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| author | Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> | 2011-11-21 18:02:02 -0500 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2011-12-21 12:58:31 -0800 |
| commit | dc43883928066a7fc474755c6e96f8fae348fe59 (patch) | |
| tree | 12087393b6ea9884346391191ca8a5f0bcb453dd /arch/x86 | |
| parent | 572b113fe89287f81dad1a0f9057d48e0b17e910 (diff) | |
xen/pm_idle: Make pm_idle be default_idle under Xen.
commit e5fd47bfab2df0c2184cc0bf4245d8e1bb7724fb upstream.
The idea behind commit d91ee5863b71 ("cpuidle: replace xen access to x86
pm_idle and default_idle") was to have one call - disable_cpuidle()
which would make pm_idle not be molested by other code. It disallows
cpuidle_idle_call to be set to pm_idle (which is excellent).
But in the select_idle_routine() and idle_setup(), the pm_idle can still
be set to either: amd_e400_idle, mwait_idle or default_idle. This
depends on some CPU flags (MWAIT) and in AMD case on the type of CPU.
In case of mwait_idle we can hit some instances where the hypervisor
(Amazon EC2 specifically) sets the MWAIT and we get:
Brought up 2 CPUs
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 3.1.0-0.rc6.git0.3.fc16.x86_64 #1
RIP: e030:[<ffffffff81015d1d>] [<ffffffff81015d1d>] mwait_idle+0x6f/0xb4
...
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff8100e2ed>] cpu_idle+0xae/0xe8
[<ffffffff8149ee78>] cpu_bringup_and_idle+0xe/0x10
RIP [<ffffffff81015d1d>] mwait_idle+0x6f/0xb4
RSP <ffff8801d28ddf10>
In the case of amd_e400_idle we don't get so spectacular crashes, but we
do end up making an MSR which is trapped in the hypervisor, and then
follow it up with a yield hypercall. Meaning we end up going to
hypervisor twice instead of just once.
The previous behavior before v3.0 was that pm_idle was set to
default_idle regardless of select_idle_routine/idle_setup.
We want to do that, but only for one specific case: Xen. This patch
does that.
Fixes RH BZ #739499 and Ubuntu #881076
Reported-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/system.h | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/process.c | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/xen/setup.c | 2 |
3 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/system.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/system.h index c2ff2a1d845e..2d2f01ce6dcb 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/system.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/system.h @@ -401,6 +401,7 @@ extern unsigned long arch_align_stack(unsigned long sp); extern void free_init_pages(char *what, unsigned long begin, unsigned long end); void default_idle(void); +bool set_pm_idle_to_default(void); void stop_this_cpu(void *dummy); diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c index e7e3b019c439..30eb651d1fae 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c @@ -403,6 +403,14 @@ void default_idle(void) EXPORT_SYMBOL(default_idle); #endif +bool set_pm_idle_to_default(void) +{ + bool ret = !!pm_idle; + + pm_idle = default_idle; + + return ret; +} void stop_this_cpu(void *dummy) { local_irq_disable(); diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/setup.c b/arch/x86/xen/setup.c index 46d6d21dbdbe..79dfb5715201 100644 --- a/arch/x86/xen/setup.c +++ b/arch/x86/xen/setup.c @@ -448,6 +448,6 @@ void __init xen_arch_setup(void) #endif disable_cpuidle(); boot_option_idle_override = IDLE_HALT; - + WARN_ON(set_pm_idle_to_default()); fiddle_vdso(); } |