[PATCH] Change warning message in TSC calibration.

From: Alok Kataria
Date: Wed Sep 03 2008 - 21:18:19 EST


x86: Change warning message in TSC calibration.

From: Alok N Kataria <akataria@xxxxxxxxxx>

When calibration against PIT fails, the warning that we print is misleading.
In a virtualized environment the VM may get descheduled while calibration
or, the check in PIT calibration may fail due to other virtualization
overheads.

The warning message explicitly assumes that calibration failed due to SMI's
which may not be the case. Change that to something proper.

Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c | 3 +--
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)


diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
index d74b3ef..9d4aeec 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
@@ -271,8 +271,7 @@ unsigned long native_calibrate_tsc(void)
*/
if (tsc_pit_min == ULONG_MAX) {
/* PIT gave no useful value */
- printk(KERN_WARNING "TSC: PIT calibration failed due to "
- "SMI disturbance.\n");
+ printk(KERN_WARNING "TSC: Unable to calibrate against PIT\n");

/* We don't have an alternative source, disable TSC */
if (!hpet && !pm1 && !pm2) {


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