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Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 12:42:23 +1000
From: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] sched_clock vs tsc_disable
(Not sure who's code this is, but it's in 2.6.22-rc1-mm1):
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>
diff -r fd2ae7085ca2 arch/i386/kernel/sched-clock.c
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/sched-clock.c Fri May 18 11:04:27 2007 +1000
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/sched-clock.c Fri May 18 12:12:24 2007 +1000
@@ -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;
}
-
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