x86, apic: Handle a bad TSC more gracefully
commit b47dcbdc upstream. If the TSC is unusable or disabled, then this patch fixes: - Confusion while trying to clear old APIC interrupts. - Division by zero and incorrect programming of the TSC deadline timer. This fixes boot if the CPU has a TSC deadline timer but a missing or broken TSC. The failure to boot can be observed with qemu using -cpu qemu64,-tsc,+tsc-deadline This also happens to me in nested KVM for unknown reasons. With this patch, I can boot cleanly (although without a TSC). Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Bandan Das <bsd@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e2fa274e498c33988efac0ba8b7e3120f7f92d78.1413393027.git.luto@amacapital.netSigned-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
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