According to Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures SDM, Volume 3, Chapter 14.2, "Software needs to exercise care to avoid delays between the two RDMSRs (for example interrupts)".
So, disable interrupts during reading MSRs IA32_APERF and IA32_MPERF. See also: commit 4ab60c3f32c721e46217e762bcd3e55a8f659c04 cpufreq: intel_pstate: Disable interrupts during MSRs reading Signed-off-by: Doug Smythies <dsmyth...@telus.net> --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/aperfmperf.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/aperfmperf.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/aperfmperf.c index 7cf7c70..0ee8332 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/aperfmperf.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/aperfmperf.c @@ -40,13 +40,16 @@ static void aperfmperf_snapshot_khz(void *dummy) struct aperfmperf_sample *s = this_cpu_ptr(&samples); ktime_t now = ktime_get(); s64 time_delta = ktime_ms_delta(now, s->time); + unsigned long flags; /* Don't bother re-computing within the cache threshold time. */ if (time_delta < APERFMPERF_CACHE_THRESHOLD_MS) return; + local_irq_save(flags); rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_APERF, aperf); rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_MPERF, mperf); + local_irq_restore(flags); aperf_delta = aperf - s->aperf; mperf_delta = mperf - s->mperf; -- 2.7.4