[PATCH] x86/tsc trivial: Changes Fast TSC calibration failed from error to warning

From: Alexandre Demers
Date: Sat Aug 30 2014 - 17:33:33 EST


Most users see this message when booting without knowning that it is of
mostly no importance and that TSC calibration may have succeeded by
another way.

As explained thoroufly by Paul Bolle in 2012
(http://lkml.iu.edu//hypermail/linux/kernel/1209.3/00224.html),
"Fast TSC calibration failed" should not be considered as an error since
other calibration methods are being tried afterward. At most,
those send a warning if they fail (not an error). So let's change
the message from error to warning.

It should also fix bug 75971: fast tsc calibration faild on ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Tested on kernel 3.17-rc2.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Demers <alexandre.f.demers@xxxxxxxxx>

---
arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
index b6025f9..5a22022 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
@@ -617,7 +617,7 @@ static unsigned long quick_pit_calibrate(void)
goto success;
}
}
- pr_err("Fast TSC calibration failed\n");
+ pr_warn("Fast TSC calibration failed\n");
return 0;

success:
--
2.1.0

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