[3.16.y-ckt extended stable] Patch "x86, apic: Handle a bad TSC more gracefully" has been added to staging queue
Luis Henriques
luis.henriques at canonical.com
Mon Nov 10 11:33:01 UTC 2014
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled
x86, apic: Handle a bad TSC more gracefully
to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree
which can be found at:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y-queue
This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt1.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please
reply to this email.
For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable
Thanks.
-Luis
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>From 0fd3f13da24ccf7d45e3dd50ec0182fb16e99363 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto at amacapital.net>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 10:12:07 -0700
Subject: x86, apic: Handle a bad TSC more gracefully
commit b47dcbdc5161d3d5756f430191e2840d9b855492 upstream.
If the TSC is unusable or disabled, then this patch fixes:
- Confusion while trying to clear old APIC interrupts.
- Division by zero and incorrect programming of the TSC deadline
timer.
This fixes boot if the CPU has a TSC deadline timer but a missing or
broken TSC. The failure to boot can be observed with qemu using
-cpu qemu64,-tsc,+tsc-deadline
This also happens to me in nested KVM for unknown reasons.
With this patch, I can boot cleanly (although without a TSC).
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto at amacapital.net>
Cc: Bandan Das <bsd at redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e2fa274e498c33988efac0ba8b7e3120f7f92d78.1413393027.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c | 4 ++--
arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c | 5 ++++-
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
index ad28db7e6bde..62d8c4a944c0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
@@ -1297,7 +1297,7 @@ void setup_local_APIC(void)
unsigned int value, queued;
int i, j, acked = 0;
unsigned long long tsc = 0, ntsc;
- long long max_loops = cpu_khz;
+ long long max_loops = cpu_khz ? cpu_khz : 1000000;
if (cpu_has_tsc)
rdtscll(tsc);
@@ -1394,7 +1394,7 @@ void setup_local_APIC(void)
break;
}
if (queued) {
- if (cpu_has_tsc) {
+ if (cpu_has_tsc && cpu_khz) {
rdtscll(ntsc);
max_loops = (cpu_khz << 10) - (ntsc - tsc);
} else
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
index ea030319b321..ae7c9688e514 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
@@ -1170,14 +1170,17 @@ void __init tsc_init(void)
x86_init.timers.tsc_pre_init();
- if (!cpu_has_tsc)
+ if (!cpu_has_tsc) {
+ setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_TSC_DEADLINE_TIMER);
return;
+ }
tsc_khz = x86_platform.calibrate_tsc();
cpu_khz = tsc_khz;
if (!tsc_khz) {
mark_tsc_unstable("could not calculate TSC khz");
+ setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_TSC_DEADLINE_TIMER);
return;
}
--
2.1.0
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