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SubjectRe: [BISECTED]: Kernel panic (was: Linux 5.7-rc2)
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Linus Torvalds [21.04.2020 21:03]:

> On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 1:52 AM Harald Arnesen <harald@skogtun.org> wrote:
>>
>> Neither rc1 nor rc2 will boot on my laptop. The attached picture is all
>> I have been able to capture.
>
> I know you saw the reply about this probably being fixed by
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200416054745.740-1-ggherdovich@suse.cz/
>
> but it would be lovely if you could actually verify that that series
> of four patches does indeed fix it for you.
>
> Your oops is on that divide instruction:
>
> freq_scale = div64_u64(acnt, mcnt);
>
> and while we had a check for mcnt not being zero earlier, we did
>
> mcnt *= arch_max_freq_ratio;
>
> after that check. I could see it becoming zero either due to an
> overflow, or due to arch_max_freq_ratio being 0.
>
> I think the first commit in that series is supposed to fix that
> arch_max_freq_ratio being 0 case, but it still feels like the code
> that does the divide is checking for zero in the wrong place...
>
> Linus

I will try the patches today, and report back.
--
Hilsen Harald

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