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i386: Handle P6s without performance counters in nmi watchdog 

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 <avi@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andi Kleen 2007-07-22 11:12:39 +02:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent f25f64ed5b
commit 57c22f49e4
1 changed files with 3 additions and 1 deletions
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arch/i386/kernel/cpu/perfctr-watchdog.c
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@ -346,7 +346,9 @@ static int setup_p6_watchdog(unsigned nmi_hz)
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