > +	if (!cpu_has_tsc || tsc_disable) {
> >  		sc->unstable = 1;
> >  		return;
> >  	}
> 
> Looks like this one got lost in rc3-mm1.
> 

Andi said that he fixed the zero-divide by other means?
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