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| author | Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> | 2009-08-20 05:05:36 +0400 |
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| committer | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> | 2009-08-22 03:25:55 +0400 |
| commit | d0af9eed5aa91b6b7b5049cae69e5ea956fd85c3 (patch) | |
| tree | b9214db00ba734e5b943165082c30336f7a8425a /arch/x86/include | |
| parent | 269c861baa2fe7c114c3bc7831292758d29eb336 (diff) | |
| download | linux-d0af9eed5aa91b6b7b5049cae69e5ea956fd85c3.tar.xz | |
x86, pat/mtrr: Rendezvous all the cpus for MTRR/PAT init
SDM Vol 3a section titled "MTRR considerations in MP systems" specifies
the need for synchronizing the logical cpu's while initializing/updating
MTRR.
Currently Linux kernel does the synchronization of all cpu's only when
a single MTRR register is programmed/updated. During an AP online
(during boot/cpu-online/resume) where we initialize all the MTRR/PAT registers,
we don't follow this synchronization algorithm.
This can lead to scenarios where during a dynamic cpu online, that logical cpu
is initializing MTRR/PAT with cache disabled (cr0.cd=1) etc while other logical
HT sibling continue to run (also with cache disabled because of cr0.cd=1
on its sibling).
Starting from Westmere, VMX transitions with cr0.cd=1 don't work properly
(because of some VMX performance optimizations) and the above scenario
(with one logical cpu doing VMX activity and another logical cpu coming online)
can result in system crash.
Fix the MTRR initialization by doing rendezvous of all the cpus. During
boot and resume, we delay the MTRR/PAT init for APs till all the
logical cpu's come online and the rendezvous process at the end of AP's bringup,
will initialize the MTRR/PAT for all AP's.
For dynamic single cpu online, we synchronize all the logical cpus and
do the MTRR/PAT init on the AP that is coming online.
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/mtrr.h | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/mtrr.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/mtrr.h index a51ada8467de..d5366ec5cb8f 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/mtrr.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/mtrr.h @@ -121,8 +121,12 @@ extern int mtrr_del_page(int reg, unsigned long base, unsigned long size); extern void mtrr_centaur_report_mcr(int mcr, u32 lo, u32 hi); extern void mtrr_ap_init(void); extern void mtrr_bp_init(void); +extern void set_mtrr_aps_delayed_init(void); +extern void mtrr_aps_init(void); +extern void mtrr_bp_restore(void); extern int mtrr_trim_uncached_memory(unsigned long end_pfn); extern int amd_special_default_mtrr(void); +extern u32 mtrr_aps_delayed_init; # else static inline u8 mtrr_type_lookup(u64 addr, u64 end) { @@ -161,6 +165,9 @@ static inline void mtrr_centaur_report_mcr(int mcr, u32 lo, u32 hi) #define mtrr_ap_init() do {} while (0) #define mtrr_bp_init() do {} while (0) +#define set_mtrr_aps_delayed_init() do {} while (0) +#define mtrr_aps_init() do {} while (0) +#define mtrr_bp_restore() do {} while (0) # endif #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT |