Allowing user code to map the HPET is problematic. HPET
implementations are notoriously buggy, and there are probably many
machines on which even MMIO reads from bogus HPET addresses are
problematic.
We have a report that the Dell Precision M2800 with:
ACPI: HPET 0x00000000C8FE6238 000038 (v01 DELL CBX3 01072009 AMI. 00000005)
is either so slow when accessing the HPET or actually hangs in some
regard, causing soft lockups to be reported if users do unexpected
things to the HPET.
The vclock HPET code has also always been a questionable speedup.
Accessing an HPET is exceedingly slow (on the order of several
microseconds), so the added overhead in requiring a syscall to read
the HPET is a small fraction of the total code of accessing it.
To avoid future problems, let's just delete the code entirely.
In the long run, this could actually be a speedup. Waiman Long as a
patch to optimize the case where multiple CPUs contend for the HPET,
but that won't help unless all the accesses are mediated by the
kernel.
Reported-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hpe.com>
Cc: Waiman Long <waiman.long@hpe.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/d2f90bba98db9905041cff294646d290d378f67a.1460074438.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull power management and ACPI fixes from Rafael Wysocki:
"Fixes for some issues discovered after recent changes and for some
that have just been found lately regardless of those changes
(intel_pstate, intel_idle, PM core, mailbox/pcc, turbostat) plus
support for some new CPU models (intel_idle, Intel RAPL driver,
turbostat) and documentation updates (intel_pstate, PM core).
Specifics:
- intel_pstate fixes for two issues exposed by the recent switch over
from using timers and for one issue introduced during the 4.4 cycle
plus new comments describing data structures used by the driver
(Rafael Wysocki, Srinivas Pandruvada).
- intel_idle fixes related to CPU offline/online (Richard Cochran).
- intel_idle support (new CPU IDs and state definitions mostly) for
Skylake-X and Kabylake processors (Len Brown).
- PCC mailbox driver fix for an out-of-bounds memory access that may
cause the kernel to panic() (Shanker Donthineni).
- New (missing) CPU ID for one apparently overlooked Haswell model in
the Intel RAPL power capping driver (Srinivas Pandruvada).
- Fix for the PM core's wakeup IRQs framework to make it work after
wakeup settings reconfiguration from sysfs (Grygorii Strashko).
- Runtime PM documentation update to make it describe what needs to
be done during device removal more precisely (Krzysztof Kozlowski).
- Stale comment removal cleanup in the cpufreq-dt driver (Viresh
Kumar).
- turbostat utility fixes and support for Broxton, Skylake-X and
Kabylake processors (Len Brown)"
* tag 'pm+acpi-4.6-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (28 commits)
PM / wakeirq: fix wakeirq setting after wakup re-configuration from sysfs
tools/power turbostat: work around RC6 counter wrap
tools/power turbostat: initial KBL support
tools/power turbostat: initial SKX support
tools/power turbostat: decode BXT TSC frequency via CPUID
tools/power turbostat: initial BXT support
tools/power turbostat: print IRTL MSRs
tools/power turbostat: SGX state should print only if --debug
intel_idle: Add KBL support
intel_idle: Add SKX support
intel_idle: Clean up all registered devices on exit.
intel_idle: Propagate hot plug errors.
intel_idle: Don't overreact to a cpuidle registration failure.
intel_idle: Setup the timer broadcast only on successful driver load.
intel_idle: Avoid a double free of the per-CPU data.
intel_idle: Fix dangling registration on error path.
intel_idle: Fix deallocation order on the driver exit path.
intel_idle: Remove redundant initialization calls.
intel_idle: Fix a helper function's return value.
intel_idle: remove useless return from void function.
...
* pm-core:
PM / wakeirq: fix wakeirq setting after wakup re-configuration from sysfs
PM / runtime: Document steps for device removal
* powercap:
powercap: intel_rapl: Add missing Haswell model
* pm-tools:
tools/power turbostat: work around RC6 counter wrap
tools/power turbostat: initial KBL support
tools/power turbostat: initial SKX support
tools/power turbostat: decode BXT TSC frequency via CPUID
tools/power turbostat: initial BXT support
tools/power turbostat: print IRTL MSRs
tools/power turbostat: SGX state should print only if --debug
Some processors use the Interrupt Response Time Limit (IRTL) MSR value
to describe the maximum IRQ response time latency for deep
package C-states. (Though others have the register, but do not use it)
Lets print it out to give insight into the cases where it is used.
IRTL begain in SNB, with PC3/PC6/PC7, and HSW added PC8/PC9/PC10.
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Pull KVM fixes from Paolo Bonzini:
"Miscellaneous bugfixes.
The ARM and s390 fixes are for new regressions from the merge window,
others are usual stable material"
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
compiler-gcc: disable -ftracer for __noclone functions
kvm: x86: make lapic hrtimer pinned
s390/mm/kvm: fix mis-merge in gmap handling
kvm: set page dirty only if page has been writable
KVM: x86: reduce default value of halt_poll_ns parameter
KVM: Hyper-V: do not do hypercall userspace exits if SynIC is disabled
KVM: x86: Inject pending interrupt even if pending nmi exist
arm64: KVM: Register CPU notifiers when the kernel runs at HYP
arm64: kvm: 4.6-rc1: Fix VTCR_EL2 VS setting
Pull x86 fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"This lot contains:
- Some fixups for the fallout of the topology consolidation which
unearthed AMD/Intel inconsistencies
- Documentation for the x86 topology management
- Support for AMD advanced power management bits
- Two simple cleanups removing duplicated code"
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/cpu: Add advanced power management bits
x86/thread_info: Merge two !__ASSEMBLY__ sections
x86/cpufreq: Remove duplicated TDP MSR macro definitions
x86/Documentation: Start documenting x86 topology
x86/cpu: Get rid of compute_unit_id
perf/x86/amd: Cleanup Fam10h NB event constraints
x86/topology: Fix AMD core count
The recently introduced batched invalidations mechanism uses its own
mechanism for shootdown. However, it does wrong accounting of
interrupts (e.g., inc_irq_stat is called for local invalidations),
trace-points (e.g., TLB_REMOTE_SHOOTDOWN for local invalidations) and
may break some platforms as it bypasses the invalidation mechanisms of
Xen and SGI UV.
This patch reuses the existing TLB flushing mechnaisms instead. We use
NULL as mm to indicate a global invalidation is required.
Fixes 72b252aed5 ("mm: send one IPI per CPU to TLB flush all entries after unmapping pages")
Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Reuse module loader code to write relocations, thereby eliminating the need
for architecture specific relocation code in livepatch. Specifically, reuse
the apply_relocate_add() function in the module loader to write relocations
instead of duplicating functionality in livepatch's arch-dependent
klp_write_module_reloc() function.
In order to accomplish this, livepatch modules manage their own relocation
sections (marked with the SHF_RELA_LIVEPATCH section flag) and
livepatch-specific symbols (marked with SHN_LIVEPATCH symbol section
index). To apply livepatch relocation sections, livepatch symbols
referenced by relocs are resolved and then apply_relocate_add() is called
to apply those relocations.
In addition, remove x86 livepatch relocation code and the s390
klp_write_module_reloc() function stub. They are no longer needed since
relocation work has been offloaded to module loader.
Lastly, mark the module as a livepatch module so that the module loader
canappropriately identify and initialize it.
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> # for s390 changes
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Windows lets applications choose the frequency of the timer tick,
and in Windows 10 the maximum rate was changed from 1024 Hz to
2048 Hz. Unfortunately, because of the way the Windows API
works, most applications who need a higher rate than the default
64 Hz will just do
timeGetDevCaps(&tc, sizeof(tc));
timeBeginPeriod(tc.wPeriodMin);
and pick the maximum rate. This causes very high CPU usage when
playing media or games on Windows 10, even if the guest does not
actually use the CPU very much, because the frequent timer tick
causes halt_poll_ns to kick in.
There is no really good solution, especially because Microsoft
could sooner or later bump the limit to 4096 Hz, but for now
the best we can do is lower a bit the upper limit for
halt_poll_ns. :-(
Reported-by: Jon Panozzo <jonp@lime-technology.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
For several years, the common practice has been to boot UVs with the
"nobau" parameter on the command line, to disable the BAU. We've
decided that it makes more sense to just disable the BAU by default in
the kernel, and provide the option to turn it on, if desired.
For now, having the on/off switch doesn't buy us any more than just
reversing the logic would, but we're working towards having the BAU
enabled by default on UV4. When those changes are in place, having the
on/off switch will make more sense than an enable flag, since the
default behavior will be different depending on the system version.
I've also added a bit of documentation for the new parameter to
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.
Signed-off-by: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Hedi Berriche <hedi@sgi.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1459451909-121845-1-git-send-email-athorlton@sgi.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
