Several fields in struct cpuinfo_x86 were not defined for the
!SMP case, likely to save space. However, those fields still
have some meaning for UP, and keeping them allows some #ifdef
removal from other files. The additional size of the UP kernel
from this change is not significant enough to worry about
keeping up the distinction:
text data bss dec hex filename
4737168 506459 972040 6215667 5ed7f3 vmlinux.o.before
4737444 506459 972040 6215943 5ed907 vmlinux.o.after
for a difference of 276 bytes for an example UP config.
If someone wants those 276 bytes back badly then it should
be implemented in a cleaner way.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Winchester <kjwinchester@gmail.com>
Cc: Steffen Persvold <sp@numascale.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1324428742-12498-1-git-send-email-kjwinchester@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Now that the cpu update level is available the Atom PSE errata
check can use it directly without reading the MSR again.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1318466795-7393-2-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
I got a request to make it easier to determine the microcode
update level on Intel CPUs. This patch adds a new "microcode"
field to /proc/cpuinfo.
The microcode level is also outputed on fatal machine checks
together with the other CPUID model information.
I removed the respective code from the microcode update driver,
it just reads the field from cpu_data. Also when the microcode
is updated it fills in the new values too.
I had to add a memory barrier to native_cpuid to prevent it
being optimized away when the result is not used.
This turns out to clean up further code which already got this
information manually. This is done in followon patches.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1318466795-7393-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fix the printk_once() so that it actually prints (didn't print before
due to a stray comma.)
[ hpa: changed to an incremental patch and adjusted the description
accordingly. ]
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1107151732480.18606@x980
Cc: <table@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Since 2.6.36 (23016bf0d2), Linux prints the existence of "epb" in /proc/cpuinfo,
Since 2.6.38 (d5532ee7b4), the x86_energy_perf_policy(8) utility has
been available in-tree to update MSR_IA32_ENERGY_PERF_BIAS.
However, the typical BIOS fails to initialize the MSR, presumably
because this is handled by high-volume shrink-wrap operating systems...
Linux distros, on the other hand, do not yet invoke x86_energy_perf_policy(8).
As a result, WSM-EP, SNB, and later hardware from Intel will run in its
default hardware power-on state (performance), which assumes that users
care for performance at all costs and not for energy efficiency.
While that is fine for performance benchmarks, the hardware's intended default
operating point is "normal" mode...
Initialize the MSR to the "normal" by default during kernel boot.
x86_energy_perf_policy(8) is available to change the default after boot,
should the user have a different preference.
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1107140051020.18606@x980
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
* 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, cpu: Fix detection of Celeron Covington stepping A1 and B0
Documentation, ABI: Update L3 cache index disable text
x86, AMD, cacheinfo: Fix L3 cache index disable checks
x86, AMD, cacheinfo: Fix fallout caused by max3 conversion
x86, cpu: Change NOP selection for certain Intel CPUs
x86, cpu: Clean up and unify the NOP selection infrastructure
x86, percpu: Use ASM_NOP4 instead of hardcoding P6_NOP4
x86, cpu: Move AMD Elan Kconfig under "Processor family"
Fix up trivial conflicts in alternative handling (commit dc326fca2b
"x86, cpu: Clean up and unify the NOP selection infrastructure" removed
some hacky 5-byte instruction stuff, while commit d430d3d7e6 "jump
label: Introduce static_branch() interface" renamed HAVE_JUMP_LABEL to
CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL in the code that went away)
If kernel intends to use enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB, it must ensure
IA32_MISC_ENABLE.Fast_String_Enable (bit 0) is set and CPUID.(EAX=07H, ECX=0H):
EBX[bit 9] also reports 1.
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305671358-14478-3-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Steppings A1 and B0 of Celeron Covington are currently misdetected as
Pentium II (Dixon). Fix it by removing the stepping check.
[ hpa: this fixes this specific bug... the CPUID documentation
specifies that the L2 cache size can disambiguate additional CPUs;
this patch does not fix that. ]
Signed-off-by: Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/201105162138.15416.linux@rainbow-software.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Unlike 64bit, 32bit has been using its own cpu_to_node_map[] for
CPU -> NUMA node mapping. Replace it with early_percpu variable
x86_cpu_to_node_map and share the mapping code with 64bit.
* USE_PERCPU_NUMA_NODE_ID is now enabled for 32bit too.
* x86_cpu_to_node_map and numa_set/clear_node() are moved from
numa_64 to numa. For now, on 32bit, x86_cpu_to_node_map is initialized
with 0 instead of NUMA_NO_NODE. This is to avoid introducing unexpected
behavior change and will be updated once init path is unified.
* srat_detect_node() is now enabled for x86_32 too. It calls
numa_set_node() and initializes the mapping making explicit
cpu_to_node_map[] updates from map/unmap_cpu_to_node() unnecessary.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com
Cc: yinghai@kernel.org
Cc: brgerst@gmail.com
Cc: gorcunov@gmail.com
Cc: penberg@kernel.org
Cc: shaohui.zheng@intel.com
Cc: rientjes@google.com
LKML-Reference: <1295789862-25482-15-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
The mapping between cpu/apicid and node is done via
apicid_to_node[] on 64bit and apicid_2_node[] +
apic->x86_32_numa_cpu_node() on 32bit. This difference makes it
difficult to further unify 32 and 64bit NUMA handling.
This patch unifies it by replacing both apicid_to_node[] and
apicid_2_node[] with __apicid_to_node[] array, which is accessed
by two accessors - set_apicid_to_node() and numa_cpu_node(). On
64bit, numa_cpu_node() always consults __apicid_to_node[]
directly while 32bit goes through apic->numa_cpu_node() method
to allow apic implementations to override it.
srat_detect_node() for amd cpus contains workaround for broken
NUMA configuration which assumes relationship between APIC ID,
HT node ID and NUMA topology. Leave it to access
__apicid_to_node[] directly as mapping through CPU might result
in undesirable behavior change. The comment is reformatted and
updated to note the ugliness.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com
Cc: yinghai@kernel.org
Cc: brgerst@gmail.com
Cc: gorcunov@gmail.com
Cc: shaohui.zheng@intel.com
Cc: rientjes@google.com
LKML-Reference: <1295789862-25482-14-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
* 'softirq-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
softirqs: Make wakeup_softirqd static
* 'x86-debug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, asm: Restore parentheses around one pushl_cfi argument
x86, asm: Fix ancient-GAS workaround
x86, asm: Fix CFI macro invocations to deal with shortcomings in gas
* 'x86-numa-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, numa: Assign CPUs to nodes in round-robin manner on fake NUMA
* 'x86-quirks-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: HPET force enable for CX700 / VIA Epia LT
* 'x86-setup-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, setup: Use string copy operation to optimze copy in kernel compression
* 'x86-uv-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, UV: Use allocated buffer in tlb_uv.c:tunables_read()
* 'x86-vm86-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, vm86: Fix preemption bug for int1 debug and int3 breakpoint handlers.
commit d9c2d5ac6a "x86, numa: Use near(er)
online node instead of roundrobin for NUMA" changed NUMA initialization on
Intel to choose the nearest online node or first node. Fake NUMA would be
better of with round-robin initialization, instead of the all CPUS on
first node. Change the choice of first node, back to round-robin.
For testing NUMA kernel behaviour without cpusets and NUMA aware
applications, it would be better to have cpus in different nodes, rather
than all in a single node. With cpusets migration of tasks scenarios
cannot not be tested.
I guess having it round-robin shouldn't affect the use cases for all cpus
on the first node.
The code comments in arch/x86/mm/numa_64.c:759 indicate that this used to
be the case, which was changed by commit d9c2d5ac6. It changed from
roundrobin to nearer or first node. And I couldn't find any reason for
this change in its changelog.
Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
After uncapping the CPUID level, we need to also re-run the CPU
feature detection code.
This resolves kernel bugzilla 16322.
Reported-by: boris64 <bugzilla.kernel.org@boris64.net>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> v2.6.29..2.6.35
LKML-Reference: <tip-@git.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
boot_cpu_id is there for historical reasons and was renamed to
boot_cpu_physical_apicid in patch:
c70dcb7 x86: change boot_cpu_id to boot_cpu_physical_apicid
However, there are some remaining occurrences of boot_cpu_id that are
never touched in the kernel and thus its value is always 0.
This patch removes boot_cpu_id completely.
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <1279731838-1522-8-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
* 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, hypervisor: add missing <linux/module.h>
Modify the VMware balloon driver for the new x86_hyper API
x86, hypervisor: Export the x86_hyper* symbols
x86: Clean up the hypervisor layer
x86, HyperV: fix up the license to mshyperv.c
x86: Detect running on a Microsoft HyperV system
x86, cpu: Make APERF/MPERF a normal table-driven flag
x86, k8: Fix build error when K8_NB is disabled
x86, cacheinfo: Disable index in all four subcaches
x86, cacheinfo: Make L3 cache info per node
x86, cacheinfo: Reorganize AMD L3 cache structure
x86, cacheinfo: Turn off L3 cache index disable feature in virtualized environments
x86, cacheinfo: Unify AMD L3 cache index disable checking
cpufreq: Unify sysfs attribute definition macros
powernow-k8: Fix frequency reporting
x86, cpufreq: Add APERF/MPERF support for AMD processors
x86: Unify APERF/MPERF support
powernow-k8: Add core performance boost support
x86, cpu: Add AMD core boosting feature flag to /proc/cpuinfo
Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c and
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c
Atom erratum AAE44/AAF40/AAG38/AAH41:
"If software clears the PS (page size) bit in a present PDE (page
directory entry), that will cause linear addresses mapped through this
PDE to use 4-KByte pages instead of using a large page after old TLB
entries are invalidated. Due to this erratum, if a code fetch uses
this PDE before the TLB entry for the large page is invalidated then
it may fetch from a different physical address than specified by
either the old large page translation or the new 4-KByte page
translation. This erratum may also cause speculative code fetches from
incorrect addresses."
[http://download.intel.com/design/processor/specupdt/319536.pdf]
Where as commit 211b3d03c7 seems to
workaround errata AAH41 (mixed 4K TLBs) it reduces the window of
opportunity for the bug to occur and does not totally remove it. This
patch disables mixed 4K/4MB page tables totally avoiding the page
splitting and not tripping this processor issue.
This is based on an original patch by Colin King.
Originally-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Cc: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1269271251-19775-1-git-send-email-colin.king@canonical.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Initialize this CPUID flag feature in common code. It could be made a
standalone function later, maybe, if more functionality is duplicated.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <1270065406-1814-4-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Support for the PMU's BTS features has been upstreamed in
v2.6.32, but we still have the old and disabled ptrace-BTS,
as Linus noticed it not so long ago.
It's buggy: TIF_DEBUGCTLMSR is trampling all over that MSR without
regard for other uses (perf) and doesn't provide the flexibility
needed for perf either.
Its users are ptrace-block-step and ptrace-bts, since ptrace-bts
was never used and ptrace-block-step can be implemented using a
much simpler approach.
So axe all 3000 lines of it. That includes the *locked_memory*()
APIs in mm/mlock.c as well.
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100325135413.938004390@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
On UV systems, the TSC is not synchronized across blades. The
sched_clock_cpu() function is returning values that can go
backwards (I've seen as much as 8 seconds) when switching
between cpus.
As each cpu comes up, early_init_intel() will currently set the
sched_clock_stable flag true. When mark_tsc_unstable() runs, it
clears the flag, but this only occurs once (the first time a cpu
comes up whose TSC is not synchronized with cpu 0). After this,
early_init_intel() will set the flag again as the next cpu comes
up.
Only set sched_clock_stable if tsc has not been marked unstable.
Signed-off-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20100301174815.GC8224@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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>
When there are a large number of processors in a system, there
is an excessive amount of messages sent to the system console.
It's estimated that with 4096 processors in a system, and the
console baudrate set to 56K, the startup messages will take
about 84 minutes to clear the serial port.
This set of patches limits the number of repetitious messages
which contain no additional information. Much of this information
is obtainable from the /proc and /sysfs. Some of the messages
are also sent to the kernel log buffer as KERN_DEBUG messages so
dmesg can be used to examine more closely any details specific to
a problem.
The new cpu bootup sequence for system_state == SYSTEM_BOOTING:
Booting Node 0, Processors #1#2#3#4#5#6#7 Ok.
Booting Node 1, Processors #8#9#10#11#12#13#14#15 Ok.
...
Booting Node 3, Processors #56#57#58#59#60#61#62#63 Ok.
Brought up 64 CPUs
After the system is running, a single line boot message is displayed
when CPU's are hotplugged on:
Booting Node %d Processor %d APIC 0x%x
Status of the following lines:
CPU: Physical Processor ID: printed once (for boot cpu)
CPU: Processor Core ID: printed once (for boot cpu)
CPU: Hyper-Threading is disabled printed once (for boot cpu)
CPU: Thermal monitoring enabled printed once (for boot cpu)
CPU %d/0x%x -> Node %d: removed
CPU %d is now offline: only if system_state == RUNNING
Initializing CPU#%d: KERN_DEBUG
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B219E28.8080601@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
CPU to node mapping is set via the following sequence:
1. numa_init_array(): Set up roundrobin from cpu to online node
2. init_cpu_to_node(): Set that according to apicid_to_node[]
according to srat only handle the node that
is online, and leave other cpu on node
without ram (aka not online) to still
roundrobin.
3. later call srat_detect_node for Intel/AMD, will use first_online
node or nearby node.
Problem is that setup_per_cpu_areas() is not called between 2 and 3,
the per_cpu for cpu on node with ram is on different node, and could
put that on node with two hops away.
So try to optimize this and add find_near_online_node() and call
init_cpu_to_node().
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <4B07A739.3030104@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Move the APERFMPERF capacility into a X86_FEATURE flag so that it
can be used outside of the acpi cpufreq driver.
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: cpufreq@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
No code changes except printk levels (although some of the K6
mtrr code might be clearer if there were a few as would
splitting out some of the intel cache code).
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The hooks that we modify are:
- Page fault handler (to handle kmemcheck faults)
- Debug exception handler (to hide pages after single-stepping
the instruction that caused the page fault)
Also redefine memset() to use the optimized version if kmemcheck is
enabled.
(Thanks to Pekka Enberg for minimizing the impact on the page fault
handler.)
As kmemcheck doesn't handle MMX/SSE instructions (yet), we also disable
the optimized xor code, and rely instead on the generic C implementation
in order to avoid false-positive warnings.
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no>
[whitespace fixlet]
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
[rebased for mainline inclusion]
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no>
should not call that if apic is disabled.
[ Impact: fix crash on certain UP configs ]
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A09CCBB.2000306@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: 32/64-bit consolidation
In a first step, this allows fixing phys_addr_valid() for PAE (which
until now reported all addresses to be valid). Subsequently, this will
also allow simplifying some MTRR handling code.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <49B9101E.76E4.0078.0@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: debuggability and micro-optimization
Putting whatever is possible into the (final) .rodata section increases
the likelihood of catching memory corruption bugs early, and reduces
false cache line sharing.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <49B90961.76E4.0078.0@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup and code size reduction on 64-bit
This code is only applied to Intel Pentium and AMD K7 32-bit cpus.
Move those checks to intel_init()/amd_init() for 32-bit
so 64-bit will not build this code.
Also change to use cpu_index check to see if we need to emit warning.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <49B377D2.8030108@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
If the TSC is constant and non-stop, also set it reliable.
(We will turn this off in DMI quirks for multi-chassis systems)
The performance number on a 16-way Nehalem system running
32 tasks that context-switch between each other is significant:
sched_clock_stable=0 sched_clock_stable=1
.................... ....................
22.456925 million/sec 24.306972 million/sec [+8.2%]
lmbench's "lat_ctx -s 0 2" goes from 0.63 microseconds to
0.59 microseconds - a 6.7% increase in context-switching
performance.
Perfstat of 1 million pipe context switches between two tasks:
Performance counter stats for './pipe-test-1m':
[before] [after]
............ ............
37621.421089 36436.848378 task clock ticks (msecs)
0 0 CPU migrations (events)
2000274 2000189 context switches (events)
194 193 pagefaults (events)
8433799643 8171016416 CPU cycles (events) -3.21%
8370133368 8180999694 instructions (events) -2.31%
4158565 3895941 cache references (events) -6.74%
44312 46264 cache misses (events)
2349.287976 2279.362465 wall-time (msecs) -3.06%
The speedup comes straight from the reduction in the instruction
count. sched_clock_cpu() got simpler and the whole workload thus
executes faster.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
For Intel 7400 series CPUs, the recommendation is to use a clflush on the
monitored address just before monitor and mwait pair [1].
This clflush makes sure that there are no false wakeups from mwait when the
monitored address was recently written to.
[1] "MONITOR/MWAIT Recommendations for Intel Xeon Processor 7400 series"
section in specification update document of 7400 series
http://download.intel.com/design/xeon/specupdt/32033601.pdf
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: re-enable CPUID unmasking on affected processors
As far as I am capable of discerning from the documentation,
MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE should be available for all family 0xf CPUs, as
well as family 6 for model >= 0xd (newer Pentium M).
The documentation on this isn't ideal, so we need to be on the lookout
for errors, still.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Impact: fix boot hang on pre-model-15 Intel CPUs
rdmsrl_safe() does not work in very early bootup code yet, because we
dont have the pagefault handler installed yet so exception section
does not get parsed. rdmsr_safe() will just crash and hang the bootup.
So limit the MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE MSR read to those CPU types that
support it.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: Cleanup
When PAT was originally introduced, it was handled specially for a few
reasons:
- PAT bugs are hard to track down, so we wanted to maintain a
whitelist of CPUs.
- The i386 and x86-64 CPUID code was not yet unified.
Both of these are now obsolete, so handle PAT like any other features,
including ordinary feature blacklisting due to known bugs.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Impact: Fixes crashes with misconfigured BIOSes on XSAVE hardware
Avuton Olrich reported early boot crashes with v2.6.28 and
bisected it down to dc1e35c6e9
("x86, xsave: enable xsave/xrstor on cpus with xsave support").
If the CPUID limit bit in MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE is set, clear it to
make all CPUID information available. This is required for some
features to work, in particular XSAVE.
Reported-and-bisected-by: Avuton Olrich <avuton@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Avuton Olrich <avuton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
