* 'x86-detect-hyper-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, hyper: Change hypervisor detection order
* 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86-32, fpu: Fix DNA exception during check_fpu()
* 'x86-kexec-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
kexec, x86: Fix incorrect jump back address if not preserving context
* 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, config: Introduce an INTEL_MID configuration
* 'x86-quirks-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, quirks: Use pci_dev->revision
* 'x86-tsc-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: tsc: Remove unneeded DMI-based blacklisting
* 'x86-smpboot-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, boot: Wait for boot cpu to show up if nr_cpus limit is about to hit
The vread field was bloating struct clocksource everywhere except
x86_64, and I want to change the way this works on x86_64, so let's
split it out into per-arch data.
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/3ae5ec76a168eaaae63f08a2a1060b91aa0b7759.1310563276.git.luto@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
The blacklist was added in response to my bug report
(http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/19/362) and has never
contained more than the one entry describing my old
now dead ThinkPad 380XD laptop. As found out later
(http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/29/50), this special
treatment has been unnecessary for a long time, so
it can be removed.
Signed-off-by: Tero Roponen <tero.roponen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
vread_tsc is short and hot, and it's userspace code so the usual
reasons to enable -pg and turn off sibling calls don't apply.
(OK, turning off sibling calls has no effect. But it might
someday...)
As an added benefit, tsc.c is profilable now.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/%3C99c6d7f5efa3ccb65b4ac6eb443e1ab7bad47d7b.1306156808.git.luto%40mit.edu%3E
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
vread_tsc checks whether rdtsc returns something less than
cycle_last, which is an extremely predictable branch. GCC likes
to generate a cmov anyway, which is several cycles slower than
a predicted branch. This saves a couple of nanoseconds.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/%3C561280649519de41352fcb620684dfb22bad6bac.1306156808.git.luto%40mit.edu%3E
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
RDTSC is completely unordered on modern Intel and AMD CPUs. The
Intel manual says that lfence;rdtsc causes all previous instructions
to complete before the tsc is read, and the AMD manual says to use
mfence;rdtsc to do the same thing.
From a decent amount of testing [1] this is enough to make rdtsc
be ordered with respect to subsequent loads across a wide variety
of CPUs.
On Sandy Bridge (i7-2600), this improves a loop of
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC) by more than 5 ns/iter.
[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/4/18/350
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/%3C1c158b9d74338aa5361f96dd473d0e6a58235302.1306156808.git.luto%40mit.edu%3E
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Variables that are shared between the vdso and the kernel are
currently a bit of a mess. They are each defined with their own
magic, they are accessed differently in the kernel, the vsyscall page,
and the vdso, and one of them (vsyscall_clock) doesn't even really
exist.
This changes them all to use a common mechanism. All of them are
delcared in vvar.h with a fixed address (validated by the linker
script). In the kernel (as before), they look like ordinary
read-write variables. In the vsyscall page and the vdso, they are
accessed through a new macro VVAR, which gives read-only access.
The vdso is now loaded verbatim into memory without any fixups. As a
side bonus, access from the vdso is faster because a level of
indirection is removed.
While we're at it, pack jiffies and vgetcpu_mode into the same
cacheline.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/%3C7357882fbb51fa30491636a7b6528747301b7ee9.1306156808.git.luto%40mit.edu%3E
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
They were generated by 'codespell' and then manually reviewed.
Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
Cc: trivial@kernel.org
LKML-Reference: <1300389856-1099-3-git-send-email-lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
rcu: avoid pointless blocked-task warnings
rcu: demote SRCU_SYNCHRONIZE_DELAY from kernel-parameter status
rtmutex: Fix comment about why new_owner can be NULL in wake_futex_pi()
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, olpc: Add missing Kconfig dependencies
x86, mrst: Set correct APB timer IRQ affinity for secondary cpu
x86: tsc: Fix calibration refinement conditionals to avoid divide by zero
x86, ia64, acpi: Clean up x86-ism in drivers/acpi/numa.c
* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
timekeeping: Make local variables static
time: Rename misnamed minsec argument of clocks_calc_mult_shift()
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
tracing: Remove syscall_exit_fields
tracing: Only process module tracepoints once
perf record: Add "nodelay" mode, disabled by default
perf sched: Fix list of events, dropping unsupported ':r' modifier
Revert "perf tools: Emit clearer message for sys_perf_event_open ENOENT return"
perf top: Fix annotate segv
perf evsel: Fix order of event list deletion
Konrad Wilk reported that the new delayed calibration crashes with a
divide by zero on Xen. The reason is that Xen sets the pmtimer
address, but reading from it returns 0xffffff. That results in the
ref_start and ref_stop value being the same, so the delta is zero
which causes the divide by zero later in the calculation.
The conditional (!hpet && !ref_start && !ref_stop) which sanity checks
the calibration reference values doesn't really make sense. If the
refs are null, but hpet is on, we still want to break out.
The div by zero would be possible to trigger by chance if both reads
from the hardware provided the exact same value (due to hardware
wrapping).
So checking if both the ref values are the same should handle if we
don't have hardware (both null) or if they are the same value (either by
invalid hardware, or by chance), avoiding the div by zero issue.
[ tglx: Applied the same fix to native_calibrate_tsc() where this
check was copied from ]
Reported-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1295024788-15619-1-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: Fix Moorestown VRTC fixmap placement
x86/gpio: Implement x86 gpio_to_irq convert function
x86, UV: Fix APICID shift for Westmere processors
x86: Use PCI method for enabling AMD extended config space before MSR method
x86: tsc: Prevent delayed init if initial tsc calibration failed
x86, lapic-timer: Increase the max_delta to 31 bits
x86: Fix sparse non-ANSI function warnings in smpboot.c
x86, numa: Fix CONFIG_DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS without NUMA emulation
x86, AMD, PCI: Add AMD northbridge PCI device id for CPU families 12h and 14h
x86, numa: Fix cpu to node mapping for sparse node ids
x86, numa: Fake node-to-cpumask for NUMA emulation
x86, numa: Fake apicid and pxm mappings for NUMA emulation
x86, numa: Avoid compiling NUMA emulation functions without CONFIG_NUMA_EMU
x86, numa: Reduce minimum fake node size to 32M
Fix up trivial conflict in arch/x86/kernel/apic/x2apic_uv_x.c
commit a8760ec (x86: Check tsc available/disabled in the delayed init
function) missed to prevent the setup of the delayed init function in
case the initial tsc calibration failed. This results in the same
divide by zero bug as we have seen without the tsc disabled check.
Skip the delayed work setup when tsc_khz (the initial calibration
value) is 0.
Bisected-and-tested-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kas@openvz.org>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* 'for-2.6.38' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (30 commits)
gameport: use this_cpu_read instead of lookup
x86: udelay: Use this_cpu_read to avoid address calculation
x86: Use this_cpu_inc_return for nmi counter
x86: Replace uses of current_cpu_data with this_cpu ops
x86: Use this_cpu_ops to optimize code
vmstat: User per cpu atomics to avoid interrupt disable / enable
irq_work: Use per cpu atomics instead of regular atomics
cpuops: Use cmpxchg for xchg to avoid lock semantics
x86: this_cpu_cmpxchg and this_cpu_xchg operations
percpu: Generic this_cpu_cmpxchg() and this_cpu_xchg support
percpu,x86: relocate this_cpu_add_return() and friends
connector: Use this_cpu operations
xen: Use this_cpu_inc_return
taskstats: Use this_cpu_ops
random: Use this_cpu_inc_return
fs: Use this_cpu_inc_return in buffer.c
highmem: Use this_cpu_xx_return() operations
vmstat: Use this_cpu_inc_return for vm statistics
x86: Support for this_cpu_add, sub, dec, inc_return
percpu: Generic support for this_cpu_add, sub, dec, inc_return
...
Fixed up conflicts: in arch/x86/kernel/{apic/nmi.c, apic/x2apic_uv_x.c, process.c}
as per Tejun.
Go through x86 code and replace __get_cpu_var and get_cpu_var
instances that refer to a scalar and are not used for address
determinations.
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
The delayed TSC init function does not check whether the system has no
TSC or TSC is disabled at the kernel command line, which results in a
crash in the work queue based extended calibration due to division by
zero because the basic calibration never happened.
Add the missing checks and do not touch TSC when not available or
disabled.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Boot to boot the TSC calibration may vary by quite a large amount.
While normal variance of 50-100ppm can easily be seen, the quick
calibration code only requires 500ppm accuracy, which is the limit
of what NTP can correct for.
This can cause problems for systems being used as NTP servers, as
every time they reboot it can take hours for them to calculate the
new drift error caused by the calibration.
The classic trade-off here is calibration accuracy vs slow boot times,
as during the calibration nothing else can run.
This patch uses a delayed workqueue to calibrate the TSC over the
period of a second. This allows very accurate calibration (in my
tests only varying by 1khz or 0.4ppm boot to boot). Additionally this
refined calibration step does not block the boot process, and only
delays the TSC clocksoure registration by a few seconds in early boot.
If the refined calibration strays 1% from the early boot calibration
value, the system will fall back to already calculated early boot
calibration.
Credit to Andi Kleen who suggested using a timer quite awhile back,
but I dismissed it thinking the timer calibration would be done after
the clocksource was registered (which would break things). Forgive
me for my short-sightedness.
This patch has worked very well in my testing, but TSC hardware is
quite varied so it would probably be good to get some extended
testing, possibly pushing inclusion out to 2.6.39.
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1289003985-29060-1-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CC: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
CC: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
CC: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
* 'x86-amd-nb-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, amd_nb: Enable GART support for AMD family 0x15 CPUs
x86, amd: Use compute unit information to determine thread siblings
x86, amd: Extract compute unit information for AMD CPUs
x86, amd: Add support for CPUID topology extension of AMD CPUs
x86, nmi: Support NMI watchdog on newer AMD CPU families
x86, mtrr: Assume SYS_CFG[Tom2ForceMemTypeWB] exists on all future AMD CPUs
x86, k8: Rename k8.[ch] to amd_nb.[ch] and CONFIG_K8_NB to CONFIG_AMD_NB
x86, k8-gart: Decouple handling of garts and northbridges
x86, cacheinfo: Fix dependency of AMD L3 CID
x86, kvm: add new AMD SVM feature bits
x86, cpu: Fix allowed CPUID bits for KVM guests
x86, cpu: Update AMD CPUID feature bits
x86, cpu: Fix renamed, not-yet-shipping AMD CPUID feature bit
x86, AMD: Remove needless CPU family check (for L3 cache info)
x86, tsc: Remove CPU frequency calibration on AMD
This patch adds IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING option on x86 and runtime enables it
when TSC is enabled.
This change just enables fine grained irq time accounting, isn't used yet.
Following patches use it for different purposes.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1286237003-12406-6-git-send-email-venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
A real life genuine preemption leak..
Reported-and-tested-by: Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
6b37f5a20c introduced the CPU frequency
calibration code for AMD CPUs whose TSCs didn't increment with the
core's P0 frequency. From F10h, revB onward, however, the TSC increment
rate is denoted by MSRC001_0015[24] and when this bit is set (which
should be done by the BIOS) the TSC increments with the P0 frequency
so the calibration is not needed and booting can be a couple of mcecs
faster on those machines.
Besides, there should be virtually no machines out there which don't
have this bit set, therefore this calibration can be safely removed. It
is a shaky hack anyway since it assumes implicitly that the core is in
P0 when BIOS hands off to the OS, which might not always be the case.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100825162823.GE26438@aftab>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
TSC's get reset after suspend/resume (even on cpu's with invariant TSC
which runs at a constant rate across ACPI P-, C- and T-states). And in
some systems BIOS seem to reinit TSC to arbitrary large value (still
sync'd across cpu's) during resume.
This leads to a scenario of scheduler rq->clock (sched_clock_cpu()) less
than rq->age_stamp (introduced in 2.6.32). This leads to a big value
returned by scale_rt_power() and the resulting big group power set by the
update_group_power() is causing improper load balancing between busy and
idle cpu's after suspend/resume.
This resulted in multi-threaded workloads (like kernel-compilation) go
slower after suspend/resume cycle on core i5 laptops.
Fix this by recomputing cyc2ns_offset's during resume, so that
sched_clock() continues from the point where it was left off during
suspend.
Reported-by: Florian Pritz <flo@xssn.at>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # [v2.6.32+]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1282262618.2675.24.camel@sbsiddha-MOBL3.sc.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This converts the most common of the x86 clocksources over to use
clocksource_register_hz/khz.
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1279068988-21864-11-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
In particular, several occurances of funny versions of 'success',
'unknown', 'therefore', 'acknowledge', 'argument', 'achieve', 'address',
'beginning', 'desirable', 'separate' and 'necessary' are fixed.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Pass the clocksource as an argument to the clocksource resume callback.
Needed so we can point out which CMT channel the sh_cmt.c driver shall
resume.
Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Commit 83ce4009 did the following change
If the TSC is constant and non-stop, also set it reliable.
But, there seems to be few systems that will end up with TSC warp across
sockets, depending on how the cpus come out of reset. Skipping TSC sync
test on such systems may result in time inconsistency later.
So, reenable TSC sync test even on constant and non-stop TSC systems.
Set, sched_clock_stable to 1 by default and reset it in
mark_tsc_unstable, if TSC sync fails.
This change still gives perf benefit mentioned in 83ce4009 for systems
where TSC is reliable.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Acked-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091217202702.GA18015@linux-os.sc.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Cc: "Tan Wei Chong" <wei.chong.tan@intel.com>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1253137123-18047-2-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (38 commits)
x86: Move get/set_wallclock to x86_platform_ops
x86: platform: Fix section annotations
x86: apic namespace cleanup
x86: Distangle ioapic and i8259
x86: Add Moorestown early detection
x86: Add hardware_subarch ID for Moorestown
x86: Add early platform detection
x86: Move tsc_init to late_time_init
x86: Move tsc_calibration to x86_init_ops
x86: Replace the now identical time_32/64.c by time.c
x86: time_32/64.c unify profile_pc
x86: Move calibrate_cpu to tsc.c
x86: Make timer setup and global variables the same in time_32/64.c
x86: Remove mca bus ifdef from timer interrupt
x86: Simplify timer_ack magic in time_32.c
x86: Prepare unification of time_32/64.c
x86: Remove do_timer hook
x86: Add timer_init to x86_init_ops
x86: Move percpu clockevents setup to x86_init_ops
x86: Move xen_post_allocator_init into xen_pagetable_setup_done
...
Fix up conflicts in arch/x86/include/asm/io_apic.h
TSC calibration is modified by the vmware hypervisor and paravirt by
separate means. Moorestown wants to add its own calibration routine as
well. So make calibrate_tsc a proper x86_init_ops function and
override it by paravirt or by the early setup of the vmware
hypervisor.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Move the code where it's only user is. Also we need to look whether
this hardwired hackery might interfere with perfcounters.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The timer init code is convoluted with several quirks and the paravirt
timer chooser. Figuring out which code path is actually taken is not
for the faint hearted.
Move the numaq TSC quirk to tsc_pre_init x86_init_ops function and
replace the paravirt time chooser and the remaining x86 quirk with a
simple x86_init_ops function.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This patch makes the tsc=reliable option disable the boot time
stability checks. Currently the option only disables the runtime
watchdog checks. This change allows folks who want to override the
boot time TSC stability checks and use the TSC when the system would
otherwise disqualify it.
There still are some situations that the TSC will be disqualified,
such as cpufreq scaling. But these are situations where the box will
hang if allowed.
Patch also includes a fix for an issue found by Thomas Gleixner, where
the TSC disqualification message wouldn't be printed after a call to
unsynchronized_tsc().
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: akataria@vmware.com
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
LKML-Reference: <1250552447.7212.92.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Martin Schwidefsky analyzed it:
To register a clocksource the clocksource_mutex is acquired and if
necessary timekeeping_notify is called to install the clocksource as
the timekeeper clock. timekeeping_notify uses stop_machine which needs
to take cpu_add_remove_lock mutex.
Starting a new cpu is done with the cpu_add_remove_lock mutex held.
native_cpu_up checks the tsc of the new cpu and if the tsc is no good
clocksource_change_rating is called. Which needs the clocksource_mutex
and the deadlock is complete.
The solution is to replace the TSC via the clocksource watchdog
mechanism. Mark the TSC as unstable and schedule the watchdog work so
it gets removed in the watchdog thread context.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
change_clocksource resets the cycle_last value to zero then sets it to
a value read from the clocksource. The reset to zero is required only
for the TSC clocksource to make the read_tsc function work after a
resume. The reason is that the TSC read function uses cycle_last to
detect backwards going TSCs. In the resume case cycle_last contains
the TSC value from the last update before the suspend. On resume the
TSC starts counting from 0 again and would trip over the cycle_last
comparison.
This is subtle and surprising. Move the reset to a resume function in
the tsc code.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090814134808.142191175@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Wei Chong Tan reported a fast-PIT-calibration corner-case:
| pit_expect_msb() is vulnerable to SMI disturbance corner case
| in some platforms which causes /proc/cpuinfo to show wrong
| CPU MHz value when quick_pit_calibrate() jumps to success
| section.
I think that the real issue isn't even an SMI - but the fact
that in the very last iteration of the loop, there's no
serializing instruction _after_ the last 'rdtsc'. So even in
the absense of SMI's, we do have a situation where the cycle
counter was read without proper serialization.
The last check should be done outside the outer loop, since
_inside_ the outer loop, we'll be testing that the PIT has
the right MSB value has the right value in the next iteration.
So only the _last_ iteration is special, because that's the one
that will not check the PIT MSB value any more, and because the
final 'get_cycles()' isn't serialized.
In other words:
- I'd like to move the PIT MSB check to after the last
iteration, rather than in every iteration
- I think we should comment on the fact that it's also a
serializing instruction and so 'fences in' the TSC read.
Here's a suggested replacement.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Reported-by: "Tan, Wei Chong" <wei.chong.tan@intel.com>
Tested-by: "Tan, Wei Chong" <wei.chong.tan@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <B28277FD4E0F9247A3D55704C440A140D5D683F3@pgsmsx504.gar.corp.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
sched: Fix out of scope variable access in sched_slice()
sched: Hide runqueues from direct refer at source code level
sched: Remove unneeded __ref tag
sched, x86: Fix cpufreq + sched_clock() TSC scaling
* 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq:
[CPUFREQ] cpumask: new cpumask operators for arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c
[CPUFREQ] cpumask: avoid playing with cpus_allowed in powernow-k8.c
[CPUFREQ] cpumask: avoid cpumask games in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/speedstep-centrino.c
[CPUFREQ] cpumask: avoid playing with cpus_allowed in speedstep-ich.c
[CPUFREQ] powernow-k8: get drv data for correct CPU
[CPUFREQ] powernow-k8: read P-state from HW
[CPUFREQ] reduce scope of ACPI_PSS_BIOS_BUG_MSG[]
[CPUFREQ] Clean up convoluted code in arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c:time_cpufreq_notifier()
[CPUFREQ] minor correction to cpu-freq documentation
[CPUFREQ] powernow-k8.c: mess cleanup
[CPUFREQ] Only set sampling_rate_max deprecated, sampling_rate_min is useful
[CPUFREQ] powernow-k8: Set transition latency to 1 if ACPI tables export 0
[CPUFREQ] ondemand: Uncouple minimal sampling rate from HZ in NO_HZ case
For freqency dependent TSCs we only scale the cycles, we do not account
for the discrepancy in absolute value.
Our current formula is: time = cycles * mult
(where mult is a function of the cpu-speed on variable tsc machines)
Suppose our current cycle count is 10, and we have a multiplier of 5,
then our time value would end up being 50.
Now cpufreq comes along and changes the multiplier to say 3 or 7,
which would result in our time being resp. 30 or 70.
That means that we can observe random jumps in the time value due to
frequency changes in both fwd and bwd direction.
So what this patch does is change the formula to:
time = cycles * frequency + offset
And we calculate offset so that time_before == time_after, thereby
ridding us of these jumps in time.
[ Impact: fix/reduce sched_clock() jumps across frequency changing events ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Chucked-on-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
PIT_TICK_RATE is currently defined in four architectures, but in three
different places. While linux/timex.h is not the perfect place for it, it
is still a reasonable replacement for those drivers that traditionally use
asm/timex.h to get CLOCK_TICK_RATE and expect it to be the PIT frequency.
Note that for Alpha, the actual value changed from 1193182UL to 1193180UL.
This is unlikely to make a difference, and probably can only improve
accuracy. There was a discussion on the correct value of CLOCK_TICK_RATE
a few years ago, after which every existing instance was getting changed
to 1193182. According to the specification, it should be
1193181.818181...
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Christoph Hellwig noticed the following potential uninitialised use:
> arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c: In function 'time_cpufreq_notifier':
> arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c:634: warning: 'dummy' may be used uninitialized in this function
>
> where we do have CONFIG_SMP set, freq->flags & CPUFREQ_CONST_LOOPS is
> true and ref_freq is false.
It seems plausable, though the circumstances for hitting it are really low.
Nearly all SMP capable cpufreq drivers set CPUFREQ_CONST_LOOPS.
powernow-k8 is really the only exception. The older CPUs were typically
only ever UP. (powernow-k7 never supported SMP for eg)
It's worth fixing regardless, as it cleans up the code.
Fix possible uninitialized use of dummy, by just removing it,
and making the setting of lpj more obvious.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
* 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, nmi: Use predefined numbers instead of hardcoded one
x86: asm/processor.h: remove double declaration
x86, mtrr: replace MTRRdefType_MSR with msr-index's MSR_MTRRdefType
x86, mtrr: replace MTRRfix4K_C0000_MSR with msr-index's MSR_MTRRfix4K_C0000
x86, mtrr: remove mtrr MSRs double declaration
x86, mtrr: replace MTRRfix16K_80000_MSR with msr-index's MSR_MTRRfix16K_80000
x86, mtrr: replace MTRRfix64K_00000_MSR with msr-index's MSR_MTRRfix64K_00000
x86, mtrr: replace MTRRcap_MSR with msr-index's MSR_MTRRcap
x86: mce: remove duplicated #include
x86: msr-index.h remove duplicate MSR C001_0015 declaration
x86: clean up arch/x86/kernel/tsc_sync.c a bit
x86: use symbolic name for VM86_SIGNAL when used as vm86 default return
x86: added 'ifndef _ASM_X86_IOMAP_H' to iomap.h
x86: avoid multiple declaration of kstack_depth_to_print
x86: vdso/vma.c declare vdso_enabled and arch_setup_additional_pages before they get used
x86: clean up declarations and variables
x86: apic/x2apic_cluster.c x86_cpu_to_logical_apicid should be static
x86 early quirks: eliminate unused function
The *fence instructions were moved to vsyscall_64.c by commit
cb9e35dce9. But this breaks the
vDSO, because vread methods are also called from there.
Besides, the synchronization might be unnecessary for other
time sources than TSC.
[ Impact: fix potential time warp in VDSO ]
Signed-off-by: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>
LKML-Reference: <9d0ea9ea0f866bdc1f4d76831221ae117f11ea67.1243241859.git.ptesarik@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Pass clocksource pointer to the read() callback for clocksources. This
allows us to share the callback between multiple instances.
[hugh@veritas.com: fix powerpc build of clocksource pass clocksource mods]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Impact: cleanup, no code changed
- syscalls.h update declarations due to unifications
- irq.c declare smp_generic_interrupt() before it gets used
- process.c declare sys_fork() and sys_vfork() before they get used
- tsc.c rename tsc_khz shadowed variable
- apic/probe_32.c declare apic_default before it gets used
- apic/nmi.c prev_nmi_count should be unsigned
- apic/io_apic.c declare smp_irq_move_cleanup_interrupt() before it gets used
- mm/init.c declare direct_gbpages and free_initrd_mem before they get used
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'sched-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (46 commits)
sched: Add comments to find_busiest_group() function
sched: Refactor the power savings balance code
sched: Optimize the !power_savings_balance during fbg()
sched: Create a helper function to calculate imbalance
sched: Create helper to calculate small_imbalance in fbg()
sched: Create a helper function to calculate sched_domain stats for fbg()
sched: Define structure to store the sched_domain statistics for fbg()
sched: Create a helper function to calculate sched_group stats for fbg()
sched: Define structure to store the sched_group statistics for fbg()
sched: Fix indentations in find_busiest_group() using gotos
sched: Simple helper functions for find_busiest_group()
sched: remove unused fields from struct rq
sched: jiffies not printed per CPU
sched: small optimisation of can_migrate_task()
sched: fix typos in documentation
sched: add avg_overlap decay
x86, sched_clock(): mark variables read-mostly
sched: optimize ttwu vs group scheduling
sched: TIF_NEED_RESCHED -> need_reshed() cleanup
sched: don't rebalance if attached on NULL domain
...
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq: (35 commits)
[CPUFREQ] Prevent p4-clockmod from auto-binding to the ondemand governor.
[CPUFREQ] Make cpufreq-nforce2 less obnoxious
[CPUFREQ] p4-clockmod reports wrong frequency.
[CPUFREQ] powernow-k8: Use a common exit path.
[CPUFREQ] Change link order of x86 cpufreq modules
[CPUFREQ] conservative: remove 10x from def_sampling_rate
[CPUFREQ] conservative: fixup governor to function more like ondemand logic
[CPUFREQ] conservative: fix dbs_cpufreq_notifier so freq is not locked
[CPUFREQ] conservative: amend author's email address
[CPUFREQ] Use swap() in longhaul.c
[CPUFREQ] checkpatch cleanups for acpi-cpufreq
[CPUFREQ] powernow-k8: Only print error message once, not per core.
[CPUFREQ] ondemand/conservative: sanitize sampling_rate restrictions
[CPUFREQ] ondemand/conservative: deprecate sampling_rate{min,max}
[CPUFREQ] powernow-k8: Always compile powernow-k8 driver with ACPI support
[CPUFREQ] Introduce /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/cpuinfo_transition_latency
[CPUFREQ] checkpatch cleanups for powernow-k8
[CPUFREQ] checkpatch cleanups for ondemand governor.
[CPUFREQ] checkpatch cleanups for powernow-k7
[CPUFREQ] checkpatch cleanups for speedstep related drivers.
...
In order for ntpd to correctly synchronize the clocks, the frequency of
the system clock must not be off by more than 500 ppm (or, put another
way, 1:2000), or ntpd will end up giving up on trying to synchronize
properly, and ends up reseting the clock in jumps instead.
The fast TSC PIT calibration sometimes failed this test - it was
assuming that the PIT reads always took about one microsecond each (2us
for the two reads to get a 16-bit timer), and that calibrating TSC to
the PIT over 15ms should thus be sufficient to get much closer than
500ppm (max 2us error on both sides giving 4us over 15ms: a 270 ppm
error value).
However, that assumption does not always hold: apparently some hardware
is either very much slower at reading the PIT registers, or there was
other noise causing at least one machine to get 700+ ppm errors.
So instead of using a fixed 15ms timing loop, this changes the fast PIT
calibration to read the TSC delta over the individual PIT timer reads,
and use the result to calculate the error bars on the PIT read timing
properly. We then successfully calibrate the TSC only if the maximum
error bars fall below 500ppm.
In the process, we also relax the timing to allow up to 25ms for the
calibration, although it can happen much faster depending on hardware.
Reported-and-tested-by: Jesper Krogh <jesper@krogh.cc>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
During bootup, when we reprogram the PIT (programmable interval timer)
to start counting down from 0xffff in order to use it for the fast TSC
calibration, we should also make sure to delay a bit afterwards to allow
the PIT hardware to actually start counting with the new value.
That will happens at the next CLK pulse (1.193182 MHz), so the easiest
way to do that is to just wait at least one microsecond after
programming the new PIT counter value. We do that by just reading the
counter value back once - which will take about 2us on PC hardware.
Reported-and-tested-by: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Impact: micro-optimization
There's a number of variables in the sched_clock() path that are
in .data/.bss - but not marked __read_mostly. This creates the
danger of accidental false cacheline sharing with some other,
write-often variable.
So mark them __read_mostly.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10968
[ Updated for current tree, and fixed compile failure
when p4-clockmod was built modular -- davej]
From: Matthias-Christian Ott <ott@mirix.org>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@brodo.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
The x86/Voyager subarch used to have this distinction between
'x86 SMP support' and 'Voyager SMP support':
config X86_SMP
bool
depends on SMP && ((X86_32 && !X86_VOYAGER) || X86_64)
This is a pointless distinction - Voyager can (and already does) use
smp_ops to implement various SMP quirks it has - and it can be extended
more to cover all the specialities of Voyager.
So remove this complication in the Kconfig space.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
sched_clock() uses cycles_2_ns() needlessly - which is an irq-disabling
variant of __cycles_2_ns().
Most of the time sched_clock() is called with irqs disabled already.
The few places that call it with irqs enabled need to be updated.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix udelay when "notsc" boot parameter is passed
With notsc passed on commandline, tsc may not be used for
udelays, make sure that we do not use tsc_khz to calculate
the lpj value in such cases.
Reported-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: Changes timekeeping on Vmware (or with tsc=reliable).
This is achieved by resetting the CLOCKSOURCE_MUST_VERIFY flag.
We add a tsc=reliable commandline option to enable this.
This enables legacy hardware without HPET, LAPIC, or ACPI timers
to enter high-resolution timer mode.
Along with that have extended this to be used in virtualization environement
too. Now we also set this flag if the X86_FEATURE_TSC_RELIABLE bit is set.
This is important since there is a wrap-around problem with the acpi_pm timer.
The acpi_pm counter is just 24bits and this can overflow in ~4 seconds. With
the NO_HZ kernels in virtualized environment, there can be situations when
the guest is descheduled for longer duration, as a result we may miss the wrap
of the acpi counter. When TSC is used as a clocksource and acpi_pm timer is
being used as the watchdog clocksource this error in acpi_pm results in TSC
being marked as unstable, and essentially results in time dropping in chunks
of 4 seconds whenever this wrap is missed. Since the virtualized TSC is
reliable on VMware, we should always use the TSCs clocksource on VMware, so
we skip the verfication at runtime, by checking for the feature bit.
Since we reset the flag for mgeode systems too, i have combined
the mgeode case with the feature bit check.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hansen <jhansen@cardaccess-inc.com>
Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Impact: Changes timebase calibration on Vmware.
v3->v2 : Abstract the hypervisor detection and feature (tsc_freq) request
behind a hypervisor.c file
v2->v1 : Add a x86_hyper_vendor field to the cpuinfo_x86 structure.
This avoids multiple calls to the hypervisor detection function.
This patch adds function to detect if we are running under VMware.
The current way to check if we are on VMware is following,
# check if "hypervisor present bit" is set, if so read the 0x40000000
cpuid leaf and check for "VMwareVMware" signature.
# if the above fails, check the DMI vendors name for "VMware" string
if we find one we query the VMware hypervisor port to check if we are
under VMware.
The DMI + "VMware hypervisor port check" is needed for older VMware products,
which don't implement the hypervisor signature cpuid leaf.
Also note that since we are checking for the DMI signature the hypervisor
port should never be accessed on native hardware.
This patch also adds a hypervisor_get_tsc_freq function, instead of
calibrating the frequency which can be error prone in virtualized
environment, we ask the hypervisor for it. We get the frequency from
the hypervisor by accessing the hypervisor port if we are running on VMware.
Other hypervisors too can add code to the generic routine to get frequency on
their platform.
Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Impact: fix x86/Voyager boot
CONFIG_SMP is used for features which work on *all* x86 boxes.
CONFIG_X86_SMP is used for standard PC like x86 boxes (for things like
multi core and apics)
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Introduce a fast TSC-calibration method on sane hardware.
It only uses 17920 PIT timer ticks to calibrate the TSC, plus 256 ticks on
each side to make sure the TSC values were very close to the tick, so the
whole calibration takes 15ms. Yet, despite only takign 15ms,
we can actually give pretty stringent guarantees of accuracy:
- the code requires that we hit each 256-counter block at least 50 times,
so the TSC error is basically at *MOST* just a few PIT cycles off in
any direction. In practice, it's going to be about one microseconds
off (which is how long it takes to read the counter)
- so over 17920 PIT cycles, we can pretty much guarantee that the
calibration error is less than one half of a percent.
My testing bears this out: on my machine, the quick-calibration reports
2934.085kHz, while the slow one reports 2933.415.
Yes, the slower calibration is still more precise. For me, the slow
calibration is stable to within about one hundreth of a percent, so it's
(at a guess) roughly an order-and-a-half of magnitude more precise. The
longer you wait, the more precise you can be.
However, the nice thing about the fast TSC PIT synchronization is that
it's pretty much _guaranteed_ to give that 0.5% precision, and fail
gracefully (and very quickly) if it doesn't get it. And it really is
fairly simple (even if there's a lot of _details_ there, and I didn't get
all of those right ont he first try or even the second ;)
The patch says "110 insertions", but 63 of those new lines are actually
comments.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
---
arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c | 111 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 files changed, 110 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
The last changes made the calibration loop 250ms long which is far
too much. Try to do that more clever.
Experiments have shown that using a 10ms delay for the PIT based calibration
gives us a good enough value. If we have a reference (HPET/PMTIMER) and the
result of the PIT and the reference is close enough, then we can break out of
the calibration loop on a match right away and use the reference value.
Otherwise we just loop 3 times and decide then, which value to take.
One caveat is that for virtualized environments the PIT calibration often does
not work at all and I found out that 10us is a bit too short as well for the
reference to give a sane result. The solution here is to make the last loop
longer when the first two PIT calibrations failed.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The TSC calibration function is still very complicated, but this makes
it at least a little bit less so by moving the PIT part out into a
helper function of its own.
Tested-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-of-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Larry Finger reported at http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/1/90:
An ancient laptop of mine started throwing errors from b43legacy when
I started using 2.6.27 on it. This has been bisected to commit bfc0f59
"x86: merge tsc calibration".
The unification of the TSC code adopted mostly the 64bit code, which
prefers PMTIMER/HPET over the PIT calibration.
Larrys system has an AMD K6 CPU. Such systems are known to have
PMTIMER incarnations which run at double speed. This results in a
miscalibration of the TSC by factor 0.5. So the resulting calibrated
CPU/TSC speed is half of the real CPU speed, which means that the TSC
based delay loop will run half the time it should run. That might
explain why the b43legacy driver went berserk.
On the other hand we know about systems, where the PIT based
calibration results in random crap due to heavy SMI/SMM
disturbance. On those systems the PMTIMER/HPET based calibration logic
with SMI detection shows better results.
According to Alok also virtualized systems suffer from the PIT
calibration method.
The solution is to use a more wreckage aware aproach than the current
either/or decision.
1) reimplement the retry loop which was dropped from the 32bit code
during the merge. It repeats the calibration and selects the lowest
frequency value as this is probably the closest estimate to the real
frequency
2) Monitor the delta of the TSC values in the delay loop which waits
for the PIT counter to reach zero. If the maximum value is
significantly different from the minimum, then we have a pretty safe
indicator that the loop was disturbed by an SMI.
3) keep the pmtimer/hpet reference as a backup solution for systems
where the SMI disturbance is a permanent point of failure for PIT
based calibration
4) do the loop iteration for both methods, record the lowest value and
decide after all iterations finished.
5) Set a clear preference to PIT based calibration when the result
makes sense.
The implementation does the reference calibration based on
HPET/PMTIMER around the delay, which is necessary for the PIT anyway,
but keeps separate TSC values to ensure the "independency" of the
resulting calibration values.
Tested on various 32bit/64bit machines including Geode 266Mhz, AMD K6
(affected machine with a double speed pmtimer which I grabbed out of
the dump), Pentium class machines and AMD/Intel 64 bit boxen.
Bisected-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
I noticed that my sched_clock() was slow on a number of machine, so I
started looking at cpufreq.
The below seems to fix the problem for me.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: crash on non-TSC-equipped CPUs
Don't enable the TSC notifier if we *either*:
1. don't have a CPU, or
2. have a CPU with constant TSC.
In either of those cases, the notifier is either damaging (1) or useless(2).
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x7950): Section mismatch in reference from the function native_calibrate_tsc() to the function .init.text:tsc_read_refs()
The function native_calibrate_tsc() references
the function __init tsc_read_refs().
This is often because native_calibrate_tsc lacks a __init
annotation or the annotation of tsc_read_refs is wrong.
tsc_read_refs is called from native_calibrate_tsc which is not __init
and native_calibrate_tsc cannot be marked __init
Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Dave Hansen reported a build error on 32bit which went unnoticed
as newer gcc versions seem to optimize unused static functions
away before compiling them.
Make vread_tsc() depend on CONFIG_X86_64
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Integration generated a duplicate call to use_tsc_delay.
Particularly, the one that is done before we check for general
tsc usability seems wrong.
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This is for consistency with i386. We call use_tsc_delay()
at tsc initialization for x86_64, so we'll be always using it.
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Rename the paravirtualized calculate_cpu_khz to calibrate_tsc.
In all cases, we actually calibrate_tsc and use that as the cpu_khz value.
Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com>
Cc: Dan Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Unify the clocksource code.
Unify the tsc_init code.
Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com>
Cc: Dan Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Merge the tsc calibration code for the 32bit and 64bit kernel.
The paravirtualized calculate_cpu_khz for 64bit now points to the correct
tsc_calibrate code as in 32bit.
Original native_calculate_cpu_khz for 64 bit is now called as calibrate_cpu.
Also moved the recalibrate_cpu_khz function in the common file.
Note that this function is called only from powernow K7 cpu freq driver.
Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com>
Cc: Dan Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Move the basic global variable definitions and sched_clock handling in the
common "tsc.c" file.
- Unify notsc kernel command line handling for 32 bit and 64bit.
- Functional changes for 64bit.
- "tsc_disabled" is updated if "notsc" is passed at boottime.
- Fallback to jiffies for sched_clock, incase notsc is passed on
commandline.
Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com>
Cc: Dan Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
