From f97586b610dc87a6494236118321e56ffc13319c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ingo Molnar Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:04:34 +0200 Subject: x86: do not crash on non-Geode PCs in TSC probe with this fix Geode kernels can be booted (and QA-ed) on generic PCs. otherwise it crashes and burns during early bootup: Detected 2160.212 MHz processor. general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP Modules linked in: CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[] Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00010002 (2.6.23-rc9 #90) EIP is at tsc_init+0xa6/0x150 eax: 00000001 ebx: c1dce000 ecx: 00001900 edx: 00000001 esi: 00051000 edi: 00051000 ebp: c08fdfc4 esp: c08fdfa4 ds: 007b es: 007b fs: 00d8 gs: 0000 ss: 0068 Process swapper (pid: 0, ti=c08fc000 task=c082a180 task.ti=c08fc000) Stack: c076b870 00000870 000000d4 0000001d c0831e80 c1dce000 00051000 00051000 c08fdfcc c09053f8 c08fdff8 c09045ff 000001e2 c09040a0 00051000 00000020 0004e500 c0932140 00020800 00099800 c08ed000 01409007 00000000 Call Trace: [] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x30 [] show_stack_log_lvl+0xb6/0x100 [] show_registers+0x212/0x3a0 [] die+0x104/0x220 [] do_general_protection+0x1ef/0x2b0 [] error_code+0x72/0x78 [] time_init+0x8/0x20 [] start_kernel+0x1af/0x320 [<00000000>] 0x0 ======================= Code: 31 d2 b8 00 00 09 3d f7 35 2c 70 9b c0 a3 04 95 8f c0 e8 ce 4e 99 ff b8 e0 45 93 c0 e8 94 b1 c5 ff e8 7f 3d 80 ff b9 00 19 00 00 <0f> 32 f6 c4 01 74 07 83 25 24 ce 82 c0 fd 8b 0d 20 ce 82 c0 b8 EIP: [] tsc_init+0xa6/0x150 SS:ESP 0068:c08fdfa4 Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task! Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- arch/x86/kernel/tsc_32.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch') diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc_32.c index b85ad754f70e..e87a3939ed40 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc_32.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc_32.c @@ -349,10 +349,10 @@ __cpuinit int unsynchronized_tsc(void) static void __init check_geode_tsc_reliable(void) { - unsigned long val; + unsigned long res_low, res_high; - rdmsrl(MSR_GEODE_BUSCONT_CONF0, val); - if ((val & RTSC_SUSP)) + rdmsr_safe(MSR_GEODE_BUSCONT_CONF0, &res_low, &res_high); + if (res_low & RTSC_SUSP) clocksource_tsc.flags &= ~CLOCK_SOURCE_MUST_VERIFY; } #else -- cgit v1.2.1