native_{rdmsr,wrmsr}_safe_regs are two new interfaces which allow
presetting of a subset of eight x86 GPRs before executing the rd/wrmsr
instructions. This is needed at least on AMD K8 for accessing an erratum
workaround MSR.
Originally based on an idea by H. Peter Anvin.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com>
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Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
<linux/types.h> is only required for __KERNEL__ as whole file is covered with it
Also fixed some spacing issues for usr/include/asm-x86/msr.h
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@kernel.org>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Provide for concurrent MSR writes on all the CPUs in the cpumask. Also,
add a temporary workaround for smp_call_function_many which skips the
CPU we're executing on.
Bart: zero out rv struct which is allocated on stack.
CC: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Add a struct representing a 64bit MSR pair consisting of a low and high
register part and convert msr_info to use it. Also, rename msr-on-cpu.c
to msr.c.
Side note: Put the cpumask.h include in __KERNEL__ space thus fixing an
allmodconfig build failure in the headers_check target.
CC: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
* 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (241 commits)
sched, trace: update trace_sched_wakeup()
tracing/ftrace: don't trace on early stage of a secondary cpu boot, v3
Revert "x86: disable X86_PTRACE_BTS"
ring-buffer: prevent false positive warning
ring-buffer: fix dangling commit race
ftrace: enable format arguments checking
x86, bts: memory accounting
x86, bts: add fork and exit handling
ftrace: introduce tracing_reset_online_cpus() helper
tracing: fix warnings in kernel/trace/trace_sched_switch.c
tracing: fix warning in kernel/trace/trace.c
tracing/ring-buffer: remove unused ring_buffer size
trace: fix task state printout
ftrace: add not to regex on filtering functions
trace: better use of stack_trace_enabled for boot up code
trace: add a way to enable or disable the stack tracer
x86: entry_64 - introduce FTRACE_ frame macro v2
tracing/ftrace: add the printk-msg-only option
tracing/ftrace: use preempt_enable_no_resched_notrace in ring_buffer_time_stamp()
x86, bts: correctly report invalid bts records
...
Fixed up trivial conflict in scripts/recordmcount.pl due to SH bits
being already partly merged by the SH merge.
Impact: fix a crash/hard-reboot on certain configs while enabling cpu runtime
On some archs, the boot of a secondary cpu can have an early fragile state.
On x86-64, the pda is not initialized on the first stage of a cpu boot but
it is needed to get the cpu number and the current task pointer. This data
is needed during tracing. As they were dereferenced at this stage, we got a
crash while tracing a cpu being enabled at runtime.
Some other archs like ia64 can have such kind of issue too.
Changes on v2:
We dropped the previous solution of a per-arch called function to guess the
current state of a cpu. That could slow down the tracing.
This patch removes the -pg flag on arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c where
the low level cpu boot functions exist, on start_secondary() and a helper
function used at this stage.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: micro-optimization
Is there any reason why x86 rdtscll have to use the out of line
function instead of inline __native_read_tsc()? native_read_tsc and
__native_read_tsc is essentially the same functions.
Patch to let x86 rdtscll() to use the inline version of read_tsc.
Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
in scheduler-intense workloads native_read_tsc() overhead accounts for
20% of the system overhead:
659567 system_call 41222.9375
686796 schedule 435.7843
718382 __switch_to 665.1685
823875 switch_mm 4526.7857
1883122 native_read_tsc 55385.9412
9761990 total 2.8468
this is large part due to the rdtsc_barrier() that is done before
and after reading the TSC.
But sched_clock() is not a precise clock in the GTOD sense, using such
barriers is completely pointless. So remove the barriers and only use
them in vget_cycles().
This improves lat_ctx performance by about 5%.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The rdmsr instruction(et al) for i386 and x86-64 are semantically same.
The only difference is how gcc interpret constraint "A" for these targets.
Signed-off-by: Jike Song <albcamus@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Change header guards named "ASM_X86__*" to "_ASM_X86_*" since:
a. the double underscore is ugly and pointless.
b. no leading underscore violates namespace constraints.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
