This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix divide by zero on Knights Landing (KNL) to the 4.1-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: cpufreq-intel_pstate-fix-divide-by-zero-on-knights-landing-knl.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 8e601a9f97a00bab031980de34f9a81891c1f82f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 12:34:21 -0700 Subject: cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix divide by zero on Knights Landing (KNL) From: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 8e601a9f97a00bab031980de34f9a81891c1f82f upstream. 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. Fixes: b34ef932d79a (intel_pstate: Knights Landing support) Signed-off-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c @@ -761,6 +761,11 @@ static inline void intel_pstate_sample(s local_irq_save(flags); rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_APERF, aperf); rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_MPERF, mperf); + if (cpu->prev_mperf == mperf) { + local_irq_restore(flags); + return; + } + local_irq_restore(flags); cpu->last_sample_time = cpu->sample.time; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from srinivas.pandruvada@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.1/cpufreq-intel_pstate-fix-divide-by-zero-on-knights-landing-knl.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html