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Revert "x86, hotplug: Use mwait to offline a processor, fix the legacy case"
authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Tue, 30 Aug 2011 22:35:11 +0000 (15:35 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Mon, 7 Nov 2011 20:31:51 +0000 (12:31 -0800)
This reverts commit 226917b0735f31cf5c704e07fdd590d99bbfae58 (upstream
ea53069231f9317062910d6e772cca4ce93de8c8 and
a68e5c94f7d3dd64fef34dd5d97e365cae4bb42a and
ce5f68246bf2385d6174856708d0b746dc378f20 all mushed together) as
Jonathan Nieder reports that this causes a regression on some hardware.

More details can be found at http://bugs.debian.org/622259

Cc: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c

index da35a70f612982579375f2549d148d2dc302c9fc..fa04deade0a628b017d7b9e47f437d8f1c5f4c11 100644 (file)
@@ -765,6 +765,29 @@ extern unsigned long               boot_option_idle_override;
 extern unsigned long           idle_halt;
 extern unsigned long           idle_nomwait;
 
+/*
+ * on systems with caches, caches must be flashed as the absolute
+ * last instruction before going into a suspended halt.  Otherwise,
+ * dirty data can linger in the cache and become stale on resume,
+ * leading to strange errors.
+ *
+ * perform a variety of operations to guarantee that the compiler
+ * will not reorder instructions.  wbinvd itself is serializing
+ * so the processor will not reorder.
+ *
+ * Systems without cache can just go into halt.
+ */
+static inline void wbinvd_halt(void)
+{
+       mb();
+       /* check for clflush to determine if wbinvd is legal */
+       if (cpu_has_clflush)
+               asm volatile("cli; wbinvd; 1: hlt; jmp 1b" : : : "memory");
+       else
+               while (1)
+                       halt();
+}
+
 extern void enable_sep_cpu(void);
 extern int sysenter_setup(void);
 
index 539bb6cacf54ded73356e17b5621453d57ec8fd8..7e8e905e2ccb98c1fe79c11fda27d122420401c5 100644 (file)
@@ -1338,94 +1338,11 @@ void play_dead_common(void)
        local_irq_disable();
 }
 
-#define MWAIT_SUBSTATE_MASK            0xf
-#define MWAIT_SUBSTATE_SIZE            4
-
-#define CPUID_MWAIT_LEAF               5
-#define CPUID5_ECX_EXTENSIONS_SUPPORTED 0x1
-
-/*
- * We need to flush the caches before going to sleep, lest we have
- * dirty data in our caches when we come back up.
- */
-static inline void mwait_play_dead(void)
-{
-       unsigned int eax, ebx, ecx, edx;
-       unsigned int highest_cstate = 0;
-       unsigned int highest_subcstate = 0;
-       int i;
-       void *mwait_ptr;
-
-       if (!cpu_has(&current_cpu_data, X86_FEATURE_MWAIT))
-               return;
-       if (!cpu_has(&current_cpu_data, X86_FEATURE_CLFLSH))
-               return;
-       if (current_cpu_data.cpuid_level < CPUID_MWAIT_LEAF)
-               return;
-
-       eax = CPUID_MWAIT_LEAF;
-       ecx = 0;
-       native_cpuid(&eax, &ebx, &ecx, &edx);
-
-       /*
-        * eax will be 0 if EDX enumeration is not valid.
-        * Initialized below to cstate, sub_cstate value when EDX is valid.
-        */
-       if (!(ecx & CPUID5_ECX_EXTENSIONS_SUPPORTED)) {
-               eax = 0;
-       } else {
-               edx >>= MWAIT_SUBSTATE_SIZE;
-               for (i = 0; i < 7 && edx; i++, edx >>= MWAIT_SUBSTATE_SIZE) {
-                       if (edx & MWAIT_SUBSTATE_MASK) {
-                               highest_cstate = i;
-                               highest_subcstate = edx & MWAIT_SUBSTATE_MASK;
-                       }
-               }
-               eax = (highest_cstate << MWAIT_SUBSTATE_SIZE) |
-                       (highest_subcstate - 1);
-       }
-
-       /*
-        * This should be a memory location in a cache line which is
-        * unlikely to be touched by other processors.  The actual
-        * content is immaterial as it is not actually modified in any way.
-        */
-       mwait_ptr = &current_thread_info()->flags;
-
-       wbinvd();
-
-       while (1) {
-               /*
-                * The CLFLUSH is a workaround for erratum AAI65 for
-                * the Xeon 7400 series.  It's not clear it is actually
-                * needed, but it should be harmless in either case.
-                * The WBINVD is insufficient due to the spurious-wakeup
-                * case where we return around the loop.
-                */
-               clflush(mwait_ptr);
-               __monitor(mwait_ptr, 0, 0);
-               mb();
-               __mwait(eax, 0);
-       }
-}
-
-static inline void hlt_play_dead(void)
-{
-       if (current_cpu_data.x86 >= 4)
-               wbinvd();
-
-       while (1) {
-               native_halt();
-       }
-}
-
 void native_play_dead(void)
 {
        play_dead_common();
        tboot_shutdown(TB_SHUTDOWN_WFS);
-
-       mwait_play_dead();      /* Only returns on failure */
-       hlt_play_dead();
+       wbinvd_halt();
 }
 
 #else /* ... !CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU */