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Message-ID: <CA+55aFw5hnByqQHhsOYgc14DHTejHqmWV=fW2pm4LuzF6UxwCQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 3 Jan 2013 15:18:54 -0800
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Alexey Zaytsev <alexey.zaytsev@...il.com>
Cc:	Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@...il.com>,
	Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@...il.com>,
	stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 3.8-rc2

On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Alexey Zaytsev <alexey.zaytsev@...il.com> wrote:
>
> Chris: The patch does not seem to have any effect on the problem.
>
> Peter: I've attached the dmesgs, as well as the diff between the
> interesting parts. The patch does not seem to make any difference
> there.

Alexey, what happens if you just avoid the divide-by-zero? There might
be other complications downstream, but something like the attached
patch should at least avoid doing the "divide-by-clock" when clock is
zero..

              Linus

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