From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Srinivas Pandruvada , Kristen Carlson Accardi , "Rafael J. Wysocki" Subject: [PATCH 4.2 103/110] cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix divide by zero on Knights Landing (KNL) Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 11:19:50 -0800 Message-Id: <20151106191709.356345736@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20151106191703.247930828@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20151106191703.247930828@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 4.2-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Srinivas Pandruvada commit 8e601a9f97a00bab031980de34f9a81891c1f82f upstream. This is a workaround for KNL platform, where in some cases MPERF counter will not have updated value before next read of MSR_IA32_MPERF. In this case divide by zero will occur. This change ignores current sample for busy calculation in this case. Fixes: b34ef932d79a (intel_pstate: Knights Landing support) Signed-off-by: Srinivas Pandruvada Acked-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c @@ -766,6 +766,11 @@ static inline void intel_pstate_sample(s local_irq_save(flags); rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_APERF, aperf); rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_MPERF, mperf); + if (cpu->prev_mperf == mperf) { + local_irq_restore(flags); + return; + } + tsc = native_read_tsc(); local_irq_restore(flags);