x86: fix NMI watchdog & 'stopped time' problem

More than 3 years ago Niclas Gustafsson reported a 'stopped time'
problem:

> Watching the /proc/interrupts with 10s apart after the "stop".
>
> [root@s151 root]# more /proc/interrupts
>            CPU0
>   0:   66413955  local-APIC-edge  timer
[...]
> LOC:   67355837
> ERR:          0
> MIS:          0
> [root@s151 root]# more /proc/interrupts
>            CPU0
>   0:   66413955  local-APIC-edge  timer
[...]
> LOC:   67379568
> ERR:          0
> MIS:          0

This may be because buggy SMM firmware messes with the 8259A (configured
for a transparent mode -- yes that rare "local-APIC-edge" mode is tricky
;-) ) insanely.

this should resolve:

  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2544
  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6296

Patch-dusted-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/nmi_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/nmi_32.c
index 600fd404e440..f5cc47c60b13 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/nmi_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/nmi_32.c
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 
 #include <asm/smp.h>
 #include <asm/nmi.h>
+#include <asm/timer.h>
 
 #include "mach_traps.h"
 
@@ -83,7 +84,7 @@ static int __init check_nmi_watchdog(void)
 
         prev_nmi_count = kmalloc(NR_CPUS * sizeof(int), GFP_KERNEL);
         if (!prev_nmi_count)
-                return -1;
+                goto error;
 
         printk(KERN_INFO "Testing NMI watchdog ... ");
 
@@ -117,7 +118,7 @@ static int __init check_nmi_watchdog(void)
         if (!atomic_read(&nmi_active)) {
                 kfree(prev_nmi_count);
                 atomic_set(&nmi_active, -1);
-                return -1;
+                goto error;
         }
         printk("OK.\n");
 
@@ -128,6 +129,10 @@ static int __init check_nmi_watchdog(void)
 
         kfree(prev_nmi_count);
         return 0;
+error:
+        timer_ack = !cpu_has_tsc;
+
+        return -1;
 }
 /* This needs to happen later in boot so counters are working */
 late_initcall(check_nmi_watchdog);