Re: intel_pstate divide error with v3.13-rc4-256-gb7000ad

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Sunday, December 29, 2013 01:12:18 PM Kashyap Chamarthy wrote:
> [. . .]
> 
> >> Here's host dmesg: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=119751
> >>
> >>>> Can you ftrace the failure?
> >>
> >> Can try, need some time (rest of the day I'll be away travelling,
> >> will try to do it over the weekend, and update the Kernel
> >> bugzilla with observations).
> >>
> >>>>
> >>> Ugh, it looks like guest dmesg but there are KVM messages there too ("[
> >>> 281.443662] kvm [2452]: vcpu0 unhandled rdmsr: 0xe8" is unhandled access
> >>> to MSR_IA32_APERF I was talking about above), so I guess this is nested
> >>> guest invocation? 
> >>
> >> Yeah -- sorry, I forgot to note it's in a nested environment :(
> >>
> >>> Does it happen in non nested guest?
> >>
> >> I need to that.
> >>
> >> Note to self: Also try with a newer Kernel on the host.
> > 
> > Please try the patch I posted earlier today when you're at it:
> > 
> > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/3411991/
> 
> I applied the patch & tried to build the Kernel, it failed with:
> 
> =======
> .
> .
> .
> Generating a 4096 bit RSA private key
> ............................................................................................................drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c:
> In function 'intel_pstate_init_cpu':
> drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c:617:18: error: 'struct pstate_data' has no member named
> 'current_state'
>   if (!cpu->pstate.current_state) {

My bad, that should have been current_pstate.  Updated patch is appended.

Thanks,
Rafael


---
 drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c |    5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

Index: linux-pm/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c
===================================================================
--- linux-pm.orig/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c
+++ linux-pm/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c
@@ -614,6 +614,11 @@ static int intel_pstate_init_cpu(unsigne
 	cpu = all_cpu_data[cpunum];
 
 	intel_pstate_get_cpu_pstates(cpu);
+	if (!cpu->pstate.current_pstate) {
+		all_cpu_data[cpunum] = NULL;
+		kfree(cpu);
+		return -ENODATA;
+	}
 
 	cpu->cpu = cpunum;
 

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