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>
Thomas Gleixner