[PATCH 3.13 122/162] x86, apic: Handle a bad TSC more gracefully

From: Kamal Mostafa
Date: Thu Nov 06 2014 - 18:20:16 EST


3.13.11.11 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Bandan Das <bsd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e2fa274e498c33988efac0ba8b7e3120f7f92d78.1413393027.git.luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
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 d278736..f9e7786 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
@@ -1283,7 +1283,7 @@ 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);
@@ -1380,7 +1380,7 @@ 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 66af9af..dffebdd 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
@@ -974,14 +974,17 @@ 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;
}

--
1.9.1

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