Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161189AbWJKTy0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:54:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161191AbWJKTy0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:54:26 -0400 Received: from e32.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.150]:16297 "EHLO e32.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161189AbWJKTyZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:54:25 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] i386 Time: Avoid PIT SMP lockups From: john stultz To: Andrew Morton Cc: Andi Kleen , lkml Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 12:54:21 -0700 Message-Id: <1160596462.5973.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2992 Lines: 92 Andrew: I think this is 2.6.19 material, but probably should go through an -mm or two. thanks -john This patch avoids possible PIT livelock issues seen on SMP systems (and reported by Andi), by not allowing it as a clocksource on SMP boxes. However, since the PIT may no longer be present, we have to properly handle the cases where SMP systems have TSC skew and fall back from the TSC. Since the PIT isn't there, it would "fall back" to the TSC again. So this changes the jiffies rating to 1, and the TSC-bad rating value to 0. Thus you will get the following behavior priority on i386 systems: tsc [if present & stable] hpet [if present] cyclone [if present] acpi_pm [if present] pit [if UP] jiffies Rather then the current more complicated: tsc [if present & stable] hpet [if present] cyclone [if present] acpi_pm [if present] pit [if cpus < 4] tsc [if present & unstable] jiffies Signed-off-by: John Stultz diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/i8253.c b/arch/i386/kernel/i8253.c index 477b24d..9a0060b 100644 --- a/arch/i386/kernel/i8253.c +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/i8253.c @@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ static struct clocksource clocksource_pi static int __init init_pit_clocksource(void) { - if (num_possible_cpus() > 4) /* PIT does not scale! */ + if (num_possible_cpus() > 1) /* PIT does not scale! */ return 0; clocksource_pit.mult = clocksource_hz2mult(CLOCK_TICK_RATE, 20); diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/tsc.c b/arch/i386/kernel/tsc.c index b8fa0a8..fbc9582 100644 --- a/arch/i386/kernel/tsc.c +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/tsc.c @@ -349,8 +349,8 @@ static int tsc_update_callback(void) int change = 0; /* check to see if we should switch to the safe clocksource: */ - if (clocksource_tsc.rating != 50 && check_tsc_unstable()) { - clocksource_tsc.rating = 50; + if (clocksource_tsc.rating != 0 && check_tsc_unstable()) { + clocksource_tsc.rating = 0; clocksource_reselect(); change = 1; } @@ -461,7 +461,7 @@ static int __init init_tsc_clocksource(v clocksource_tsc.shift); /* lower the rating if we already know its unstable: */ if (check_tsc_unstable()) - clocksource_tsc.rating = 50; + clocksource_tsc.rating = 0; init_timer(&verify_tsc_freq_timer); verify_tsc_freq_timer.function = verify_tsc_freq; diff --git a/kernel/time/jiffies.c b/kernel/time/jiffies.c index 126bb30..a99b2a6 100644 --- a/kernel/time/jiffies.c +++ b/kernel/time/jiffies.c @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ static cycle_t jiffies_read(void) struct clocksource clocksource_jiffies = { .name = "jiffies", - .rating = 0, /* lowest rating*/ + .rating = 1, /* lowest valid rating*/ .read = jiffies_read, .mask = 0xffffffff, /*32bits*/ .mult = NSEC_PER_JIFFY << JIFFIES_SHIFT, /* details above */ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/