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On some platforms such as the Dell XPS 13 laptop the firmware disables turbo
when the machine is disconnected from AC, and viceversa it enables it again
when it's reconnected. In these cases a _PPC ACPI notification is issued.
The scheduler needs to know freq_max for frequency-invariant calculations.
To account for turbo availability to come and go, record freq_max at boot as
if turbo was available and store it in a helper variable. Use a setter
function to swap between freq_base and freq_max every time turbo goes off or on.
Signed-off-by: Giovanni Gherdovich <ggherdovich@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200122151617.531-7-ggherdovich@suse.cz
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The scheduler needs the ratio freq_curr/freq_max for frequency-invariant
accounting. On all ATOM CPUs prior to Goldmont, set freq_max to the 1-core
turbo ratio.
We intended to perform tests validating that this patch doesn't regress in
terms of energy efficiency, given that this is the primary concern on Atom
processors. Alas, we found out that turbostat doesn't support reading RAPL
interfaces on our test machine (Airmont), and we don't have external equipment
to measure power consumption; all we have is the performance results of the
benchmarks we ran.
Test machine:
Platform : Dell Wyse 3040 Thin Client[1]
CPU Model : Intel Atom x5-Z8350 (aka Cherry Trail, aka Airmont)
Fam/Mod/Ste : 6:76:4
Topology : 1 socket, 4 cores / 4 threads
Memory : 2G
Storage : onboard flash, XFS filesystem
[1] https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/wyse-endpoints-and-software/wyse-3040-thin-client/spd/wyse-3040-thin-client
Base frequency and available turbo levels (MHz):
Min Operating Freq 266 |***
Low Freq Mode 800 |********
Base Freq 2400 |************************
4 Cores 2800 |****************************
3 Cores 2800 |****************************
2 Cores 3200 |********************************
1 Core 3200 |********************************
Tested kernels:
Baseline : v5.4-rc1, intel_pstate passive, schedutil
Comparison #1 : v5.4-rc1, intel_pstate active , powersave
Comparison #2 : v5.4-rc1, this patch, intel_pstate passive, schedutil
tbench, hackbench and kernbench performed the same under all three kernels;
dbench ran faster with intel_pstate/powersave and the git unit tests were a
lot faster with intel_pstate/powersave and invariant schedutil wrt the
baseline. Not that any of this is terrbily interesting anyway, one doesn't buy
an Atom system to go fast. Power consumption regressions aren't expected but
we lack the equipment to make that measurement. Turbostat seems to think that
reading RAPL on this machine isn't a good idea and we're trusting that
decision.
comparison ratio of performance with baseline; 1.00 means neutral,
lower is better:
I_PSTATE FREQ-INV
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dbench 0.90 ~
kernbench 0.98 0.97
gitsource 0.63 0.43
Signed-off-by: Giovanni Gherdovich <ggherdovich@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200122151617.531-6-ggherdovich@suse.cz
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The scheduler needs the ratio freq_curr/freq_max for frequency-invariant
accounting. On GOLDMONT (aka Apollo Lake), GOLDMONT_D (aka Denverton) and
GOLDMONT_PLUS CPUs (aka Gemini Lake) set freq_max to the highest frequency
reported by the CPU.
The encoding of turbo ratios for GOLDMONT* is identical to the one for
SKYLAKE_X, but we treat the Atom case apart because we want to set freq_max to
a higher value, thus the ratio freq_curr/freq_max to be lower, leading to more
conservative frequency selections (favoring power efficiency).
Signed-off-by: Giovanni Gherdovich <ggherdovich@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200122151617.531-5-ggherdovich@suse.cz
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The scheduler needs the ratio freq_curr/freq_max for frequency-invariant
accounting. On Xeon Phi CPUs set freq_max to the second-highest frequency
reported by the CPU.
Xeon Phi CPUs such as Knights Landing and Knights Mill typically have either
one or two turbo frequencies; in the former case that's 100 MHz above the base
frequency, in the latter case the two levels are 100 MHz and 200 MHz above
base frequency.
We set freq_max to the second-highest frequency reported by the CPU. This
could be the base frequency (if only one turbo level is available) or the first
turbo level (if two levels are available). The rationale is to compromise
between power efficiency or performance -- going straight to max turbo would
favor efficiency and blindly using base freq would favor performance.
For reference, this is how MSR_TURBO_RATIO_LIMIT must be parsed on a Xeon Phi
to get the available frequencies (taken from a comment in turbostat's sources):
[0] -- Reserved
[7:1] -- Base value of number of active cores of bucket 1.
[15:8] -- Base value of freq ratio of bucket 1.
[20:16] -- +ve delta of number of active cores of bucket 2.
i.e. active cores of bucket 2 =
active cores of bucket 1 + delta
[23:21] -- Negative delta of freq ratio of bucket 2.
i.e. freq ratio of bucket 2 =
freq ratio of bucket 1 - delta
[28:24]-- +ve delta of number of active cores of bucket 3.
[31:29]-- -ve delta of freq ratio of bucket 3.
[36:32]-- +ve delta of number of active cores of bucket 4.
[39:37]-- -ve delta of freq ratio of bucket 4.
[44:40]-- +ve delta of number of active cores of bucket 5.
[47:45]-- -ve delta of freq ratio of bucket 5.
[52:48]-- +ve delta of number of active cores of bucket 6.
[55:53]-- -ve delta of freq ratio of bucket 6.
[60:56]-- +ve delta of number of active cores of bucket 7.
[63:61]-- -ve delta of freq ratio of bucket 7.
1. PERFORMANCE EVALUATION: TBENCH +5%
2. NEUTRAL BENCHMARKS (ALL OTHERS)
3. TEST SETUP
1. PERFORMANCE EVALUATION: TBENCH +5%
-------------------------------------
A performance evaluation was conducted on a Knights Mill machine (see "Test
Setup" below), were the frequency-invariance patch (on schedutil) is compared
to both non-invariant schedutil and active intel_pstate with powersave: all
three tested kernels behave the same performance-wise and with regard to power
consumption (performance per watt). The only notable difference is tbench:
comparison ratio of performance with baseline; 1.00 means neutral,
higher is better:
I_PSTATE FREQ-INV
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tbench 1.04 1.05
performance-per-watt ratios with baseline; 1.00 means neutral, higher is better:
I_PSTATE FREQ-INV
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tbench 1.03 1.04
which essentially means that frequency-invariant schedutil is 5% better than
baseline, the same as intel_pstate+powersave.
As the results above are averaged over the varying parameter, here the detailed
table.
Varying parameter : number of clients
Unit : MB/sec (higher is better)
5.2.0 vanilla (BASELINE) 5.2.0 intel_pstate 5.2.0 freq-inv
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Hmean 1 49.06 +- 2.12% ( ) 51.66 +- 1.52% ( 5.30%) 52.87 +- 0.88% ( 7.76%)
Hmean 2 93.82 +- 0.45% ( ) 103.24 +- 0.70% ( 10.05%) 105.90 +- 0.70% ( 12.88%)
Hmean 4 192.46 +- 1.15% ( ) 215.95 +- 0.60% ( 12.21%) 215.78 +- 1.43% ( 12.12%)
Hmean 8 406.74 +- 2.58% ( ) 438.58 +- 0.36% ( 7.83%) 437.61 +- 0.97% ( 7.59%)
Hmean 16 857.70 +- 1.22% ( ) 890.26 +- 0.72% ( 3.80%) 889.11 +- 0.73% ( 3.66%)
Hmean 32 1760.10 +- 0.92% ( ) 1791.70 +- 0.44% ( 1.79%) 1787.95 +- 0.44% ( 1.58%)
Hmean 64 3183.50 +- 0.34% ( ) 3183.19 +- 0.36% ( -0.01%) 3187.53 +- 0.36% ( 0.13%)
Hmean 128 4830.96 +- 0.31% ( ) 4846.53 +- 0.30% ( 0.32%) 4855.86 +- 0.30% ( 0.52%)
Hmean 256 5467.98 +- 0.38% ( ) 5793.80 +- 0.28% ( 5.96%) 5821.94 +- 0.17% ( 6.47%)
Hmean 512 5398.10 +- 0.06% ( ) 5745.56 +- 0.08% ( 6.44%) 5503.68 +- 0.07% ( 1.96%)
Hmean 1024 5290.43 +- 0.63% ( ) 5221.07 +- 0.47% ( -1.31%) 5277.22 +- 0.80% ( -0.25%)
Hmean 1088 5139.71 +- 0.57% ( ) 5236.02 +- 0.71% ( 1.87%) 5190.57 +- 0.41% ( 0.99%)
2. NEUTRAL BENCHMARKS (ALL OTHERS)
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* pgbench (both read/write and read-only)
* NASA Parallel Benchmarks (NPB), MPI or OpenMP for message-passing
* hackbench
* netperf
* dbench
* kernbench
* gitsource (git unit test suite)
3. TEST SETUP
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Test machine:
CPU Model : Intel Xeon Phi CPU 7255 @ 1.10GHz (a.k.a. Knights Mill)
Fam/Mod/Ste : 6:133:0
Topology : 1 socket, 68 cores / 272 threads
Memory : 96G
Storage : rotary, XFS filesystem
Max EFFICiency, BASE frequency and available turbo levels (MHz):
EFFIC 1000 |**********
BASE 1100 |***********
68C 1100 |***********
30C 1200 |************
Tested kernels:
Baseline : v5.2, intel_pstate passive, schedutil
Comparison #1 : v5.2, intel_pstate active , powersave
Comparison #2 : v5.2, this patch, intel_pstate passive, schedutil
Signed-off-by: Giovanni Gherdovich <ggherdovich@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200122151617.531-4-ggherdovich@suse.cz
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The scheduler needs the ratio freq_curr/freq_max for frequency-invariant
accounting. On SKYLAKE_X CPUs set freq_max to the highest frequency that can
be sustained by a group of at least 4 cores.
From the changelog of commit 31e07522be56 ("tools/power turbostat: fix
decoding for GLM, DNV, SKX turbo-ratio limits"):
> Newer processors do not hard-code the the number of cpus in each bin
> to {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8} Rather, they can specify any number
> of CPUS in each of the 8 bins:
>
> eg.
>
> ...
> 37 * 100.0 = 3600.0 MHz max turbo 4 active cores
> 38 * 100.0 = 3700.0 MHz max turbo 3 active cores
> 39 * 100.0 = 3800.0 MHz max turbo 2 active cores
> 39 * 100.0 = 3900.0 MHz max turbo 1 active cores
>
> could now look something like this:
>
> ...
> 37 * 100.0 = 3600.0 MHz max turbo 16 active cores
> 38 * 100.0 = 3700.0 MHz max turbo 8 active cores
> 39 * 100.0 = 3800.0 MHz max turbo 4 active cores
> 39 * 100.0 = 3900.0 MHz max turbo 2 active cores
This encoding of turbo levels applies to both SKYLAKE_X and GOLDMONT/GOLDMONT_D,
but we treat these two classes in separate commits because their freq_max
values need to be different. For SKX we prefer a lower freq_max in the ratio
freq_curr/freq_max, allowing load and utilization to overshoot and the
schedutil governor to be more performance-oriented. Models from the Atom
series (such as GOLDMONT*) are handled in a forthcoming commit as they have to
favor power-efficiency over performance.
Results from a performance evaluation follow.
1. TEST SETUP
2. NEUTRAL BENCHMARKS
3. NON-NEUTRAL BENCHMARKS
4. DETAILED TABLES
1. TEST SETUP
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Test machine:
CPU Model : Intel Xeon Platinum 8260L CPU @ 2.40GHz (a.k.a. Cascade Lake)
Fam/Mod/Ste : 6:85:6
Topology : 2 sockets, 24 cores / 48 threads each socket
Memory : 192G
Storage : SSD, XFS filesystem
Max EFFICiency, BASE frequency and available turbo levels (MHz):
EFFIC 1000 |**********
BASE 2400 |************************
24C 3100 |*******************************
20C 3300 |*********************************
16C 3600 |************************************
12C 3600 |************************************
8C 3600 |************************************
4C 3700 |*************************************
2C 3900 |***************************************
Tested kernels:
Baseline : v5.2, intel_pstate passive, schedutil
Comparison #1 : v5.2, intel_pstate active , powersave+HWP
Comparison #2 : v5.2, this patch, intel_pstate passive, schedutil
2. NEUTRAL BENCHMARKS
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* pgbench read/write
* NASA Parallel Benchmarks (NPB), MPI or OpenMP for message-passing
* hackbench
* netperf
3. NON-NEUTRAL BENCHMARKS
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comparison ratio with baseline; 1.00 means neutral, higher is better:
I_PSTATE FREQ-INV
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pgbench read-only 1.10 ~
tbench 1.82 1.14
comparison ratio with baseline; 1.00 means neutral, lower is better:
I_PSTATE FREQ-INV
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dbench ~ 0.97
kernbench 0.88 0.78
gitsource[*] ~ 0.46
[*] "gitsource" consists in running git's unit tests
tilde (~) means 1.00, ie result identical to baseline
Performance per watt:
performance-per-watt ratios with baseline; 1.00 means neutral, higher is better:
I_PSTATE FREQ-INV
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dbench 0.92 0.91
tbench 1.26 1.04
kernbench 0.95 0.96
gitsource 1.03 1.30
Similarly to earlier Xeons, measurable performance gains over non-invariant
schedutil are observed on dbench, tbench, kernel compilation and running the
git unit tests suite. Looking at the detailed tables show that the patch
scores the largest difference when the machine is lightly loaded. Power
efficiency suffers lightly on kernbench and a bit more on dbench, but largely
improves on gitsource (which also runs considerably faster). For reference, we
also report results using active intel_pstate with powersave and HWP; the
largest gap between non-invariant schedutil and intel_pstate+powersave is
still tbench, which runs 82% better and with 26% improved efficiency on the
latter configuration -- this divide isn't closed yet by frequency-invariant
schedutil.
4. DETAILED TABLES
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Benchmark : tbench4 (i.e. dbench4 over the network, actually loopback)
Varying parameter : number of clients
Unit : MB/sec (higher is better)
5.2.0 vanilla (BASELINE) 5.2.0 intel_pstate/HWP 5.2.0 freq-inv
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Hmean 1 183.56 +- 0.21% ( ) 516.12 +- 0.57% ( 181.18%) 185.59 +- 0.59% ( 1.11%)
Hmean 2 365.75 +- 0.25% ( ) 1015.14 +- 0.33% ( 177.55%) 402.59 +- 4.48% ( 10.07%)
Hmean 4 720.99 +- 0.44% ( ) 1951.75 +- 0.28% ( 170.70%) 738.39 +- 1.72% ( 2.41%)
Hmean 8 1449.93 +- 0.34% ( ) 3830.56 +- 0.24% ( 164.19%) 1750.36 +- 4.65% ( 20.72%)
Hmean 16 2874.26 +- 0.57% ( ) 7381.62 +- 0.53% ( 156.82%) 4348.35 +- 2.22% ( 51.29%)
Hmean 32 6116.17 +- 5.10% ( ) 13013.05 +- 0.08% ( 112.76%) 8980.35 +- 0.66% ( 46.83%)
Hmean 64 14485.04 +- 3.46% ( ) 17835.12 +- 0.35% ( 23.13%) 16540.73 +- 0.51% ( 14.19%)
Hmean 128 30779.16 +- 3.20% ( ) 32796.94 +- 2.13% ( 6.56%) 31512.58 +- 0.20% ( 2.38%)
Hmean 256 34664.66 +- 0.81% ( ) 34604.67 +- 0.46% ( -0.17%) 34943.70 +- 0.25% ( 0.80%)
Hmean 384 33957.51 +- 0.11% ( ) 34091.50 +- 0.14% ( 0.39%) 33921.41 +- 0.09% ( -0.11%)
Benchmark : kernbench (kernel compilation)
Varying parameter : number of jobs
Unit : seconds (lower is better)
5.2.0 vanilla (BASELINE) 5.2.0 intel_pstate/HWP 5.2.0 freq-inv
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Amean 2 332.94 +- 0.40% ( ) 260.16 +- 0.45% ( 21.86%) 233.56 +- 0.21% ( 29.85%)
Amean 4 173.04 +- 0.43% ( ) 138.76 +- 0.03% ( 19.81%) 123.59 +- 0.11% ( 28.58%)
Amean 8 89.65 +- 0.20% ( ) 73.54 +- 0.09% ( 17.97%) 65.69 +- 0.10% ( 26.72%)
Amean 16 48.08 +- 1.41% ( ) 41.64 +- 1.61% ( 13.40%) 36.00 +- 1.80% ( 25.11%)
Amean 32 28.78 +- 0.72% ( ) 26.61 +- 1.99% ( 7.55%) 23.19 +- 1.68% ( 19.43%)
Amean 64 20.46 +- 1.85% ( ) 19.76 +- 0.35% ( 3.42%) 17.38 +- 0.92% ( 15.06%)
Amean 128 18.69 +- 1.70% ( ) 17.59 +- 1.04% ( 5.90%) 15.73 +- 1.40% ( 15.85%)
Amean 192 18.82 +- 1.01% ( ) 17.76 +- 0.77% ( 5.67%) 15.57 +- 1.80% ( 17.28%)
Benchmark : gitsource (time to run the git unit test suite)
Varying parameter : none
Unit : seconds (lower is better)
5.2.0 vanilla (BASELINE) 5.2.0 intel_pstate/HWP 5.2.0 freq-inv
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Amean 792.49 +- 0.20% ( ) 779.35 +- 0.24% ( 1.66%) 427.14 +- 0.16% ( 46.10%)
Signed-off-by: Giovanni Gherdovich <ggherdovich@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200122151617.531-3-ggherdovich@suse.cz
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Implement arch_scale_freq_capacity() for 'modern' x86. This function
is used by the scheduler to correctly account usage in the face of
DVFS.
The present patch addresses Intel processors specifically and has positive
performance and performance-per-watt implications for the schedutil cpufreq
governor, bringing it closer to, if not on-par with, the powersave governor
from the intel_pstate driver/framework.
Large performance gains are obtained when the machine is lightly loaded and
no regression are observed at saturation. The benchmarks with the largest
gains are kernel compilation, tbench (the networking version of dbench) and
shell-intensive workloads.
1. FREQUENCY INVARIANCE: MOTIVATION
* Without it, a task looks larger if the CPU runs slower
2. PECULIARITIES OF X86
* freq invariance accounting requires knowing the ratio freq_curr/freq_max
2.1 CURRENT FREQUENCY
* Use delta_APERF / delta_MPERF * freq_base (a.k.a "BusyMHz")
2.2 MAX FREQUENCY
* It varies with time (turbo). As an approximation, we set it to a
constant, i.e. 4-cores turbo frequency.
3. EFFECTS ON THE SCHEDUTIL FREQUENCY GOVERNOR
* The invariant schedutil's formula has no feedback loop and reacts faster
to utilization changes
4. KNOWN LIMITATIONS
* In some cases tasks can't reach max util despite how hard they try
5. PERFORMANCE TESTING
5.1 MACHINES
* Skylake, Broadwell, Haswell
5.2 SETUP
* baseline Linux v5.2 w/ non-invariant schedutil. Tested freq_max = 1-2-3-4-8-12
active cores turbo w/ invariant schedutil, and intel_pstate/powersave
5.3 BENCHMARK RESULTS
5.3.1 NEUTRAL BENCHMARKS
* NAS Parallel Benchmark (HPC), hackbench
5.3.2 NON-NEUTRAL BENCHMARKS
* tbench (10-30% better), kernbench (10-15% better),
shell-intensive-scripts (30-50% better)
* no regressions
5.3.3 SELECTION OF DETAILED RESULTS
5.3.4 POWER CONSUMPTION, PERFORMANCE-PER-WATT
* dbench (5% worse on one machine), kernbench (3% worse),
tbench (5-10% better), shell-intensive-scripts (10-40% better)
6. MICROARCH'ES ADDRESSED HERE
* Xeon Core before Scalable Performance processors line (Xeon Gold/Platinum
etc have different MSRs semantic for querying turbo levels)
7. REFERENCES
* MMTests performance testing framework, github.com/gormanm/mmtests
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| 1. FREQUENCY INVARIANCE: MOTIVATION
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
For example; suppose a CPU has two frequencies: 500 and 1000 Mhz. When
running a task that would consume 1/3rd of a CPU at 1000 MHz, it would
appear to consume 2/3rd (or 66.6%) when running at 500 MHz, giving the
false impression this CPU is almost at capacity, even though it can go
faster [*]. In a nutshell, without frequency scale-invariance tasks look
larger just because the CPU is running slower.
[*] (footnote: this assumes a linear frequency/performance relation; which
everybody knows to be false, but given realities its the best approximation
we can make.)
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| 2. PECULIARITIES OF X86
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Accounting for frequency changes in PELT signals requires the computation of
the ratio freq_curr / freq_max. On x86 neither of those terms is readily
available.
2.1 CURRENT FREQUENCY
====================
Since modern x86 has hardware control over the actual frequency we run
at (because amongst other things, Turbo-Mode), we cannot simply use
the frequency as requested through cpufreq.
Instead we use the APERF/MPERF MSRs to compute the effective frequency
over the recent past. Also, because reading MSRs is expensive, don't
do so every time we need the value, but amortize the cost by doing it
every tick.
2.2 MAX FREQUENCY
=================
Obtaining freq_max is also non-trivial because at any time the hardware can
provide a frequency boost to a selected subset of cores if the package has
enough power to spare (eg: Turbo Boost). This means that the maximum frequency
available to a given core changes with time.
The approach taken in this change is to arbitrarily set freq_max to a constant
value at boot. The value chosen is the "4-cores (4C) turbo frequency" on most
microarchitectures, after evaluating the following candidates:
* 1-core (1C) turbo frequency (the fastest turbo state available)
* around base frequency (a.k.a. max P-state)
* something in between, such as 4C turbo
To interpret these options, consider that this is the denominator in
freq_curr/freq_max, and that ratio will be used to scale PELT signals such as
util_avg and load_avg. A large denominator will undershoot (util_avg looks a
bit smaller than it really is), viceversa with a smaller denominator PELT
signals will tend to overshoot. Given that PELT drives frequency selection
in the schedutil governor, we will have:
freq_max set to | effect on DVFS
--------------------+------------------
1C turbo | power efficiency (lower freq choices)
base freq | performance (higher util_avg, higher freq requests)
4C turbo | a bit of both
4C turbo proves to be a good compromise in a number of benchmarks (see below).
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| 3. EFFECTS ON THE SCHEDUTIL FREQUENCY GOVERNOR
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Once an architecture implements a frequency scale-invariant utilization (the
PELT signal util_avg), schedutil switches its frequency selection formula from
freq_next = 1.25 * freq_curr * util [non-invariant util signal]
to
freq_next = 1.25 * freq_max * util [invariant util signal]
where, in the second formula, freq_max is set to the 1C turbo frequency (max
turbo). The advantage of the second formula, whose usage we unlock with this
patch, is that freq_next doesn't depend on the current frequency in an
iterative fashion, but can jump to any frequency in a single update. This
absence of feedback in the formula makes it quicker to react to utilization
changes and more robust against pathological instabilities.
Compare it to the update formula of intel_pstate/powersave:
freq_next = 1.25 * freq_max * Busy%
where again freq_max is 1C turbo and Busy% is the percentage of time not spent
idling (calculated with delta_MPERF / delta_TSC); essentially the same as
invariant schedutil, and largely responsible for intel_pstate/powersave good
reputation. The non-invariant schedutil formula is derived from the invariant
one by approximating util_inv with util_raw * freq_curr / freq_max, but this
has limitations.
Testing shows improved performances due to better frequency selections when
the machine is lightly loaded, and essentially no change in behaviour at
saturation / overutilization.
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| 4. KNOWN LIMITATIONS
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
It's been shown that it is possible to create pathological scenarios where a
CPU-bound task cannot reach max utilization, if the normalizing factor
freq_max is fixed to a constant value (see [Lelli-2018]).
If freq_max is set to 4C turbo as we do here, one needs to peg at least 5
cores in a package doing some busywork, and observe that none of those task
will ever reach max util (1024) because they're all running at less than the
4C turbo frequency.
While this concern still applies, we believe the performance benefit of
frequency scale-invariant PELT signals outweights the cost of this limitation.
[Lelli-2018]
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180517150418.GF22493@localhost.localdomain/
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| 5. PERFORMANCE TESTING
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
5.1 MACHINES
============
We tested the patch on three machines, with Skylake, Broadwell and Haswell
CPUs. The details are below, together with the available turbo ratios as
reported by the appropriate MSRs.
* 8x-SKYLAKE-UMA:
Single socket E3-1240 v5, Skylake 4 cores/8 threads
Max EFFiciency, BASE frequency and available turbo levels (MHz):
EFFIC 800 |********
BASE 3500 |***********************************
4C 3700 |*************************************
3C 3800 |**************************************
2C 3900 |***************************************
1C 3900 |***************************************
* 80x-BROADWELL-NUMA:
Two sockets E5-2698 v4, 2x Broadwell 20 cores/40 threads
Max EFFiciency, BASE frequency and available turbo levels (MHz):
EFFIC 1200 |************
BASE 2200 |**********************
8C 2900 |*****************************
7C 3000 |******************************
6C 3100 |*******************************
5C 3200 |********************************
4C 3300 |*********************************
3C 3400 |**********************************
2C 3600 |************************************
1C 3600 |************************************
* 48x-HASWELL-NUMA
Two sockets E5-2670 v3, 2x Haswell 12 cores/24 threads
Max EFFiciency, BASE frequency and available turbo levels (MHz):
EFFIC 1200 |************
BASE 2300 |***********************
12C 2600 |**************************
11C 2600 |**************************
10C 2600 |**************************
9C 2600 |**************************
8C 2600 |**************************
7C 2600 |**************************
6C 2600 |**************************
5C 2700 |***************************
4C 2800 |****************************
3C 2900 |*****************************
2C 3100 |*******************************
1C 3100 |*******************************
5.2 SETUP
=========
* The baseline is Linux v5.2 with schedutil (non-invariant) and the intel_pstate
driver in passive mode.
* The rationale for choosing the various freq_max values to test have been to
try all the 1-2-3-4C turbo levels (note that 1C and 2C turbo are identical
on all machines), plus one more value closer to base_freq but still in the
turbo range (8C turbo for both 80x-BROADWELL-NUMA and 48x-HASWELL-NUMA).
* In addition we've run all tests with intel_pstate/powersave for comparison.
* The filesystem is always XFS, the userspace is openSUSE Leap 15.1.
* 8x-SKYLAKE-UMA is capable of HWP (Hardware-Managed P-States), so the runs
with active intel_pstate on this machine use that.
This gives, in terms of combinations tested on each machine:
* 8x-SKYLAKE-UMA
* Baseline: Linux v5.2, non-invariant schedutil, intel_pstate passive
* intel_pstate active + powersave + HWP
* invariant schedutil, freq_max = 1C turbo
* invariant schedutil, freq_max = 3C turbo
* invariant schedutil, freq_max = 4C turbo
* both 80x-BROADWELL-NUMA and 48x-HASWELL-NUMA
* [same as 8x-SKYLAKE-UMA, but no HWP capable]
* invariant schedutil, freq_max = 8C turbo
(which on 48x-HASWELL-NUMA is the same as 12C turbo, or "all cores turbo")
5.3 BENCHMARK RESULTS
=====================
5.3.1 NEUTRAL BENCHMARKS
------------------------
Tests that didn't show any measurable difference in performance on any of the
test machines between non-invariant schedutil and our patch are:
* NAS Parallel Benchmarks (NPB) using either MPI or openMP for IPC, any
computational kernel
* flexible I/O (FIO)
* hackbench (using threads or processes, and using pipes or sockets)
5.3.2 NON-NEUTRAL BENCHMARKS
----------------------------
What follow are summary tables where each benchmark result is given a score.
* A tilde (~) means a neutral result, i.e. no difference from baseline.
* Scores are computed with the ratio result_new / result_baseline, so a tilde
means a score of 1.00.
* The results in the score ratio are the geometric means of results running
the benchmark with different parameters (eg: for kernbench: using 1, 2, 4,
... number of processes; for pgbench: varying the number of clients, and so
on).
* The first three tables show higher-is-better kind of tests (i.e. measured in
operations/second), the subsequent three show lower-is-better kind of tests
(i.e. the workload is fixed and we measure elapsed time, think kernbench).
* "gitsource" is a name we made up for the test consisting in running the
entire unit tests suite of the Git SCM and measuring how long it takes. We
take it as a typical example of shell-intensive serialized workload.
* In the "I_PSTATE" column we have the results for intel_pstate/powersave. Other
columns show invariant schedutil for different values of freq_max. 4C turbo
is circled as it's the value we've chosen for the final implementation.
80x-BROADWELL-NUMA (comparison ratio; higher is better)
+------+
I_PSTATE 1C 3C | 4C | 8C
pgbench-ro 1.14 ~ ~ | 1.11 | 1.14
pgbench-rw ~ ~ ~ | ~ | ~
netperf-udp 1.06 ~ 1.06 | 1.05 | 1.07
netperf-tcp ~ 1.03 ~ | 1.01 | 1.02
tbench4 1.57 1.18 1.22 | 1.30 | 1.56
+------+
8x-SKYLAKE-UMA (comparison ratio; higher is better)
+------+
I_PSTATE/HWP 1C 3C | 4C |
pgbench-ro ~ ~ ~ | ~ |
pgbench-rw ~ ~ ~ | ~ |
netperf-udp ~ ~ ~ | ~ |
netperf-tcp ~ ~ ~ | ~ |
tbench4 1.30 1.14 1.14 | 1.16 |
+------+
48x-HASWELL-NUMA (comparison ratio; higher is better)
+------+
I_PSTATE 1C 3C | 4C | 12C
pgbench-ro 1.15 ~ ~ | 1.06 | 1.16
pgbench-rw ~ ~ ~ | ~ | ~
netperf-udp 1.05 0.97 1.04 | 1.04 | 1.02
netperf-tcp 0.96 1.01 1.01 | 1.01 | 1.01
tbench4 1.50 1.05 1.13 | 1.13 | 1.25
+------+
In the table above we see that active intel_pstate is slightly better than our
4C-turbo patch (both in reference to the baseline non-invariant schedutil) on
read-only pgbench and much better on tbench. Both cases are notable in which
it shows that lowering our freq_max (to 8C-turbo and 12C-turbo on
80x-BROADWELL-NUMA and 48x-HASWELL-NUMA respectively) helps invariant
schedutil to get closer.
If we ignore active intel_pstate and focus on the comparison with baseline
alone, there are several instances of double-digit performance improvement.
80x-BROADWELL-NUMA (comparison ratio; lower is better)
+------+
I_PSTATE 1C 3C | 4C | 8C
dbench4 1.23 0.95 0.95 | 0.95 | 0.95
kernbench 0.93 0.83 0.83 | 0.83 | 0.82
gitsource 0.98 0.49 0.49 | 0.49 | 0.48
+------+
8x-SKYLAKE-UMA (comparison ratio; lower is better)
+------+
I_PSTATE/HWP 1C 3C | 4C |
dbench4 ~ ~ ~ | ~ |
kernbench ~ ~ ~ | ~ |
gitsource 0.92 0.55 0.55 | 0.55 |
+------+
48x-HASWELL-NUMA (comparison ratio; lower is better)
+------+
I_PSTATE 1C 3C | 4C | 8C
dbench4 ~ ~ ~ | ~ | ~
kernbench 0.94 0.90 0.89 | 0.90 | 0.90
gitsource 0.97 0.69 0.69 | 0.69 | 0.69
+------+
dbench is not very remarkable here, unless we notice how poorly active
intel_pstate is performing on 80x-BROADWELL-NUMA: 23% regression versus
non-invariant schedutil. We repeated that run getting consistent results. Out
of scope for the patch at hand, but deserving future investigation. Other than
that, we previously ran this campaign with Linux v5.0 and saw the patch doing
better on dbench a the time. We haven't checked closely and can only speculate
at this point.
On the NUMA boxes kernbench gets 10-15% improvements on average; we'll see in
the detailed tables that the gains concentrate on low process counts (lightly
loaded machines).
The test we call "gitsource" (running the git unit test suite, a long-running
single-threaded shell script) appears rather spectacular in this table (gains
of 30-50% depending on the machine). It is to be noted, however, that
gitsource has no adjustable parameters (such as the number of jobs in
kernbench, which we average over in order to get a single-number summary
score) and is exactly the kind of low-parallelism workload that benefits the
most from this patch. When looking at the detailed tables of kernbench or
tbench4, at low process or client counts one can see similar numbers.
5.3.3 SELECTION OF DETAILED RESULTS
-----------------------------------
Machine : 48x-HASWELL-NUMA
Benchmark : tbench4 (i.e. dbench4 over the network, actually loopback)
Varying parameter : number of clients
Unit : MB/sec (higher is better)
5.2.0 vanilla (BASELINE) 5.2.0 intel_pstate 5.2.0 1C-turbo
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Hmean 1 126.73 +- 0.31% ( ) 315.91 +- 0.66% ( 149.28%) 125.03 +- 0.76% ( -1.34%)
Hmean 2 258.04 +- 0.62% ( ) 614.16 +- 0.51% ( 138.01%) 269.58 +- 1.45% ( 4.47%)
Hmean 4 514.30 +- 0.67% ( ) 1146.58 +- 0.54% ( 122.94%) 533.84 +- 1.99% ( 3.80%)
Hmean 8 1111.38 +- 2.52% ( ) 2159.78 +- 0.38% ( 94.33%) 1359.92 +- 1.56% ( 22.36%)
Hmean 16 2286.47 +- 1.36% ( ) 3338.29 +- 0.21% ( 46.00%) 2720.20 +- 0.52% ( 18.97%)
Hmean 32 4704.84 +- 0.35% ( ) 4759.03 +- 0.43% ( 1.15%) 4774.48 +- 0.30% ( 1.48%)
Hmean 64 7578.04 +- 0.27% ( ) 7533.70 +- 0.43% ( -0.59%) 7462.17 +- 0.65% ( -1.53%)
Hmean 128 6998.52 +- 0.16% ( ) 6987.59 +- 0.12% ( -0.16%) 6909.17 +- 0.14% ( -1.28%)
Hmean 192 6901.35 +- 0.25% ( ) 6913.16 +- 0.10% ( 0.17%) 6855.47 +- 0.21% ( -0.66%)
5.2.0 3C-turbo 5.2.0 4C-turbo 5.2.0 12C-turbo
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Hmean 1 128.43 +- 0.28% ( 1.34%) 130.64 +- 3.81% ( 3.09%) 153.71 +- 5.89% ( 21.30%)
Hmean 2 311.70 +- 6.15% ( 20.79%) 281.66 +- 3.40% ( 9.15%) 305.08 +- 5.70% ( 18.23%)
Hmean 4 641.98 +- 2.32% ( 24.83%) 623.88 +- 5.28% ( 21.31%) 906.84 +- 4.65% ( 76.32%)
Hmean 8 1633.31 +- 1.56% ( 46.96%) 1714.16 +- 0.93% ( 54.24%) 2095.74 +- 0.47% ( 88.57%)
Hmean 16 3047.24 +- 0.42% ( 33.27%) 3155.02 +- 0.30% ( 37.99%) 3634.58 +- 0.15% ( 58.96%)
Hmean 32 4734.31 +- 0.60% ( 0.63%) 4804.38 +- 0.23% ( 2.12%) 4674.62 +- 0.27% ( -0.64%)
Hmean 64 7699.74 +- 0.35% ( 1.61%) 7499.72 +- 0.34% ( -1.03%) 7659.03 +- 0.25% ( 1.07%)
Hmean 128 6935.18 +- 0.15% ( -0.91%) 6942.54 +- 0.10% ( -0.80%) 7004.85 +- 0.12% ( 0.09%)
Hmean 192 6901.62 +- 0.12% ( 0.00%) 6856.93 +- 0.10% ( -0.64%) 6978.74 +- 0.10% ( 1.12%)
This is one of the cases where the patch still can't surpass active
intel_pstate, not even when freq_max is as low as 12C-turbo. Otherwise, gains are
visible up to 16 clients and the saturated scenario is the same as baseline.
The scores in the summary table from the previous sections are ratios of
geometric means of the results over different clients, as seen in this table.
Machine : 80x-BROADWELL-NUMA
Benchmark : kernbench (kernel compilation)
Varying parameter : number of jobs
Unit : seconds (lower is better)
5.2.0 vanilla (BASELINE) 5.2.0 intel_pstate 5.2.0 1C-turbo
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Amean 2 379.68 +- 0.06% ( ) 330.20 +- 0.43% ( 13.03%) 285.93 +- 0.07% ( 24.69%)
Amean 4 200.15 +- 0.24% ( ) 175.89 +- 0.22% ( 12.12%) 153.78 +- 0.25% ( 23.17%)
Amean 8 106.20 +- 0.31% ( ) 95.54 +- 0.23% ( 10.03%) 86.74 +- 0.10% ( 18.32%)
Amean 16 56.96 +- 1.31% ( ) 53.25 +- 1.22% ( 6.50%) 48.34 +- 1.73% ( 15.13%)
Amean 32 34.80 +- 2.46% ( ) 33.81 +- 0.77% ( 2.83%) 30.28 +- 1.59% ( 12.99%)
Amean 64 26.11 +- 1.63% ( ) 25.04 +- 1.07% ( 4.10%) 22.41 +- 2.37% ( 14.16%)
Amean 128 24.80 +- 1.36% ( ) 23.57 +- 1.23% ( 4.93%) 21.44 +- 1.37% ( 13.55%)
Amean 160 24.85 +- 0.56% ( ) 23.85 +- 1.17% ( 4.06%) 21.25 +- 1.12% ( 14.49%)
5.2.0 3C-turbo 5.2.0 4C-turbo 5.2.0 8C-turbo
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Amean 2 284.08 +- 0.13% ( 25.18%) 283.96 +- 0.51% ( 25.21%) 285.05 +- 0.21% ( 24.92%)
Amean 4 153.18 +- 0.22% ( 23.47%) 154.70 +- 1.64% ( 22.71%) 153.64 +- 0.30% ( 23.24%)
Amean 8 87.06 +- 0.28% ( 18.02%) 86.77 +- 0.46% ( 18.29%) 86.78 +- 0.22% ( 18.28%)
Amean 16 48.03 +- 0.93% ( 15.68%) 47.75 +- 1.99% ( 16.17%) 47.52 +- 1.61% ( 16.57%)
Amean 32 30.23 +- 1.20% ( 13.14%) 30.08 +- 1.67% ( 13.57%) 30.07 +- 1.67% ( 13.60%)
Amean 64 22.59 +- 2.02% ( 13.50%) 22.63 +- 0.81% ( 13.32%) 22.42 +- 0.76% ( 14.12%)
Amean 128 21.37 +- 0.67% ( 13.82%) 21.31 +- 1.15% ( 14.07%) 21.17 +- 1.93% ( 14.63%)
Amean 160 21.68 +- 0.57% ( 12.76%) 21.18 +- 1.74% ( 14.77%) 21.22 +- 1.00% ( 14.61%)
The patch outperform active intel_pstate (and baseline) by a considerable
margin; the summary table from the previous section says 4C turbo and active
intel_pstate are 0.83 and 0.93 against baseline respectively, so 4C turbo is
0.83/0.93=0.89 against intel_pstate (~10% better on average). There is no
noticeable difference with regard to the value of freq_max.
Machine : 8x-SKYLAKE-UMA
Benchmark : gitsource (time to run the git unit test suite)
Varying parameter : none
Unit : seconds (lower is better)
5.2.0 vanilla 5.2.0 intel_pstate/hwp 5.2.0 1C-turbo
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Amean 858.85 +- 1.16% ( ) 791.94 +- 0.21% ( 7.79%) 474.95 ( 44.70%)
5.2.0 3C-turbo 5.2.0 4C-turbo
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Amean 475.26 +- 0.20% ( 44.66%) 474.34 +- 0.13% ( 44.77%)
In this test, which is of interest as representing shell-intensive
(i.e. fork-intensive) serialized workloads, invariant schedutil outperforms
intel_pstate/powersave by a whopping 40% margin.
5.3.4 POWER CONSUMPTION, PERFORMANCE-PER-WATT
---------------------------------------------
The following table shows average power consumption in watt for each
benchmark. Data comes from turbostat (package average), which in turn is read
from the RAPL interface on CPUs. We know the patch affects CPU frequencies so
it's reasonable to ignore other power consumers (such as memory or I/O). Also,
we don't have a power meter available in the lab so RAPL is the best we have.
turbostat sampled average power every 10 seconds for the entire duration of
each benchmark. We took all those values and averaged them (i.e. with don't
have detail on a per-parameter granularity, only on whole benchmarks).
80x-BROADWELL-NUMA (power consumption, watts)
+--------+
BASELINE I_PSTATE 1C 3C | 4C | 8C
pgbench-ro 130.01 142.77 131.11 132.45 | 134.65 | 136.84
pgbench-rw 68.30 60.83 71.45 71.70 | 71.65 | 72.54
dbench4 90.25 59.06 101.43 99.89 | 101.10 | 102.94
netperf-udp 65.70 69.81 66.02 68.03 | 68.27 | 68.95
netperf-tcp 88.08 87.96 88.97 88.89 | 88.85 | 88.20
tbench4 142.32 176.73 153.02 163.91 | 165.58 | 176.07
kernbench 92.94 101.95 114.91 115.47 | 115.52 | 115.10
gitsource 40.92 41.87 75.14 75.20 | 75.40 | 75.70
+--------+
8x-SKYLAKE-UMA (power consumption, watts)
+--------+
BASELINE I_PSTATE/HWP 1C 3C | 4C |
pgbench-ro 46.49 46.68 46.56 46.59 | 46.52 |
pgbench-rw 29.34 31.38 30.98 31.00 | 31.00 |
dbench4 27.28 27.37 27.49 27.41 | 27.38 |
netperf-udp 22.33 22.41 22.36 22.35 | 22.36 |
netperf-tcp 27.29 27.29 27.30 27.31 | 27.33 |
tbench4 41.13 45.61 43.10 43.33 | 43.56 |
kernbench 42.56 42.63 43.01 43.01 | 43.01 |
gitsource 13.32 13.69 17.33 17.30 | 17.35 |
+--------+
48x-HASWELL-NUMA (power consumption, watts)
+--------+
BASELINE I_PSTATE 1C 3C | 4C | 12C
pgbench-ro 128.84 136.04 129.87 132.43 | 132.30 | 134.86
pgbench-rw 37.68 37.92 37.17 37.74 | 37.73 | 37.31
dbench4 28.56 28.73 28.60 28.73 | 28.70 | 28.79
netperf-udp 56.70 60.44 56.79 57.42 | 57.54 | 57.52
netperf-tcp 75.49 75.27 75.87 76.02 | 76.01 | 75.95
tbench4 115.44 139.51 119.53 123.07 | 123.97 | 130.22
kernbench 83.23 91.55 95.58 95.69 | 95.72 | 96.04
gitsource 36.79 36.99 39.99 40.34 | 40.35 | 40.23
+--------+
A lower power consumption isn't necessarily better, it depends on what is done
with that energy. Here are tables with the ratio of performance-per-watt on
each machine and benchmark. Higher is always better; a tilde (~) means a
neutral ratio (i.e. 1.00).
80x-BROADWELL-NUMA (performance-per-watt ratios; higher is better)
+------+
I_PSTATE 1C 3C | 4C | 8C
pgbench-ro 1.04 1.06 0.94 | 1.07 | 1.08
pgbench-rw 1.10 0.97 0.96 | 0.96 | 0.97
dbench4 1.24 0.94 0.95 | 0.94 | 0.92
netperf-udp ~ 1.02 1.02 | ~ | 1.02
netperf-tcp ~ 1.02 ~ | ~ | 1.02
tbench4 1.26 1.10 1.06 | 1.12 | 1.26
kernbench 0.98 0.97 0.97 | 0.97 | 0.98
gitsource ~ 1.11 1.11 | 1.11 | 1.13
+------+
8x-SKYLAKE-UMA (performance-per-watt ratios; higher is better)
+------+
I_PSTATE/HWP 1C 3C | 4C |
pgbench-ro ~ ~ ~ | ~ |
pgbench-rw 0.95 0.97 0.96 | 0.96 |
dbench4 ~ ~ ~ | ~ |
netperf-udp ~ ~ ~ | ~ |
netperf-tcp ~ ~ ~ | ~ |
tbench4 1.17 1.09 1.08 | 1.10 |
kernbench ~ ~ ~ | ~ |
gitsource 1.06 1.40 1.40 | 1.40 |
+------+
48x-HASWELL-NUMA (performance-per-watt ratios; higher is better)
+------+
I_PSTATE 1C 3C | 4C | 12C
pgbench-ro 1.09 ~ 1.09 | 1.03 | 1.11
pgbench-rw ~ 0.86 ~ | ~ | 0.86
dbench4 ~ 1.02 1.02 | 1.02 | ~
netperf-udp ~ 0.97 1.03 | 1.02 | ~
netperf-tcp 0.96 ~ ~ | ~ | ~
tbench4 1.24 ~ 1.06 | 1.05 | 1.11
kernbench 0.97 0.97 0.98 | 0.97 | 0.96
gitsource 1.03 1.33 1.32 | 1.32 | 1.33
+------+
These results are overall pleasing: in plenty of cases we observe
performance-per-watt improvements. The few regressions (read/write pgbench and
dbench on the Broadwell machine) are of small magnitude. kernbench loses a few
percentage points (it has a 10-15% performance improvement, but apparently the
increase in power consumption is larger than that). tbench4 and gitsource, which
benefit the most from the patch, keep a positive score in this table which is
a welcome surprise; that suggests that in those particular workloads the
non-invariant schedutil (and active intel_pstate, too) makes some rather
suboptimal frequency selections.
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| 6. MICROARCH'ES ADDRESSED HERE
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
The patch addresses Xeon Core processors that use MSR_PLATFORM_INFO and
MSR_TURBO_RATIO_LIMIT to advertise their base frequency and turbo frequencies
respectively. This excludes the recent Xeon Scalable Performance processors
line (Xeon Gold, Platinum etc) whose MSRs have to be parsed differently.
Subsequent patches will address:
* Xeon Scalable Performance processors and Atom Goldmont/Goldmont Plus
* Xeon Phi (Knights Landing, Knights Mill)
* Atom Silvermont
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| 7. REFERENCES
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Tests have been run with the help of the MMTests performance testing
framework, see github.com/gormanm/mmtests. The configuration file names for
the benchmark used are:
db-pgbench-timed-ro-small-xfs
db-pgbench-timed-rw-small-xfs
io-dbench4-async-xfs
network-netperf-unbound
network-tbench
scheduler-unbound
workload-kerndevel-xfs
workload-shellscripts-xfs
hpc-nas-c-class-mpi-full-xfs
hpc-nas-c-class-omp-full
All those benchmarks are generally available on the web:
pgbench: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/pgbench.html
netperf: https://hewlettpackard.github.io/netperf/
dbench/tbench: https://dbench.samba.org/
gitsource: git unit test suite, github.com/git/git
NAS Parallel Benchmarks: https://www.nas.nasa.gov/publications/npb.html
hackbench: https://people.redhat.com/mingo/cfs-scheduler/tools/hackbench.c
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Giovanni Gherdovich <ggherdovich@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Doug Smythies <dsmythies@telus.net>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200122151617.531-2-ggherdovich@suse.cz
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull misc x86 updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Misc changes:
- Enhance #GP fault printouts by distinguishing between canonical and
non-canonical address faults, and also add KASAN fault decoding.
- Fix/enhance the x86 NMI handler by putting the duration check into
a direct function call instead of an irq_work which we know to be
broken in some cases.
- Clean up do_general_protection() a bit"
* 'x86-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/nmi: Remove irq_work from the long duration NMI handler
x86/traps: Cleanup do_general_protection()
x86/kasan: Print original address on #GP
x86/dumpstack: Introduce die_addr() for die() with #GP fault address
x86/traps: Print address on #GP
x86/insn-eval: Add support for 64-bit kernel mode
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 cleanups from Ingo Molnar:
"Misc cleanups all around the map"
* 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/CPU/AMD: Remove amd_get_topology_early()
x86/tsc: Remove redundant assignment
x86/crash: Use resource_size()
x86/cpu: Add a missing prototype for arch_smt_update()
x86/nospec: Remove unused RSB_FILL_LOOPS
x86/vdso: Provide missing include file
x86/Kconfig: Correct spelling and punctuation
Documentation/x86/boot: Fix typo
x86/boot: Fix a comment's incorrect file reference
x86/process: Remove set but not used variables prev and next
x86/Kconfig: Fix Kconfig indentation
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 resource control updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main change in this tree is the extension of the resctrl procfs
ABI with a new file that helps tooling to navigate from tasks back to
resctrl groups: /proc/{pid}/cpu_resctrl_groups.
Also fix static key usage for certain feature combinations and
simplify the task exit resctrl case"
* 'x86-cache-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/resctrl: Add task resctrl information display
x86/resctrl: Check monitoring static key in the MBM overflow handler
x86/resctrl: Do not reconfigure exiting tasks
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 boot update from Ingo Molnar:
"Two minor changes: fix an atypical binutils combination build bug, and
also fix a VRAM size check for simplefb"
* 'x86-boot-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/sysfb: Fix check for bad VRAM size
x86/boot: Discard .eh_frame sections
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 asm updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Misc updates:
- Remove last remaining calls to exception_enter/exception_exit() and
simplify the entry code some more.
- Remove force_iret()
- Add support for "Fast Short Rep Mov", which is available starting
with Ice Lake Intel CPUs - and make the x86 assembly version of
memmove() use REP MOV for all sizes when FSRM is available.
- Micro-optimize/simplify the 32-bit boot code a bit.
- Use a more future-proof SYSRET instruction mnemonic"
* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/boot: Simplify calculation of output address
x86/entry/64: Add instruction suffix to SYSRET
x86: Remove force_iret()
x86/cpufeatures: Add support for fast short REP; MOVSB
x86/context-tracking: Remove exception_enter/exit() from KVM_PV_REASON_PAGE_NOT_PRESENT async page fault
x86/context-tracking: Remove exception_enter/exit() from do_page_fault()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 apic fix from Ingo Molnar:
"A single commit that simplifies the code and gets rid of a compiler
warning"
* 'x86-apic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/apic/uv: Avoid unused variable warning
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pick up single-commit branches
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Kernel side changes:
- Ftrace is one of the last W^X violators (after this only KLP is
left). These patches move it over to the generic text_poke()
interface and thereby get rid of this oddity. This requires a
surprising amount of surgery, by Peter Zijlstra.
- x86/AMD PMUs: add support for 'Large Increment per Cycle Events' to
count certain types of events that have a special, quirky hw ABI
(by Kim Phillips)
- kprobes fixes by Masami Hiramatsu
Lots of tooling updates as well, the following subcommands were
updated: annotate/report/top, c2c, clang, record, report/top TUI,
sched timehist, tests; plus updates were done to the gtk ui, libperf,
headers and the parser"
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (57 commits)
perf/x86/amd: Add support for Large Increment per Cycle Events
perf/x86/amd: Constrain Large Increment per Cycle events
perf/x86/intel/rapl: Add Comet Lake support
tracing: Initialize ret in syscall_enter_define_fields()
perf header: Use last modification time for timestamp
perf c2c: Fix return type for histogram sorting comparision functions
perf beauty sockaddr: Fix augmented syscall format warning
perf/ui/gtk: Fix gtk2 build
perf ui gtk: Add missing zalloc object
perf tools: Use %define api.pure full instead of %pure-parser
libperf: Setup initial evlist::all_cpus value
perf report: Fix no libunwind compiled warning break s390 issue
perf tools: Support --prefix/--prefix-strip
perf report: Clarify in help that --children is default
tools build: Fix test-clang.cpp with Clang 8+
perf clang: Fix build with Clang 9
kprobes: Fix optimize_kprobe()/unoptimize_kprobe() cancellation logic
tools lib: Fix builds when glibc contains strlcpy()
perf report/top: Make 'e' visible in the help and make it toggle showing callchains
perf report/top: Do not offer annotation for symbols without samples
...
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull EFI updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this cycle were:
- Cleanup of the GOP [graphics output] handling code in the EFI stub
- Complete refactoring of the mixed mode handling in the x86 EFI stub
- Overhaul of the x86 EFI boot/runtime code
- Increase robustness for mixed mode code
- Add the ability to disable DMA at the root port level in the EFI
stub
- Get rid of RWX mappings in the EFI memory map and page tables,
where possible
- Move the support code for the old EFI memory mapping style into its
only user, the SGI UV1+ support code.
- plus misc fixes, updates, smaller cleanups.
... and due to interactions with the RWX changes, another round of PAT
cleanups make a guest appearance via the EFI tree - with no side
effects intended"
* 'efi-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (75 commits)
efi/x86: Disable instrumentation in the EFI runtime handling code
efi/libstub/x86: Fix EFI server boot failure
efi/x86: Disallow efi=old_map in mixed mode
x86/boot/compressed: Relax sed symbol type regex for LLVM ld.lld
efi/x86: avoid KASAN false positives when accessing the 1: 1 mapping
efi: Fix handling of multiple efi_fake_mem= entries
efi: Fix efi_memmap_alloc() leaks
efi: Add tracking for dynamically allocated memmaps
efi: Add a flags parameter to efi_memory_map
efi: Fix comment for efi_mem_type() wrt absent physical addresses
efi/arm: Defer probe of PCIe backed efifb on DT systems
efi/x86: Limit EFI old memory map to SGI UV machines
efi/x86: Avoid RWX mappings for all of DRAM
efi/x86: Don't map the entire kernel text RW for mixed mode
x86/mm: Fix NX bit clearing issue in kernel_map_pages_in_pgd
efi/libstub/x86: Fix unused-variable warning
efi/libstub/x86: Use mandatory 16-byte stack alignment in mixed mode
efi/libstub/x86: Use const attribute for efi_is_64bit()
efi: Allow disabling PCI busmastering on bridges during boot
efi/x86: Allow translating 64-bit arguments for mixed mode calls
...
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull objtool updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes are to move the ORC unwind table sorting from early
init to build-time - this speeds up booting.
No change in functionality intended"
* 'core-objtool-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/unwind/orc: Fix !CONFIG_MODULES build warning
x86/unwind/orc: Remove boot-time ORC unwind tables sorting
scripts/sorttable: Implement build-time ORC unwind table sorting
scripts/sorttable: Rename 'sortextable' to 'sorttable'
scripts/sortextable: Refactor the do_func() function
scripts/sortextable: Remove dead code
scripts/sortextable: Clean up the code to meet the kernel coding style better
scripts/sortextable: Rewrite error/success handling
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull header cleanup from Ingo Molnar:
"This is a treewide cleanup, mostly (but not exclusively) with x86
impact, which breaks implicit dependencies on the asm/realtime.h
header and finally removes it from asm/acpi.h"
* 'core-headers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/ACPI/sleep: Move acpi_get_wakeup_address() into sleep.c, remove <asm/realmode.h> from <asm/acpi.h>
ACPI/sleep: Convert acpi_wakeup_address into a function
x86/ACPI/sleep: Remove an unnecessary include of asm/realmode.h
ASoC: Intel: Skylake: Explicitly include linux/io.h for virt_to_phys()
vmw_balloon: Explicitly include linux/io.h for virt_to_phys()
virt: vbox: Explicitly include linux/io.h to pick up various defs
efi/capsule-loader: Explicitly include linux/io.h for page_to_phys()
perf/x86/intel: Explicitly include asm/io.h to use virt_to_phys()
x86/kprobes: Explicitly include vmalloc.h for set_vm_flush_reset_perms()
x86/ftrace: Explicitly include vmalloc.h for set_vm_flush_reset_perms()
x86/boot: Explicitly include realmode.h to handle RM reservations
x86/efi: Explicitly include realmode.h to handle RM trampoline quirk
x86/platform/intel/quark: Explicitly include linux/io.h for virt_to_phys()
x86/setup: Enhance the comments
x86/setup: Clean up the header portion of setup.c
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 pti updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"The performance deterioration departement provides a few non-scary
fixes and improvements:
- Update the cached HLE state when the TSX state is changed via the
new control register. This ensures feature bit consistency.
- Exclude the new Zhaoxin CPUs from Spectre V2 and SWAPGS
vulnerabilities"
* tag 'x86-pti-2020-01-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/speculation/swapgs: Exclude Zhaoxin CPUs from SWAPGS vulnerability
x86/speculation/spectre_v2: Exclude Zhaoxin CPUs from SPECTRE_V2
x86/cpu: Update cached HLE state on write to TSX_CTRL_CPUID_CLEAR
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"The timekeeping and timers departement provides:
- Time namespace support:
If a container migrates from one host to another then it expects
that clocks based on MONOTONIC and BOOTTIME are not subject to
disruption. Due to different boot time and non-suspended runtime
these clocks can differ significantly on two hosts, in the worst
case time goes backwards which is a violation of the POSIX
requirements.
The time namespace addresses this problem. It allows to set offsets
for clock MONOTONIC and BOOTTIME once after creation and before
tasks are associated with the namespace. These offsets are taken
into account by timers and timekeeping including the VDSO.
Offsets for wall clock based clocks (REALTIME/TAI) are not provided
by this mechanism. While in theory possible, the overhead and code
complexity would be immense and not justified by the esoteric
potential use cases which were discussed at Plumbers '18.
The overhead for tasks in the root namespace (ie where host time
offsets = 0) is in the noise and great effort was made to ensure
that especially in the VDSO. If time namespace is disabled in the
kernel configuration the code is compiled out.
Kudos to Andrei Vagin and Dmitry Sofanov who implemented this
feature and kept on for more than a year addressing review
comments, finding better solutions. A pleasant experience.
- Overhaul of the alarmtimer device dependency handling to ensure
that the init/suspend/resume ordering is correct.
- A new clocksource/event driver for Microchip PIT64
- Suspend/resume support for the Hyper-V clocksource
- The usual pile of fixes, updates and improvements mostly in the
driver code"
* tag 'timers-core-2020-01-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (71 commits)
alarmtimer: Make alarmtimer_get_rtcdev() a stub when CONFIG_RTC_CLASS=n
alarmtimer: Use wakeup source from alarmtimer platform device
alarmtimer: Make alarmtimer platform device child of RTC device
alarmtimer: Update alarmtimer_get_rtcdev() docs to reflect reality
hrtimer: Add missing sparse annotation for __run_timer()
lib/vdso: Only read hrtimer_res when needed in __cvdso_clock_getres()
MIPS: vdso: Define BUILD_VDSO32 when building a 32bit kernel
clocksource/drivers/hyper-v: Set TSC clocksource as default w/ InvariantTSC
clocksource/drivers/hyper-v: Untangle stimers and timesync from clocksources
clocksource/drivers/timer-microchip-pit64b: Fix sparse warning
clocksource/drivers/exynos_mct: Rename Exynos to lowercase
clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Fix uninitialized pointer access
clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Switch to platform_get_irq
clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Convert to devm_platform_ioremap_resource
clocksource/drivers/em_sti: Fix variable declaration in em_sti_probe
clocksource/drivers/em_sti: Convert to devm_platform_ioremap_resource
clocksource/drivers/bcm2835_timer: Fix memory leak of timer
clocksource/drivers/cadence-ttc: Use ttc driver as platform driver
clocksource/drivers/timer-microchip-pit64b: Add Microchip PIT64B support
clocksource/drivers/hyper-v: Reserve PAGE_SIZE space for tsc page
...
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Pull ioremap updates from Christoph Hellwig:
"Remove the ioremap_nocache API (plus wrappers) that are always
identical to ioremap"
* tag 'ioremap-5.6' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/ioremap:
remove ioremap_nocache and devm_ioremap_nocache
MIPS: define ioremap_nocache to ioremap
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull RAS updates from Borislav Petkov:
- Misc fixes to the MCE code all over the place, by Jan H. Schönherr.
- Initial support for AMD F19h and other cleanups to amd64_edac, by
Yazen Ghannam.
- Other small cleanups.
* 'ras-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
EDAC/mce_amd: Make fam_ops static global
EDAC/amd64: Drop some family checks for newer systems
EDAC/amd64: Add family ops for Family 19h Models 00h-0Fh
x86/amd_nb: Add Family 19h PCI IDs
EDAC/mce_amd: Always load on SMCA systems
x86/MCE/AMD, EDAC/mce_amd: Add new Load Store unit McaType
x86/mce: Fix use of uninitialized MCE message string
x86/mce: Fix mce=nobootlog
x86/mce: Take action on UCNA/Deferred errors again
x86/mce: Remove mce_inject_log() in favor of mce_log()
x86/mce: Pass MCE message to mce_panic() on failed kernel recovery
x86/mce/therm_throt: Mark throttle_active_work() as __maybe_unused
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... and fold its function body into its single call site.
No functional changes:
# arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.o:
text data bss dec hex filename
5994 385 1 6380 18ec amd.o.before
5994 385 1 6380 18ec amd.o.after
md5:
99ec6daa095b502297884e949c520f90 amd.o.before.asm
99ec6daa095b502297884e949c520f90 amd.o.after.asm
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200123165811.5288-1-bp@alien8.de
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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
MPX is being removed from the kernel due to a lack of support
in the toolchain going forward (gcc).
This removes all the remaining (dead at this point) MPX handling
code remaining in the tree. The only remaining code is the XSAVE
support for MPX state which is currently needd for KVM to handle
VMs which might use MPX.
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
MPX is being removed from the kernel due to a lack of support
in the toolchain going forward (gcc).
Remove the other user-visible ABI: signal handling. This code
should basically have been inactive after the prctl()s were
removed, but there may be some small ABI remnants from this code.
Remove it.
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
While testing my MPX removal series, Borislav noted compilation
failure with an allnoconfig build.
Turned out to be a missing include of insn.h in alternative.c.
With MPX, it got it implicitly from:
asm/mmu_context.h -> asm/mpx.h -> asm/insn.h
Fixes: c3d6324f841b ("x86/alternatives: Teach text_poke_bp() to emulate instructions")
Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
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Previously, the assignment to the local variable 'now' took place
before the for loop. The loop is unconditional so it will be entered
at least once. The variable 'now' is reassigned in the loop and is not
used before reassigning. Therefore, the assignment before the loop is
unnecessary and can be removed.
No code changed:
# arch/x86/kernel/tsc_sync.o:
text data bss dec hex filename
3569 198 44 3811 ee3 tsc_sync.o.before
3569 198 44 3811 ee3 tsc_sync.o.after
md5:
36216de29b208edbcd34fed9fe7f7b69 tsc_sync.o.before.asm
36216de29b208edbcd34fed9fe7f7b69 tsc_sync.o.after.asm
[ bp: Massage commit message. ]
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Nosek <mateusznosek0@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200118171143.25178-1-mateusznosek0@gmail.com
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Commit
334b0f4e9b1b ("x86/resctrl: Fix a deadlock due to inaccurate reference")
changed the argument to rdtgroup_kn_lock_live()/rdtgroup_kn_unlock()
within mkdir_rdt_prepare(). That change resulted in an unused function
parameter to mkdir_rdt_prepare().
Clean up the unused function parameter in mkdir_rdt_prepare() and its
callers rdtgroup_mkdir_mon() and rdtgroup_mkdir_ctrl_mon().
Signed-off-by: Xiaochen Shen <xiaochen.shen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1578500886-21771-5-git-send-email-xiaochen.shen@intel.com
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There is a race condition which results in a deadlock when rmdir and
mkdir execute concurrently:
$ ls /sys/fs/resctrl/c1/mon_groups/m1/
cpus cpus_list mon_data tasks
Thread 1: rmdir /sys/fs/resctrl/c1
Thread 2: mkdir /sys/fs/resctrl/c1/mon_groups/m1
3 locks held by mkdir/48649:
#0: (sb_writers#17){.+.+}, at: [<ffffffffb4ca2aa0>] mnt_want_write+0x20/0x50
#1: (&type->i_mutex_dir_key#8/1){+.+.}, at: [<ffffffffb4c8c13b>] filename_create+0x7b/0x170
#2: (rdtgroup_mutex){+.+.}, at: [<ffffffffb4a4389d>] rdtgroup_kn_lock_live+0x3d/0x70
4 locks held by rmdir/48652:
#0: (sb_writers#17){.+.+}, at: [<ffffffffb4ca2aa0>] mnt_want_write+0x20/0x50
#1: (&type->i_mutex_dir_key#8/1){+.+.}, at: [<ffffffffb4c8c3cf>] do_rmdir+0x13f/0x1e0
#2: (&type->i_mutex_dir_key#8){++++}, at: [<ffffffffb4c86d5d>] vfs_rmdir+0x4d/0x120
#3: (rdtgroup_mutex){+.+.}, at: [<ffffffffb4a4389d>] rdtgroup_kn_lock_live+0x3d/0x70
Thread 1 is deleting control group "c1". Holding rdtgroup_mutex,
kernfs_remove() removes all kernfs nodes under directory "c1"
recursively, then waits for sub kernfs node "mon_groups" to drop active
reference.
Thread 2 is trying to create a subdirectory "m1" in the "mon_groups"
directory. The wrapper kernfs_iop_mkdir() takes an active reference to
the "mon_groups" directory but the code drops the active reference to
the parent directory "c1" instead.
As a result, Thread 1 is blocked on waiting for active reference to drop
and never release rdtgroup_mutex, while Thread 2 is also blocked on
trying to get rdtgroup_mutex.
Thread 1 (rdtgroup_rmdir) Thread 2 (rdtgroup_mkdir)
(rmdir /sys/fs/resctrl/c1) (mkdir /sys/fs/resctrl/c1/mon_groups/m1)
------------------------- -------------------------
kernfs_iop_mkdir
/*
* kn: "m1", parent_kn: "mon_groups",
* prgrp_kn: parent_kn->parent: "c1",
*
* "mon_groups", parent_kn->active++: 1
*/
kernfs_get_active(parent_kn)
kernfs_iop_rmdir
/* "c1", kn->active++ */
kernfs_get_active(kn)
rdtgroup_kn_lock_live
atomic_inc(&rdtgrp->waitcount)
/* "c1", kn->active-- */
kernfs_break_active_protection(kn)
mutex_lock
rdtgroup_rmdir_ctrl
free_all_child_rdtgrp
sentry->flags = RDT_DELETED
rdtgroup_ctrl_remove
rdtgrp->flags = RDT_DELETED
kernfs_get(kn)
kernfs_remove(rdtgrp->kn)
__kernfs_remove
/* "mon_groups", sub_kn */
atomic_add(KN_DEACTIVATED_BIAS, &sub_kn->active)
kernfs_drain(sub_kn)
/*
* sub_kn->active == KN_DEACTIVATED_BIAS + 1,
* waiting on sub_kn->active to drop, but it
* never drops in Thread 2 which is blocked
* on getting rdtgroup_mutex.
*/
Thread 1 hangs here ---->
wait_event(sub_kn->active == KN_DEACTIVATED_BIAS)
...
rdtgroup_mkdir
rdtgroup_mkdir_mon(parent_kn, prgrp_kn)
mkdir_rdt_prepare(parent_kn, prgrp_kn)
rdtgroup_kn_lock_live(prgrp_kn)
atomic_inc(&rdtgrp->waitcount)
/*
* "c1", prgrp_kn->active--
*
* The active reference on "c1" is
* dropped, but not matching the
* actual active reference taken
* on "mon_groups", thus causing
* Thread 1 to wait forever while
* holding rdtgroup_mutex.
*/
kernfs_break_active_protection(
prgrp_kn)
/*
* Trying to get rdtgroup_mutex
* which is held by Thread 1.
*/
Thread 2 hangs here ----> mutex_lock
...
The problem is that the creation of a subdirectory in the "mon_groups"
directory incorrectly releases the active protection of its parent
directory instead of itself before it starts waiting for rdtgroup_mutex.
This is triggered by the rdtgroup_mkdir() flow calling
rdtgroup_kn_lock_live()/rdtgroup_kn_unlock() with kernfs node of the
parent control group ("c1") as argument. It should be called with kernfs
node "mon_groups" instead. What is currently missing is that the
kn->priv of "mon_groups" is NULL instead of pointing to the rdtgrp.
Fix it by pointing kn->priv to rdtgrp when "mon_groups" is created. Then
it could be passed to rdtgroup_kn_lock_live()/rdtgroup_kn_unlock()
instead. And then it operates on the same rdtgroup structure but handles
the active reference of kernfs node "mon_groups" to prevent deadlock.
The same changes are also made to the "mon_data" directories.
This results in some unused function parameters that will be cleaned up
in follow-up patch as the focus here is on the fix only in support of
backporting efforts.
Fixes: c7d9aac61311 ("x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add mkdir support for RDT monitoring")
Suggested-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Xiaochen Shen <xiaochen.shen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1578500886-21771-4-git-send-email-xiaochen.shen@intel.com
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There is a race condition in the following scenario which results in an
use-after-free issue when reading a monitoring file and deleting the
parent ctrl_mon group concurrently:
Thread 1 calls atomic_inc() to take refcount of rdtgrp and then calls
kernfs_break_active_protection() to drop the active reference of kernfs
node in rdtgroup_kn_lock_live().
In Thread 2, kernfs_remove() is a blocking routine. It waits on all sub
kernfs nodes to drop the active reference when removing all subtree
kernfs nodes recursively. Thread 2 could block on kernfs_remove() until
Thread 1 calls kernfs_break_active_protection(). Only after
kernfs_remove() completes the refcount of rdtgrp could be trusted.
Before Thread 1 calls atomic_inc() and kernfs_break_active_protection(),
Thread 2 could call kfree() when the refcount of rdtgrp (sentry) is 0
instead of 1 due to the race.
In Thread 1, in rdtgroup_kn_unlock(), referring to earlier rdtgrp memory
(rdtgrp->waitcount) which was already freed in Thread 2 results in
use-after-free issue.
Thread 1 (rdtgroup_mondata_show) Thread 2 (rdtgroup_rmdir)
-------------------------------- -------------------------
rdtgroup_kn_lock_live
/*
* kn active protection until
* kernfs_break_active_protection(kn)
*/
rdtgrp = kernfs_to_rdtgroup(kn)
rdtgroup_kn_lock_live
atomic_inc(&rdtgrp->waitcount)
mutex_lock
rdtgroup_rmdir_ctrl
free_all_child_rdtgrp
/*
* sentry->waitcount should be 1
* but is 0 now due to the race.
*/
kfree(sentry)*[1]
/*
* Only after kernfs_remove()
* completes, the refcount of
* rdtgrp could be trusted.
*/
atomic_inc(&rdtgrp->waitcount)
/* kn->active-- */
kernfs_break_active_protection(kn)
rdtgroup_ctrl_remove
rdtgrp->flags = RDT_DELETED
/*
* Blocking routine, wait for
* all sub kernfs nodes to drop
* active reference in
* kernfs_break_active_protection.
*/
kernfs_remove(rdtgrp->kn)
rdtgroup_kn_unlock
mutex_unlock
atomic_dec_and_test(
&rdtgrp->waitcount)
&& (flags & RDT_DELETED)
kernfs_unbreak_active_protection(kn)
kfree(rdtgrp)
mutex_lock
mon_event_read
rdtgroup_kn_unlock
mutex_unlock
/*
* Use-after-free: refer to earlier rdtgrp
* memory which was freed in [1].
*/
atomic_dec_and_test(&rdtgrp->waitcount)
&& (flags & RDT_DELETED)
/* kn->active++ */
kernfs_unbreak_active_protection(kn)
kfree(rdtgrp)
Fix it by moving free_all_child_rdtgrp() to after kernfs_remove() in
rdtgroup_rmdir_ctrl() to ensure it has the accurate refcount of rdtgrp.
Fixes: f3cbeacaa06e ("x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add rmdir support")
Suggested-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Xiaochen Shen <xiaochen.shen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1578500886-21771-3-git-send-email-xiaochen.shen@intel.com
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A resource group (rdtgrp) contains a reference count (rdtgrp->waitcount)
that indicates how many waiters expect this rdtgrp to exist. Waiters
could be waiting on rdtgroup_mutex or some work sitting on a task's
workqueue for when the task returns from kernel mode or exits.
The deletion of a rdtgrp is intended to have two phases:
(1) while holding rdtgroup_mutex the necessary cleanup is done and
rdtgrp->flags is set to RDT_DELETED,
(2) after releasing the rdtgroup_mutex, the rdtgrp structure is freed
only if there are no waiters and its flag is set to RDT_DELETED. Upon
gaining access to rdtgroup_mutex or rdtgrp, a waiter is required to check
for the RDT_DELETED flag.
When unmounting the resctrl file system or deleting ctrl_mon groups,
all of the subdirectories are removed and the data structure of rdtgrp
is forcibly freed without checking rdtgrp->waitcount. If at this point
there was a waiter on rdtgrp then a use-after-free issue occurs when the
waiter starts running and accesses the rdtgrp structure it was waiting
on.
See kfree() calls in [1], [2] and [3] in these two call paths in
following scenarios:
(1) rdt_kill_sb() -> rmdir_all_sub() -> free_all_child_rdtgrp()
(2) rdtgroup_rmdir() -> rdtgroup_rmdir_ctrl() -> free_all_child_rdtgrp()
There are several scenarios that result in use-after-free issue in
following:
Scenario 1:
-----------
In Thread 1, rdtgroup_tasks_write() adds a task_work callback
move_myself(). If move_myself() is scheduled to execute after Thread 2
rdt_kill_sb() is finished, referring to earlier rdtgrp memory
(rdtgrp->waitcount) which was already freed in Thread 2 results in
use-after-free issue.
Thread 1 (rdtgroup_tasks_write) Thread 2 (rdt_kill_sb)
------------------------------- ----------------------
rdtgroup_kn_lock_live
atomic_inc(&rdtgrp->waitcount)
mutex_lock
rdtgroup_move_task
__rdtgroup_move_task
/*
* Take an extra refcount, so rdtgrp cannot be freed
* before the call back move_myself has been invoked
*/
atomic_inc(&rdtgrp->waitcount)
/* Callback move_myself will be scheduled for later */
task_work_add(move_myself)
rdtgroup_kn_unlock
mutex_unlock
atomic_dec_and_test(&rdtgrp->waitcount)
&& (flags & RDT_DELETED)
mutex_lock
rmdir_all_sub
/*
* sentry and rdtgrp are freed
* without checking refcount
*/
free_all_child_rdtgrp
kfree(sentry)*[1]
kfree(rdtgrp)*[2]
mutex_unlock
/*
* Callback is scheduled to execute
* after rdt_kill_sb is finished
*/
move_myself
/*
* Use-after-free: refer to earlier rdtgrp
* memory which was freed in [1] or [2].
*/
atomic_dec_and_test(&rdtgrp->waitcount)
&& (flags & RDT_DELETED)
kfree(rdtgrp)
Scenario 2:
-----------
In Thread 1, rdtgroup_tasks_write() adds a task_work callback
move_myself(). If move_myself() is scheduled to execute after Thread 2
rdtgroup_rmdir() is finished, referring to earlier rdtgrp memory
(rdtgrp->waitcount) which was already freed in Thread 2 results in
use-after-free issue.
Thread 1 (rdtgroup_tasks_write) Thread 2 (rdtgroup_rmdir)
------------------------------- -------------------------
rdtgroup_kn_lock_live
atomic_inc(&rdtgrp->waitcount)
mutex_lock
rdtgroup_move_task
__rdtgroup_move_task
/*
* Take an extra refcount, so rdtgrp cannot be freed
* before the call back move_myself has been invoked
*/
atomic_inc(&rdtgrp->waitcount)
/* Callback move_myself will be scheduled for later */
task_work_add(move_myself)
rdtgroup_kn_unlock
mutex_unlock
atomic_dec_and_test(&rdtgrp->waitcount)
&& (flags & RDT_DELETED)
rdtgroup_kn_lock_live
atomic_inc(&rdtgrp->waitcount)
mutex_lock
rdtgroup_rmdir_ctrl
free_all_child_rdtgrp
/*
* sentry is freed without
* checking refcount
*/
kfree(sentry)*[3]
rdtgroup_ctrl_remove
rdtgrp->flags = RDT_DELETED
rdtgroup_kn_unlock
mutex_unlock
atomic_dec_and_test(
&rdtgrp->waitcount)
&& (flags & RDT_DELETED)
kfree(rdtgrp)
/*
* Callback is scheduled to execute
* after rdt_kill_sb is finished
*/
move_myself
/*
* Use-after-free: refer to earlier rdtgrp
* memory which was freed in [3].
*/
atomic_dec_and_test(&rdtgrp->waitcount)
&& (flags & RDT_DELETED)
kfree(rdtgrp)
If CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB=y, Slab corruption on kmalloc-2k can be observed
like following. Note that "0x6b" is POISON_FREE after kfree(). The
corrupted bits "0x6a", "0x64" at offset 0x424 correspond to
waitcount member of struct rdtgroup which was freed:
Slab corruption (Not tainted): kmalloc-2k start=ffff9504c5b0d000, len=2048
420: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6a 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b kkkkjkkkkkkkkkkk
Single bit error detected. Probably bad RAM.
Run memtest86+ or a similar memory test tool.
Next obj: start=ffff9504c5b0d800, len=2048
000: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
010: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
Slab corruption (Not tainted): kmalloc-2k start=ffff9504c58ab800, len=2048
420: 6b 6b 6b 6b 64 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b kkkkdkkkkkkkkkkk
Prev obj: start=ffff9504c58ab000, len=2048
000: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
010: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
Fix this by taking reference count (waitcount) of rdtgrp into account in
the two call paths that currently do not do so. Instead of always
freeing the resource group it will only be freed if there are no waiters
on it. If there are waiters, the resource group will have its flags set
to RDT_DELETED.
It will be left to the waiter to free the resource group when it starts
running and finding that it was the last waiter and the resource group
has been removed (rdtgrp->flags & RDT_DELETED) since. (1) rdt_kill_sb()
-> rmdir_all_sub() -> free_all_child_rdtgrp() (2) rdtgroup_rmdir() ->
rdtgroup_rmdir_ctrl() -> free_all_child_rdtgrp()
Fixes: f3cbeacaa06e ("x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add rmdir support")
Fixes: 60cf5e101fd4 ("x86/intel_rdt: Add mkdir to resctrl file system")
Suggested-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Xiaochen Shen <xiaochen.shen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1578500886-21771-2-git-send-email-xiaochen.shen@intel.com
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Both functions call init_intel_cacheinfo() which computes L2 and L3 cache
sizes from CPUID(4). But then they also call cpu_detect_cache_sizes() a
bit later which computes ->x86_tlbsize and L2 size from CPUID(80000006).
However, the latter call is not needed because
- on these CPUs, CPUID(80000006).EBX for ->x86_tlbsize is reserved
- CPUID(80000006).ECX for the L2 size has the same result as CPUID(4)
Therefore, remove the latter call to simplify the code.
[ bp: Rewrite commit message. ]
Signed-off-by: Tony W Wang-oc <TonyWWang-oc@zhaoxin.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1579075257-6985-1-git-send-email-TonyWWang-oc@zhaoxin.com
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Monitoring tools that want to find out which resctrl control and monitor
groups a task belongs to must currently read the "tasks" file in every
group until they locate the process ID.
Add an additional file /proc/{pid}/cpu_resctrl_groups to provide this
information:
1) res:
mon:
resctrl is not available.
2) res:/
mon:
Task is part of the root resctrl control group, and it is not associated
to any monitor group.
3) res:/
mon:mon0
Task is part of the root resctrl control group and monitor group mon0.
4) res:group0
mon:
Task is part of resctrl control group group0, and it is not associated
to any monitor group.
5) res:group0
mon:mon1
Task is part of resctrl control group group0 and monitor group mon1.
Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Tested-by: Jinshi Chen <jinshi.chen@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200115092851.14761-1-yu.c.chen@intel.com
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When checking whether the reported lfb_size makes sense, the height
* stride result is page-aligned before seeing whether it exceeds the
reported size.
This doesn't work if height * stride is not an exact number of pages.
For example, as reported in the kernel bugzilla below, an 800x600x32 EFI
framebuffer gets skipped because of this.
Move the PAGE_ALIGN to after the check vs size.
Reported-by: Christopher Head <chead@chead.ca>
Tested-by: Christopher Head <chead@chead.ca>
Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206051
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200107230410.2291947-1-nivedita@alum.mit.edu
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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We carry a quirk in the x86 EFI code to switch back to an older
method of mapping the EFI runtime services memory regions, because
it was deemed risky at the time to implement a new method without
providing a fallback to the old method in case problems arose.
Such problems did arise, but they appear to be limited to SGI UV1
machines, and so these are the only ones for which the fallback gets
enabled automatically (via a DMI quirk). The fallback can be enabled
manually as well, by passing efi=old_map, but there is very little
evidence that suggests that this is something that is being relied
upon in the field.
Given that UV1 support is not enabled by default by the distros
(Ubuntu, Fedora), there is no point in carrying this fallback code
all the time if there are no other users. So let's move it into the
UV support code, and document that efi=old_map now requires this
support code to be enabled.
Note that efi=old_map has been used in the past on other SGI UV
machines to work around kernel regressions in production, so we
keep the option to enable it by hand, but only if the kernel was
built with UV support.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200113172245.27925-8-ardb@kernel.org
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar:
"Misc fixes:
- a resctrl fix for uninitialized objects found by debugobjects
- a resctrl memory leak fix
- fix the unintended re-enabling of the of SME and SEV CPU flags if
memory encryption was disabled at bootup via the MSR space"
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/CPU/AMD: Ensure clearing of SME/SEV features is maintained
x86/resctrl: Fix potential memory leak
x86/resctrl: Fix an imbalance in domain_remove_cpu()
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Currently, there are three static keys in the resctrl file system:
rdt_mon_enable_key and rdt_alloc_enable_key indicate if the monitoring
feature and the allocation feature are enabled, respectively. The
rdt_enable_key is enabled when either the monitoring feature or the
allocation feature is enabled.
If no monitoring feature is present (either hardware doesn't support a
monitoring feature or the feature is disabled by the kernel command line
option "rdt="), rdt_enable_key is still enabled but rdt_mon_enable_key
is disabled.
MBM is a monitoring feature. The MBM overflow handler intends to
check if the monitoring feature is not enabled for fast return.
So check the rdt_mon_enable_key in it instead of the rdt_enable_key as
former is the more accurate check.
[ bp: Massage commit message. ]
Fixes: e33026831bdb ("x86/intel_rdt/mbm: Handle counter overflow")
Signed-off-by: Xiaochen Shen <xiaochen.shen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1576094705-13660-1-git-send-email-xiaochen.shen@intel.com
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New Zhaoxin family 7 CPUs are not affected by the SWAPGS vulnerability. So
mark these CPUs in the cpu vulnerability whitelist accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Tony W Wang-oc <TonyWWang-oc@zhaoxin.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1579227872-26972-3-git-send-email-TonyWWang-oc@zhaoxin.com
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New Zhaoxin family 7 CPUs are not affected by SPECTRE_V2. So define a
separate cpu_vuln_whitelist bit NO_SPECTRE_V2 and add these CPUs to the cpu
vulnerability whitelist.
Signed-off-by: Tony W Wang-oc <TonyWWang-oc@zhaoxin.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1579227872-26972-2-git-send-email-TonyWWang-oc@zhaoxin.com
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/proc/cpuinfo currently reports Hardware Lock Elision (HLE) feature to
be present on boot cpu even if it was disabled during the bootup. This
is because cpuinfo_x86->x86_capability HLE bit is not updated after TSX
state is changed via the new MSR IA32_TSX_CTRL.
Update the cached HLE bit also since it is expected to change after an
update to CPUID_CLEAR bit in MSR IA32_TSX_CTRL.
Fixes: 95c5824f75f3 ("x86/cpu: Add a "tsx=" cmdline option with TSX disabled by default")
Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Neelima Krishnan <neelima.krishnan@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2529b99546294c893dfa1c89e2b3e46da3369a59.1578685425.git.pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com
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When CONFIG_PROC_FS is disabled, the compiler warns about an unused
variable:
arch/x86/kernel/apic/x2apic_uv_x.c: In function 'uv_setup_proc_files':
arch/x86/kernel/apic/x2apic_uv_x.c:1546:8: error: unused variable 'name' [-Werror=unused-variable]
char *name = hubless ? "hubless" : "hubbed";
Simplify the code so this variable is no longer needed.
Fixes: 8785968bce1c ("x86/platform/uv: Add UV Hubbed/Hubless Proc FS Files")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191212140419.315264-1-arnd@arndb.de
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If the SME and SEV features are present via CPUID, but memory encryption
support is not enabled (MSR 0xC001_0010[23]), the feature flags are cleared
using clear_cpu_cap(). However, if get_cpu_cap() is later called, these
feature flags will be reset back to present, which is not desired.
Change from using clear_cpu_cap() to setup_clear_cpu_cap() so that the
clearing of the flags is maintained.
Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.16.x-
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/226de90a703c3c0be5a49565047905ac4e94e8f3.1579125915.git.thomas.lendacky@amd.com
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Add the new PCI Device 18h IDs for AMD Family 19h systems. Note that
Family 19h systems will not have a new PCI root device ID.
Signed-off-by: Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200110015651.14887-4-Yazen.Ghannam@amd.com
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Add support for a new version of the Load Store unit bank type as
indicated by its McaType value, which will be present in future SMCA
systems.
Add the new (HWID, MCATYPE) tuple. Reuse the same name, since this is
logically the same to the user.
Also, add the new error descriptions to edac_mce_amd.
Signed-off-by: Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200110015651.14887-2-Yazen.Ghannam@amd.com
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Don't print an error message about VMX being disabled by BIOS if KVM,
the sole user of VMX, is disabled. E.g. if KVM is disabled and the MSR
is unlocked, the kernel will intentionally disable VMX when locking
feature control and then complain that "BIOS" disabled VMX.
Fixes: ef4d3bf19855 ("x86/cpu: Clear VMX feature flag if VMX is not fully enabled")
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200114202545.20296-1-sean.j.christopherson@intel.com
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It is relatively easy to trigger the following boot splat on an Ice Lake
client platform. The call stack is like:
kernel BUG at kernel/timer/timer.c:1152!
Call Trace:
__queue_delayed_work
queue_delayed_work_on
therm_throt_process
intel_thermal_interrupt
...
The reason is that a CPU's thermal interrupt is enabled prior to
executing its hotplug onlining callback which will initialize the
throttling workqueues.
Such a race can lead to therm_throt_process() accessing an uninitialized
therm_work, leading to the above BUG at a very early bootup stage.
Therefore, unmask the thermal interrupt vector only after having setup
the workqueues completely.
[ bp: Heavily massage commit message and correct comment formatting. ]
Fixes: f6656208f04e ("x86/mce/therm_throt: Optimize notifications of thermal throttle")
Signed-off-by: Chuansheng Liu <chuansheng.liu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200107004116.59353-1-chuansheng.liu@intel.com
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con_init in tty/vt.c will now set conswitchp to dummy_con if it's unset.
Drop it from arch setup code.
Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191218214506.49252-24-nivedita@alum.mit.edu
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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VDSO support for time namespaces needs to set up a page with the same
layout as VVAR. That timens page will be placed on position of VVAR page
inside namespace. That page has vdso_data->seq set to 1 to enforce
the slow path and vdso_data->clock_mode set to VCLOCK_TIMENS to enforce
the time namespace handling path.
To prepare the time namespace page the kernel needs to know the vdso_data
offset. Provide arch_get_vdso_data() helper for locating vdso_data on VVAR
page.
Co-developed-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191112012724.250792-22-dima@arista.com
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Add a new feature flag, X86_FEATURE_MSR_IA32_FEAT_CTL, to track whether
IA32_FEAT_CTL has been initialized. This will allow KVM, and any future
subsystems that depend on IA32_FEAT_CTL, to rely purely on cpufeatures
to query platform support, e.g. allows a future patch to remove KVM's
manual IA32_FEAT_CTL MSR checks.
Various features (on platforms that support IA32_FEAT_CTL) are dependent
on IA32_FEAT_CTL being configured and locked, e.g. VMX and LMCE. The
MSR is always configured during boot, but only if the CPU vendor is
recognized by the kernel. Because CPUID doesn't incorporate the current
IA32_FEAT_CTL value in its reporting of relevant features, it's possible
for a feature to be reported as supported in cpufeatures but not truly
enabled, e.g. if the CPU supports VMX but the kernel doesn't recognize
the CPU.
As a result, without the flag, KVM would see VMX as supported even if
IA32_FEAT_CTL hasn't been initialized, and so would need to manually
read the MSR and check the various enabling bits to avoid taking an
unexpected #GP on VMXON.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191221044513.21680-14-sean.j.christopherson@intel.com
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