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<title>x86/cpu/amd: Enable the fixed Instructions Retired counter IRPERF</title>
<updated>2020-02-19T19:01:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kim Phillips</name>
<email>kim.phillips@amd.com</email>
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<published>2020-02-19T17:52:43+00:00</published>
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Commit

  aaf248848db50 ("perf/x86/msr: Add AMD IRPERF (Instructions Retired)
		  performance counter")

added support for access to the free-running counter via 'perf -e
msr/irperf/', but when exercised, it always returns a 0 count:

BEFORE:

  $ perf stat -e instructions,msr/irperf/ true

   Performance counter stats for 'true':

             624,833      instructions
                   0      msr/irperf/

Simply set its enable bit - HWCR bit 30 - to make it start counting.

Enablement is restricted to all machines advertising IRPERF capability,
except those susceptible to an erratum that makes the IRPERF return
bad values.

That erratum occurs in Family 17h models 00-1fh [1], but not in F17h
models 20h and above [2].

AFTER (on a family 17h model 31h machine):

  $ perf stat -e instructions,msr/irperf/ true

   Performance counter stats for 'true':

             621,690      instructions
             622,490      msr/irperf/

[1] Revision Guide for AMD Family 17h Models 00h-0Fh Processors
[2] Revision Guide for AMD Family 17h Models 30h-3Fh Processors

The revision guides are available from the bugzilla Link below.

 [ bp: Massage commit message. ]

Fixes: aaf248848db50 ("perf/x86/msr: Add AMD IRPERF (Instructions Retired) performance counter")
Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips &lt;kim.phillips@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206537
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200214201805.13830-1-kim.phillips@amd.com
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Commit

  aaf248848db50 ("perf/x86/msr: Add AMD IRPERF (Instructions Retired)
		  performance counter")

added support for access to the free-running counter via 'perf -e
msr/irperf/', but when exercised, it always returns a 0 count:

BEFORE:

  $ perf stat -e instructions,msr/irperf/ true

   Performance counter stats for 'true':

             624,833      instructions
                   0      msr/irperf/

Simply set its enable bit - HWCR bit 30 - to make it start counting.

Enablement is restricted to all machines advertising IRPERF capability,
except those susceptible to an erratum that makes the IRPERF return
bad values.

That erratum occurs in Family 17h models 00-1fh [1], but not in F17h
models 20h and above [2].

AFTER (on a family 17h model 31h machine):

  $ perf stat -e instructions,msr/irperf/ true

   Performance counter stats for 'true':

             621,690      instructions
             622,490      msr/irperf/

[1] Revision Guide for AMD Family 17h Models 00h-0Fh Processors
[2] Revision Guide for AMD Family 17h Models 30h-3Fh Processors

The revision guides are available from the bugzilla Link below.

 [ bp: Massage commit message. ]

Fixes: aaf248848db50 ("perf/x86/msr: Add AMD IRPERF (Instructions Retired) performance counter")
Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips &lt;kim.phillips@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206537
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200214201805.13830-1-kim.phillips@amd.com
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2020-01-28T20:11:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-28T20:11:23+00:00</published>
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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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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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<entry>
<title>x86/CPU/AMD: Remove amd_get_topology_early()</title>
<updated>2020-01-25T11:59:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-23T16:54:33+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200123165811.5288-1-bp@alien8.de
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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 &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200123165811.5288-1-bp@alien8.de
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<entry>
<title>x86/CPU/AMD: Ensure clearing of SME/SEV features is maintained</title>
<updated>2020-01-16T19:23:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tom Lendacky</name>
<email>thomas.lendacky@amd.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-15T22:05:16+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 4.16.x-
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/226de90a703c3c0be5a49565047905ac4e94e8f3.1579125915.git.thomas.lendacky@amd.com
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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 &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 4.16.x-
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/226de90a703c3c0be5a49565047905ac4e94e8f3.1579125915.git.thomas.lendacky@amd.com
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2019-09-17T01:47:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-17T01:47:53+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 cpu-feature updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Rework the Intel model names symbols/macros, which were decades of
   ad-hoc extensions and added random noise. It's now a coherent, easy
   to follow nomenclature.

 - Add new Intel CPU model IDs:
    - "Tiger Lake" desktop and mobile models
    - "Elkhart Lake" model ID
    - and the "Lightning Mountain" variant of Airmont, plus support code

 - Add the new AVX512_VP2INTERSECT instruction to cpufeatures

 - Remove Intel MPX user-visible APIs and the self-tests, because the
   toolchain (gcc) is not supporting it going forward. This is the
   first, lowest-risk phase of MPX removal.

 - Remove X86_FEATURE_MFENCE_RDTSC

 - Various smaller cleanups and fixes

* 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (25 commits)
  x86/cpu: Update init data for new Airmont CPU model
  x86/cpu: Add new Airmont variant to Intel family
  x86/cpu: Add Elkhart Lake to Intel family
  x86/cpu: Add Tiger Lake to Intel family
  x86: Correct misc typos
  x86/intel: Add common OPTDIFFs
  x86/intel: Aggregate microserver naming
  x86/intel: Aggregate big core graphics naming
  x86/intel: Aggregate big core mobile naming
  x86/intel: Aggregate big core client naming
  x86/cpufeature: Explain the macro duplication
  x86/ftrace: Remove mcount() declaration
  x86/PCI: Remove superfluous returns from void functions
  x86/msr-index: Move AMD MSRs where they belong
  x86/cpu: Use constant definitions for CPU models
  lib: Remove redundant ftrace flag removal
  x86/crash: Remove unnecessary comparison
  x86/bitops: Use __builtin_constant_p() directly instead of IS_IMMEDIATE()
  x86: Remove X86_FEATURE_MFENCE_RDTSC
  x86/mpx: Remove MPX APIs
  ...
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Pull x86 cpu-feature updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Rework the Intel model names symbols/macros, which were decades of
   ad-hoc extensions and added random noise. It's now a coherent, easy
   to follow nomenclature.

 - Add new Intel CPU model IDs:
    - "Tiger Lake" desktop and mobile models
    - "Elkhart Lake" model ID
    - and the "Lightning Mountain" variant of Airmont, plus support code

 - Add the new AVX512_VP2INTERSECT instruction to cpufeatures

 - Remove Intel MPX user-visible APIs and the self-tests, because the
   toolchain (gcc) is not supporting it going forward. This is the
   first, lowest-risk phase of MPX removal.

 - Remove X86_FEATURE_MFENCE_RDTSC

 - Various smaller cleanups and fixes

* 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (25 commits)
  x86/cpu: Update init data for new Airmont CPU model
  x86/cpu: Add new Airmont variant to Intel family
  x86/cpu: Add Elkhart Lake to Intel family
  x86/cpu: Add Tiger Lake to Intel family
  x86: Correct misc typos
  x86/intel: Add common OPTDIFFs
  x86/intel: Aggregate microserver naming
  x86/intel: Aggregate big core graphics naming
  x86/intel: Aggregate big core mobile naming
  x86/intel: Aggregate big core client naming
  x86/cpufeature: Explain the macro duplication
  x86/ftrace: Remove mcount() declaration
  x86/PCI: Remove superfluous returns from void functions
  x86/msr-index: Move AMD MSRs where they belong
  x86/cpu: Use constant definitions for CPU models
  lib: Remove redundant ftrace flag removal
  x86/crash: Remove unnecessary comparison
  x86/bitops: Use __builtin_constant_p() directly instead of IS_IMMEDIATE()
  x86: Remove X86_FEATURE_MFENCE_RDTSC
  x86/mpx: Remove MPX APIs
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2019-09-17T00:25:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-17T00:25:49+00:00</published>
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Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - MAINTAINERS: Add Mark Rutland as perf submaintainer, Juri Lelli and
   Vincent Guittot as scheduler submaintainers. Add Dietmar Eggemann,
   Steven Rostedt, Ben Segall and Mel Gorman as scheduler reviewers.

   As perf and the scheduler is getting bigger and more complex,
   document the status quo of current responsibilities and interests,
   and spread the review pain^H^H^H^H fun via an increase in the Cc:
   linecount generated by scripts/get_maintainer.pl. :-)

 - Add another series of patches that brings the -rt (PREEMPT_RT) tree
   closer to mainline: split the monolithic CONFIG_PREEMPT dependencies
   into a new CONFIG_PREEMPTION category that will allow the eventual
   introduction of CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT. Still a few more hundred patches
   to go though.

 - Extend the CPU cgroup controller with uclamp.min and uclamp.max to
   allow the finer shaping of CPU bandwidth usage.

 - Micro-optimize energy-aware wake-ups from O(CPUS^2) to O(CPUS).

 - Improve the behavior of high CPU count, high thread count
   applications running under cpu.cfs_quota_us constraints.

 - Improve balancing with SCHED_IDLE (SCHED_BATCH) tasks present.

 - Improve CPU isolation housekeeping CPU allocation NUMA locality.

 - Fix deadline scheduler bandwidth calculations and logic when cpusets
   rebuilds the topology, or when it gets deadline-throttled while it's
   being offlined.

 - Convert the cpuset_mutex to percpu_rwsem, to allow it to be used from
   setscheduler() system calls without creating global serialization.
   Add new synchronization between cpuset topology-changing events and
   the deadline acceptance tests in setscheduler(), which were broken
   before.

 - Rework the active_mm state machine to be less confusing and more
   optimal.

 - Rework (simplify) the pick_next_task() slowpath.

 - Improve load-balancing on AMD EPYC systems.

 - ... and misc cleanups, smaller fixes and improvements - please see
   the Git log for more details.

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (53 commits)
  sched/psi: Correct overly pessimistic size calculation
  sched/fair: Speed-up energy-aware wake-ups
  sched/uclamp: Always use 'enum uclamp_id' for clamp_id values
  sched/uclamp: Update CPU's refcount on TG's clamp changes
  sched/uclamp: Use TG's clamps to restrict TASK's clamps
  sched/uclamp: Propagate system defaults to the root group
  sched/uclamp: Propagate parent clamps
  sched/uclamp: Extend CPU's cgroup controller
  sched/topology: Improve load balancing on AMD EPYC systems
  arch, ia64: Make NUMA select SMP
  sched, perf: MAINTAINERS update, add submaintainers and reviewers
  sched/fair: Use rq_lock/unlock in online_fair_sched_group
  cpufreq: schedutil: fix equation in comment
  sched: Rework pick_next_task() slow-path
  sched: Allow put_prev_task() to drop rq-&gt;lock
  sched/fair: Expose newidle_balance()
  sched: Add task_struct pointer to sched_class::set_curr_task
  sched: Rework CPU hotplug task selection
  sched/{rt,deadline}: Fix set_next_task vs pick_next_task
  sched: Fix kerneldoc comment for ia64_set_curr_task
  ...
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Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - MAINTAINERS: Add Mark Rutland as perf submaintainer, Juri Lelli and
   Vincent Guittot as scheduler submaintainers. Add Dietmar Eggemann,
   Steven Rostedt, Ben Segall and Mel Gorman as scheduler reviewers.

   As perf and the scheduler is getting bigger and more complex,
   document the status quo of current responsibilities and interests,
   and spread the review pain^H^H^H^H fun via an increase in the Cc:
   linecount generated by scripts/get_maintainer.pl. :-)

 - Add another series of patches that brings the -rt (PREEMPT_RT) tree
   closer to mainline: split the monolithic CONFIG_PREEMPT dependencies
   into a new CONFIG_PREEMPTION category that will allow the eventual
   introduction of CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT. Still a few more hundred patches
   to go though.

 - Extend the CPU cgroup controller with uclamp.min and uclamp.max to
   allow the finer shaping of CPU bandwidth usage.

 - Micro-optimize energy-aware wake-ups from O(CPUS^2) to O(CPUS).

 - Improve the behavior of high CPU count, high thread count
   applications running under cpu.cfs_quota_us constraints.

 - Improve balancing with SCHED_IDLE (SCHED_BATCH) tasks present.

 - Improve CPU isolation housekeeping CPU allocation NUMA locality.

 - Fix deadline scheduler bandwidth calculations and logic when cpusets
   rebuilds the topology, or when it gets deadline-throttled while it's
   being offlined.

 - Convert the cpuset_mutex to percpu_rwsem, to allow it to be used from
   setscheduler() system calls without creating global serialization.
   Add new synchronization between cpuset topology-changing events and
   the deadline acceptance tests in setscheduler(), which were broken
   before.

 - Rework the active_mm state machine to be less confusing and more
   optimal.

 - Rework (simplify) the pick_next_task() slowpath.

 - Improve load-balancing on AMD EPYC systems.

 - ... and misc cleanups, smaller fixes and improvements - please see
   the Git log for more details.

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (53 commits)
  sched/psi: Correct overly pessimistic size calculation
  sched/fair: Speed-up energy-aware wake-ups
  sched/uclamp: Always use 'enum uclamp_id' for clamp_id values
  sched/uclamp: Update CPU's refcount on TG's clamp changes
  sched/uclamp: Use TG's clamps to restrict TASK's clamps
  sched/uclamp: Propagate system defaults to the root group
  sched/uclamp: Propagate parent clamps
  sched/uclamp: Extend CPU's cgroup controller
  sched/topology: Improve load balancing on AMD EPYC systems
  arch, ia64: Make NUMA select SMP
  sched, perf: MAINTAINERS update, add submaintainers and reviewers
  sched/fair: Use rq_lock/unlock in online_fair_sched_group
  cpufreq: schedutil: fix equation in comment
  sched: Rework pick_next_task() slow-path
  sched: Allow put_prev_task() to drop rq-&gt;lock
  sched/fair: Expose newidle_balance()
  sched: Add task_struct pointer to sched_class::set_curr_task
  sched: Rework CPU hotplug task selection
  sched/{rt,deadline}: Fix set_next_task vs pick_next_task
  sched: Fix kerneldoc comment for ia64_set_curr_task
  ...
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<entry>
<title>sched/topology: Improve load balancing on AMD EPYC systems</title>
<updated>2019-09-03T07:17:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matt Fleming</name>
<email>matt@codeblueprint.co.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-08T19:53:01+00:00</published>
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SD_BALANCE_{FORK,EXEC} and SD_WAKE_AFFINE are stripped in sd_init()
for any sched domains with a NUMA distance greater than 2 hops
(RECLAIM_DISTANCE). The idea being that it's expensive to balance
across domains that far apart.

However, as is rather unfortunately explained in:

  commit 32e45ff43eaf ("mm: increase RECLAIM_DISTANCE to 30")

the value for RECLAIM_DISTANCE is based on node distance tables from
2011-era hardware.

Current AMD EPYC machines have the following NUMA node distances:

 node distances:
 node   0   1   2   3   4   5   6   7
   0:  10  16  16  16  32  32  32  32
   1:  16  10  16  16  32  32  32  32
   2:  16  16  10  16  32  32  32  32
   3:  16  16  16  10  32  32  32  32
   4:  32  32  32  32  10  16  16  16
   5:  32  32  32  32  16  10  16  16
   6:  32  32  32  32  16  16  10  16
   7:  32  32  32  32  16  16  16  10

where 2 hops is 32.

The result is that the scheduler fails to load balance properly across
NUMA nodes on different sockets -- 2 hops apart.

For example, pinning 16 busy threads to NUMA nodes 0 (CPUs 0-7) and 4
(CPUs 32-39) like so,

  $ numactl -C 0-7,32-39 ./spinner 16

causes all threads to fork and remain on node 0 until the active
balancer kicks in after a few seconds and forcibly moves some threads
to node 4.

Override node_reclaim_distance for AMD Zen.

Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@codeblueprint.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@surriel.com&gt;
Cc: Suravee.Suthikulpanit@amd.com
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Thomas.Lendacky@amd.com
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190808195301.13222-3-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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SD_BALANCE_{FORK,EXEC} and SD_WAKE_AFFINE are stripped in sd_init()
for any sched domains with a NUMA distance greater than 2 hops
(RECLAIM_DISTANCE). The idea being that it's expensive to balance
across domains that far apart.

However, as is rather unfortunately explained in:

  commit 32e45ff43eaf ("mm: increase RECLAIM_DISTANCE to 30")

the value for RECLAIM_DISTANCE is based on node distance tables from
2011-era hardware.

Current AMD EPYC machines have the following NUMA node distances:

 node distances:
 node   0   1   2   3   4   5   6   7
   0:  10  16  16  16  32  32  32  32
   1:  16  10  16  16  32  32  32  32
   2:  16  16  10  16  32  32  32  32
   3:  16  16  16  10  32  32  32  32
   4:  32  32  32  32  10  16  16  16
   5:  32  32  32  32  16  10  16  16
   6:  32  32  32  32  16  16  10  16
   7:  32  32  32  32  16  16  16  10

where 2 hops is 32.

The result is that the scheduler fails to load balance properly across
NUMA nodes on different sockets -- 2 hops apart.

For example, pinning 16 busy threads to NUMA nodes 0 (CPUs 0-7) and 4
(CPUs 32-39) like so,

  $ numactl -C 0-7,32-39 ./spinner 16

causes all threads to fork and remain on node 0 until the active
balancer kicks in after a few seconds and forcibly moves some threads
to node 4.

Override node_reclaim_distance for AMD Zen.

Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@codeblueprint.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@surriel.com&gt;
Cc: Suravee.Suthikulpanit@amd.com
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Thomas.Lendacky@amd.com
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190808195301.13222-3-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'v5.3-rc6' into x86/cpu, to pick up fixes</title>
<updated>2019-08-26T09:20:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-26T09:20:55+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>x86/CPU/AMD: Clear RDRAND CPUID bit on AMD family 15h/16h</title>
<updated>2019-08-19T17:42:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tom Lendacky</name>
<email>thomas.lendacky@amd.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-19T15:52:35+00:00</published>
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There have been reports of RDRAND issues after resuming from suspend on
some AMD family 15h and family 16h systems. This issue stems from a BIOS
not performing the proper steps during resume to ensure RDRAND continues
to function properly.

RDRAND support is indicated by CPUID Fn00000001_ECX[30]. This bit can be
reset by clearing MSR C001_1004[62]. Any software that checks for RDRAND
support using CPUID, including the kernel, will believe that RDRAND is
not supported.

Update the CPU initialization to clear the RDRAND CPUID bit for any family
15h and 16h processor that supports RDRAND. If it is known that the family
15h or family 16h system does not have an RDRAND resume issue or that the
system will not be placed in suspend, the "rdrand=force" kernel parameter
can be used to stop the clearing of the RDRAND CPUID bit.

Additionally, update the suspend and resume path to save and restore the
MSR C001_1004 value to ensure that the RDRAND CPUID setting remains in
place after resuming from suspend.

Note, that clearing the RDRAND CPUID bit does not prevent a processor
that normally supports the RDRAND instruction from executing it. So any
code that determined the support based on family and model won't #UD.

Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Andrew Cooper &lt;andrew.cooper3@citrix.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Chen Yu &lt;yu.c.chen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: "linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" &lt;linux-doc@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "linux-pm@vger.kernel.org" &lt;linux-pm@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Pavel Machek &lt;pavel@ucw.cz&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rjw@rjwysocki.net&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: "x86@kernel.org" &lt;x86@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/7543af91666f491547bd86cebb1e17c66824ab9f.1566229943.git.thomas.lendacky@amd.com
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There have been reports of RDRAND issues after resuming from suspend on
some AMD family 15h and family 16h systems. This issue stems from a BIOS
not performing the proper steps during resume to ensure RDRAND continues
to function properly.

RDRAND support is indicated by CPUID Fn00000001_ECX[30]. This bit can be
reset by clearing MSR C001_1004[62]. Any software that checks for RDRAND
support using CPUID, including the kernel, will believe that RDRAND is
not supported.

Update the CPU initialization to clear the RDRAND CPUID bit for any family
15h and 16h processor that supports RDRAND. If it is known that the family
15h or family 16h system does not have an RDRAND resume issue or that the
system will not be placed in suspend, the "rdrand=force" kernel parameter
can be used to stop the clearing of the RDRAND CPUID bit.

Additionally, update the suspend and resume path to save and restore the
MSR C001_1004 value to ensure that the RDRAND CPUID setting remains in
place after resuming from suspend.

Note, that clearing the RDRAND CPUID bit does not prevent a processor
that normally supports the RDRAND instruction from executing it. So any
code that determined the support based on family and model won't #UD.

Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Andrew Cooper &lt;andrew.cooper3@citrix.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Chen Yu &lt;yu.c.chen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: "linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" &lt;linux-doc@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "linux-pm@vger.kernel.org" &lt;linux-pm@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Pavel Machek &lt;pavel@ucw.cz&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rjw@rjwysocki.net&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: "x86@kernel.org" &lt;x86@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/7543af91666f491547bd86cebb1e17c66824ab9f.1566229943.git.thomas.lendacky@amd.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86: Remove X86_FEATURE_MFENCE_RDTSC</title>
<updated>2019-07-22T10:00:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
<email>jpoimboe@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-04T15:46:37+00:00</published>
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AMD and Intel both have serializing lfence (X86_FEATURE_LFENCE_RDTSC).
They've both had it for a long time, and AMD has had it enabled in Linux
since Spectre v1 was announced.

Back then, there was a proposal to remove the serializing mfence feature
bit (X86_FEATURE_MFENCE_RDTSC), since both AMD and Intel have
serializing lfence.  At the time, it was (ahem) speculated that some
hypervisors might not yet support its removal, so it remained for the
time being.

Now a year-and-a-half later, it should be safe to remove.

I asked Andrew Cooper about whether it's still needed:

  So if you're virtualised, you've got no choice in the matter.  lfence
  is either dispatch-serialising or not on AMD, and you won't be able to
  change it.

  Furthermore, you can't accurately tell what state the bit is in, because
  the MSR might not be virtualised at all, or may not reflect the true
  state in hardware.  Worse still, attempting to set the bit may not be
  successful even if there isn't a fault for doing so.

  Xen sets the DE_CFG bit unconditionally, as does Linux by the looks of
  things (see MSR_F10H_DECFG_LFENCE_SERIALIZE_BIT).  ISTR other hypervisor
  vendors saying the same, but I don't have any information to hand.

  If you are running under a hypervisor which has been updated, then
  lfence will almost certainly be dispatch-serialising in practice, and
  you'll almost certainly see the bit already set in DE_CFG.  If you're
  running under a hypervisor which hasn't been patched since Spectre,
  you've already lost in many more ways.

  I'd argue that X86_FEATURE_MFENCE_RDTSC is not worth keeping.

So remove it.  This will reduce some code rot, and also make it easier
to hook barrier_nospec() up to a cmdline disable for performance
raisins, without having to need an alternative_3() macro.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d990aa51e40063acb9888e8c1b688e41355a9588.1562255067.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com

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AMD and Intel both have serializing lfence (X86_FEATURE_LFENCE_RDTSC).
They've both had it for a long time, and AMD has had it enabled in Linux
since Spectre v1 was announced.

Back then, there was a proposal to remove the serializing mfence feature
bit (X86_FEATURE_MFENCE_RDTSC), since both AMD and Intel have
serializing lfence.  At the time, it was (ahem) speculated that some
hypervisors might not yet support its removal, so it remained for the
time being.

Now a year-and-a-half later, it should be safe to remove.

I asked Andrew Cooper about whether it's still needed:

  So if you're virtualised, you've got no choice in the matter.  lfence
  is either dispatch-serialising or not on AMD, and you won't be able to
  change it.

  Furthermore, you can't accurately tell what state the bit is in, because
  the MSR might not be virtualised at all, or may not reflect the true
  state in hardware.  Worse still, attempting to set the bit may not be
  successful even if there isn't a fault for doing so.

  Xen sets the DE_CFG bit unconditionally, as does Linux by the looks of
  things (see MSR_F10H_DECFG_LFENCE_SERIALIZE_BIT).  ISTR other hypervisor
  vendors saying the same, but I don't have any information to hand.

  If you are running under a hypervisor which has been updated, then
  lfence will almost certainly be dispatch-serialising in practice, and
  you'll almost certainly see the bit already set in DE_CFG.  If you're
  running under a hypervisor which hasn't been patched since Spectre,
  you've already lost in many more ways.

  I'd argue that X86_FEATURE_MFENCE_RDTSC is not worth keeping.

So remove it.  This will reduce some code rot, and also make it easier
to hook barrier_nospec() up to a cmdline disable for performance
raisins, without having to need an alternative_3() macro.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d990aa51e40063acb9888e8c1b688e41355a9588.1562255067.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com

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