-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Andi Kleen I got an oops while booting a 32bit kernel on KVM because it doesn't implement performance counters used by the NMI watchdog. Handle this case. Cc: Avi Kivity Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/i386/kernel/cpu/perfctr-watchdog.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/perfctr-watchdog.c +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/perfctr-watchdog.c @@ -346,7 +346,9 @@ static int setup_p6_watchdog(unsigned nm perfctr_msr = MSR_P6_PERFCTR0; evntsel_msr = MSR_P6_EVNTSEL0; - wrmsrl(perfctr_msr, 0UL); + /* KVM doesn't implement this MSR */ + if (wrmsr_safe(perfctr_msr, 0, 0) < 0) + return 0; evntsel = P6_EVNTSEL_INT | P6_EVNTSEL_OS -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/