x86/tsc: Verify TSC_ADJUST from idle

When entering idle, it's a good oportunity to verify that the TSC_ADJUST
MSR has not been tampered with (BIOS hiding SMM cycles). If tampering is
detected, emit a warning and restore it to the previous value.

This is especially important for machines, which mark the TSC reliable
because there is no watchdog clocksource available (SoCs).

This is not sufficient for HPC (NOHZ_FULL) situations where a CPU never
goes idle, but adding a timer to do the check periodically is not an option
either. On a machine, which has this issue, the check triggeres right
during boot, so there is a decent chance that the sysadmin will notice.

Rate limit the check to once per second and warn only once per cpu.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161119134017.732180441@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/tsc.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/tsc.h
index 1ec0595867d9..b896e9ee65bc 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/tsc.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/tsc.h
@@ -50,8 +50,10 @@ extern void check_tsc_sync_target(void);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_TSC
 extern void tsc_store_and_check_tsc_adjust(void);
+extern void tsc_verify_tsc_adjust(void);
 #else
 static inline void tsc_store_and_check_tsc_adjust(void) { }
+static inline void tsc_verify_tsc_adjust(void) { }
 #endif
 
 extern int notsc_setup(char *);