From 3896c329df8092661dac80f55a8c3f60136fd61a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 14:48:19 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] x86, tsc: Fix cpufreq lockup Mauro reported that his AMD X2 using the powernow-k8 cpufreq driver locked up when doing cpu hotplug. Because we called set_cyc2ns_scale() from the time_cpufreq_notifier() unconditionally, it gets called multiple times for each freq change, instead of only the once, when the tsc_khz value actually changes. Because it gets called more than once, we run out of cyc2ns data slots and stall, waiting for a free one, but because we're half way offline, there's no consumers to free slots. By placing the call inside the condition that actually changes tsc_khz we avoid superfluous calls and avoid the problem. Reported-by: Mauro Tested-by: Mauro Fixes: 20d1c86a5776 ("sched/clock, x86: Rewrite cyc2ns() to avoid the need to disable IRQs") Cc: Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Viresh Kumar Cc: Bin Gao Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Mika Westerberg Cc: Paul Gortmaker Cc: Stefani Seibold Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Reading git-format-patch failed