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authorZachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>2007-03-05 00:30:34 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-03-05 07:57:52 -0800
commit7507ba34e827ca3c6bbcd34d20a8df8ba365fca6 (patch)
treeafa186f38ab55667074a06ade7ad6a1d1ec84d9e /arch/i386/kernel/vmi.c
parent0dc952dc3e6d96d554a19fa7bee3f3b1d55e3cff (diff)
[PATCH] vmi: timer fixes round two
Critical bugfixes for the VMI-Timer code. 1) Do not setup a one shot alarm if we are keeping the periodic alarm armed. Additionally, since the periodic alarm can be run at a lower rate than HZ, let's fixup the guard to the no-idle-hz mode appropriately. This fixes the bug where the no-idle-hz mode might have a higher interrupt rate than the non-idle case. 2) The interrupt handler can no longer adjust xtime due to nested lock acquisition. Drop this. We don't need to check for wallclock time at every tick, it can be done in userspace instead. 3) Add a bypass to disable noidle operation. This is useful as a last minute workaround, or testing measure. 4) The code to skip the IO_APIC timer testing (no_timer_check) should be conditional on IO_APIC, not SMP, since UP kernels can have this configured in as well. Signed-off-by: Dan Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/i386/kernel/vmi.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/i386/kernel/vmi.c23
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/vmi.c b/arch/i386/kernel/vmi.c
index bb5a7abf949c..8417f741fac8 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/vmi.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/vmi.c
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ static int disable_pse;
static int disable_sep;
static int disable_tsc;
static int disable_mtrr;
+static int disable_noidle;
/* Cached VMI operations */
struct {
@@ -255,7 +256,6 @@ static void vmi_nop(void)
}
/* For NO_IDLE_HZ, we stop the clock when halting the kernel */
-#ifdef CONFIG_NO_IDLE_HZ
static fastcall void vmi_safe_halt(void)
{
int idle = vmi_stop_hz_timer();
@@ -266,7 +266,6 @@ static fastcall void vmi_safe_halt(void)
local_irq_enable();
}
}
-#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGE_TYPE
@@ -742,12 +741,7 @@ static inline int __init activate_vmi(void)
(char *)paravirt_ops.save_fl);
patch_offset(&irq_save_disable_callout[IRQ_PATCH_DISABLE],
(char *)paravirt_ops.irq_disable);
-#ifndef CONFIG_NO_IDLE_HZ
- para_fill(safe_halt, Halt);
-#else
- vmi_ops.halt = vmi_get_function(VMI_CALL_Halt);
- paravirt_ops.safe_halt = vmi_safe_halt;
-#endif
+
para_fill(wbinvd, WBINVD);
/* paravirt_ops.read_msr = vmi_rdmsr */
/* paravirt_ops.write_msr = vmi_wrmsr */
@@ -881,6 +875,12 @@ static inline int __init activate_vmi(void)
#endif
custom_sched_clock = vmi_sched_clock;
}
+ if (!disable_noidle)
+ para_fill(safe_halt, Halt);
+ else {
+ vmi_ops.halt = vmi_get_function(VMI_CALL_Halt);
+ paravirt_ops.safe_halt = vmi_safe_halt;
+ }
/*
* Alternative instruction rewriting doesn't happen soon enough
@@ -914,9 +914,11 @@ void __init vmi_init(void)
local_irq_save(flags);
activate_vmi();
-#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC
no_timer_check = 1;
#endif
+
local_irq_restore(flags & X86_EFLAGS_IF);
}
@@ -942,7 +944,8 @@ static int __init parse_vmi(char *arg)
} else if (!strcmp(arg, "disable_mtrr")) {
clear_bit(X86_FEATURE_MTRR, boot_cpu_data.x86_capability);
disable_mtrr = 1;
- }
+ } else if (!strcmp(arg, "disable_noidle"))
+ disable_noidle = 1;
return 0;
}