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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-07-31 12:45:41 -0700
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-08-10 19:56:57 +0200
commitb6e61eef4f9f94714ac3ee4a5c96862d9bcd1836 (patch)
tree4bd7d4677261b13f2dcd1656673f5b7daa1ff37c /arch
parentf4b9a988685da6386d7f9a72df3098bcc3270526 (diff)
x86: Fix serialization in pit_expect_msb()
Wei Chong Tan reported a fast-PIT-calibration corner-case: | pit_expect_msb() is vulnerable to SMI disturbance corner case | in some platforms which causes /proc/cpuinfo to show wrong | CPU MHz value when quick_pit_calibrate() jumps to success | section. I think that the real issue isn't even an SMI - but the fact that in the very last iteration of the loop, there's no serializing instruction _after_ the last 'rdtsc'. So even in the absense of SMI's, we do have a situation where the cycle counter was read without proper serialization. The last check should be done outside the outer loop, since _inside_ the outer loop, we'll be testing that the PIT has the right MSB value has the right value in the next iteration. So only the _last_ iteration is special, because that's the one that will not check the PIT MSB value any more, and because the final 'get_cycles()' isn't serialized. In other words: - I'd like to move the PIT MSB check to after the last iteration, rather than in every iteration - I think we should comment on the fact that it's also a serializing instruction and so 'fences in' the TSC read. Here's a suggested replacement. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Reported-by: "Tan, Wei Chong" <wei.chong.tan@intel.com> Tested-by: "Tan, Wei Chong" <wei.chong.tan@intel.com> LKML-Reference: <B28277FD4E0F9247A3D55704C440A140D5D683F3@pgsmsx504.gar.corp.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c29
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
index 6e1a368d21d..71f4368b357 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
@@ -275,15 +275,20 @@ static unsigned long pit_calibrate_tsc(u32 latch, unsigned long ms, int loopmin)
* use the TSC value at the transitions to calculate a pretty
* good value for the TSC frequencty.
*/
+static inline int pit_verify_msb(unsigned char val)
+{
+ /* Ignore LSB */
+ inb(0x42);
+ return inb(0x42) == val;
+}
+
static inline int pit_expect_msb(unsigned char val, u64 *tscp, unsigned long *deltap)
{
int count;
u64 tsc = 0;
for (count = 0; count < 50000; count++) {
- /* Ignore LSB */
- inb(0x42);
- if (inb(0x42) != val)
+ if (!pit_verify_msb(val))
break;
tsc = get_cycles();
}
@@ -336,8 +341,7 @@ static unsigned long quick_pit_calibrate(void)
* to do that is to just read back the 16-bit counter
* once from the PIT.
*/
- inb(0x42);
- inb(0x42);
+ pit_verify_msb(0);
if (pit_expect_msb(0xff, &tsc, &d1)) {
for (i = 1; i <= MAX_QUICK_PIT_ITERATIONS; i++) {
@@ -348,8 +352,19 @@ static unsigned long quick_pit_calibrate(void)
* Iterate until the error is less than 500 ppm
*/
delta -= tsc;
- if (d1+d2 < delta >> 11)
- goto success;
+ if (d1+d2 >= delta >> 11)
+ continue;
+
+ /*
+ * Check the PIT one more time to verify that
+ * all TSC reads were stable wrt the PIT.
+ *
+ * This also guarantees serialization of the
+ * last cycle read ('d2') in pit_expect_msb.
+ */
+ if (!pit_verify_msb(0xfe - i))
+ break;
+ goto success;
}
}
printk("Fast TSC calibration failed\n");