i386: Handle P6s without performance counters in nmi watchdog
I got an oops while booting a 32bit kernel on KVM because it doesn't
implement performance counters used by the NMI watchdog. Handle this
case.
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/perfctr-watchdog.c b/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/perfctr-watchdog.c
index 30b5e48..5729003 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/perfctr-watchdog.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/perfctr-watchdog.c
@@ -346,7 +346,9 @@
perfctr_msr = MSR_P6_PERFCTR0;
evntsel_msr = MSR_P6_EVNTSEL0;
- wrmsrl(perfctr_msr, 0UL);
+ /* KVM doesn't implement this MSR */
+ if (wrmsr_safe(perfctr_msr, 0, 0) < 0)
+ return 0;
evntsel = P6_EVNTSEL_INT
| P6_EVNTSEL_OS