Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Fri, 16 Dec 2011 11:45:30 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | [33/53] xen/pm_idle: Make pm_idle be default_idle under Xen. |
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3.1-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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>
--- arch/x86/include/asm/system.h | 1 + arch/x86/kernel/process.c | 8 ++++++++ arch/x86/xen/setup.c | 2 +- 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/system.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/system.h @@ -401,6 +401,7 @@ extern unsigned long arch_align_stack(un 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); --- 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(); --- 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(); }
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