linux/arch/x86
Suresh Siddha 84ac7cdbdd x86, mtrr, pat: Fix one cpu getting out of sync during resume
On laptops with core i5/i7, there were reports that after resume
graphics workloads were performing poorly on a specific AP, while
the other cpu's were ok. This was observed on a 32bit kernel
specifically.

Debug showed that the PAT init was not happening on that AP
during resume and hence it contributing to the poor workload
performance on that cpu.

On this system, resume flow looked like this:

1. BP starts the resume sequence and we reinit BP's MTRR's/PAT
   early on using mtrr_bp_restore()

2. Resume sequence brings all AP's online

3. Resume sequence now kicks off the MTRR reinit on all the AP's.

4. For some reason, between point 2 and 3, we moved from BP
   to one of the AP's. My guess is that printk() during resume
   sequence is contributing to this. We don't see similar
   behavior with the 64bit kernel but there is no guarantee that
   at this point the remaining resume sequence (after AP's bringup)
   has to happen on BP.

5. set_mtrr() was assuming that we are still on BP and skipped the
   MTRR/PAT init on that cpu (because of 1 above)

6. But we were on an AP and this led to not reprogramming PAT
   on this cpu leading to bad performance.

Fix this by doing unconditional mtrr_if->set_all() in set_mtrr()
during MTRR/PAT init. This might be unnecessary if we are still
running on BP. But it is of no harm and will guarantee that after
resume, all the cpu's will be in sync with respect to the
MTRR/PAT registers.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1301438292-28370-1-git-send-email-eric@anholt.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
Tested-by: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org	[v2.6.32+]
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2011-03-29 16:17:42 -07:00
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boot x86, build: Make sure mkpiggy fails on read error 2011-03-01 16:32:03 -08:00
configs defconfig reduction 2010-08-14 22:26:53 +02:00
crypto crypto: aesni-intel - fixed problem with packets that are not multiple of 64bytes 2011-03-27 10:29:39 +08:00
ia32 x86: mark associated mm when running a task in 32 bit compatibility mode 2011-03-23 16:36:53 -04:00
include/asm x86: Stop including <linux/delay.h> in two asm header files 2011-03-29 09:37:42 +02:00
kernel x86, mtrr, pat: Fix one cpu getting out of sync during resume 2011-03-29 16:17:42 -07:00
kvm Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2011-03-18 10:45:21 -07:00
lguest x86: Fix common misspellings 2011-03-18 10:39:30 +01:00
lib percpu: Omit segment prefix in the UP case for cmpxchg_double 2011-03-27 19:25:36 -07:00
math-emu x86, fpu: Unbreak FPU emulation 2010-05-10 13:37:16 -07:00
mm Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 2011-03-23 20:51:42 -07:00
oprofile x86: Use syscore_ops instead of sysdev classes and sysdevs 2011-03-23 22:15:54 +01:00
pci Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6 2011-03-18 10:56:44 -07:00
platform x86: Stop including <linux/delay.h> in two asm header files 2011-03-29 09:37:42 +02:00
power x86, tsc, sched: Recompute cyc2ns_offset's during resume from sleep states 2010-08-20 14:59:02 +02:00
tools
vdso mm: arch: rename in_gate_area_no_task to in_gate_area_no_mm 2011-03-23 16:36:55 -04:00
video
xen Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2011-03-22 10:41:36 -07:00
.gitignore
Kbuild x86: Add platform directory 2010-10-27 14:30:01 +02:00
Kconfig Merge branch 'syscore' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6 2011-03-25 21:07:59 -07:00
Kconfig.cpu x86: Fix common misspellings 2011-03-18 10:39:30 +01:00
Kconfig.debug kconfig: rename CONFIG_EMBEDDED to CONFIG_EXPERT 2011-01-20 17:02:05 -08:00
Makefile Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2010-10-21 13:06:00 -07:00
Makefile_32.cpu jump label: Add work around to i386 gcc asm goto bug 2010-10-29 14:45:29 -04:00