From e5fd47bfab2df0c2184cc0bf4245d8e1bb7724fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:02:02 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] xen/pm_idle: Make pm_idle be default_idle under Xen. The idea behind commit d91ee5863b71 ("cpuidle: replace xen access to x86 pm_idle and default_idle") was to have one call - disable_cpuidle() which would make pm_idle not be molested by other code. It disallows cpuidle_idle_call to be set to pm_idle (which is excellent). But in the select_idle_routine() and idle_setup(), the pm_idle can still be set to either: amd_e400_idle, mwait_idle or default_idle. This depends on some CPU flags (MWAIT) and in AMD case on the type of CPU. In case of mwait_idle we can hit some instances where the hypervisor (Amazon EC2 specifically) sets the MWAIT and we get: Brought up 2 CPUs invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 3.1.0-0.rc6.git0.3.fc16.x86_64 #1 RIP: e030:[] [] mwait_idle+0x6f/0xb4 ... Call Trace: [] cpu_idle+0xae/0xe8 [] cpu_bringup_and_idle+0xe/0x10 RIP [] mwait_idle+0x6f/0xb4 RSP In the case of amd_e400_idle we don't get so spectacular crashes, but we do end up making an MSR which is trapped in the hypervisor, and then follow it up with a yield hypercall. Meaning we end up going to hypervisor twice instead of just once. The previous behavior before v3.0 was that pm_idle was set to default_idle regardless of select_idle_routine/idle_setup. We want to do that, but only for one specific case: Xen. This patch does that. Fixes RH BZ #739499 and Ubuntu #881076 Reported-by: Stefan Bader Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- arch/x86/include/asm/system.h | 1 + arch/x86/kernel/process.c | 8 ++++++++ arch/x86/xen/setup.c | 2 +- 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/system.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/system.h index c2ff2a1d845e..2d2f01ce6dcb 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/system.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/system.h @@ -401,6 +401,7 @@ extern unsigned long arch_align_stack(unsigned long sp); extern void free_init_pages(char *what, unsigned long begin, unsigned long end); void default_idle(void); +bool set_pm_idle_to_default(void); void stop_this_cpu(void *dummy); diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c index b9b3b1a51643..ee5d4fbd53b4 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c @@ -403,6 +403,14 @@ void default_idle(void) EXPORT_SYMBOL(default_idle); #endif +bool set_pm_idle_to_default(void) +{ + bool ret = !!pm_idle; + + pm_idle = default_idle; + + return ret; +} void stop_this_cpu(void *dummy) { local_irq_disable(); diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/setup.c b/arch/x86/xen/setup.c index 38d0af4fefec..1093f80c162d 100644 --- a/arch/x86/xen/setup.c +++ b/arch/x86/xen/setup.c @@ -410,6 +410,6 @@ void __init xen_arch_setup(void) #endif disable_cpuidle(); boot_option_idle_override = IDLE_HALT; - + WARN_ON(set_pm_idle_to_default()); fiddle_vdso(); } -- 2.20.1