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cpufreq: intel_pstate: divide by zero on Knights Landing (KNL)

Message ID 1444933968-5431-1-git-send-email-srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded, archived
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srinivas pandruvada Oct. 15, 2015, 6:32 p.m. UTC
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.

Signed-off-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
---
 drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c b/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c
index 3af9dd7..d4126e1 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c
@@ -776,6 +776,9 @@  static inline void intel_pstate_sample(struct cpudata *cpu)
 	local_irq_save(flags);
 	rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_APERF, aperf);
 	rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_MPERF, mperf);
+	if (cpu->prev_mperf == mperf)
+		return;
+
 	tsc = rdtsc();
 	local_irq_restore(flags);