linux.git/arch/x86/kernel/time.c, branch v5.6

x86/timer: Don't skip PIT setup when APIC is disabled or in legacy mode

2020-01-29T11:50:12+00:00

Tony reported a boot regression caused by the recent workaround for systems
which have a disabled (clock gate off) PIT.

On his machine the kernel fails to initialize the PIT because
apic_needs_pit() does not take into account whether the local APIC
interrupt delivery mode will actually allow to setup and use the local
APIC timer. This should be easy to reproduce with acpi=off on the
command line which also disables HPET.

Due to the way the PIT/HPET and APIC setup ordering works (APIC setup can
require working PIT/HPET) the information is not available at the point
where apic_needs_pit() makes this decision.

To address this, split out the interrupt mode selection from
apic_intr_mode_init(), invoke the selection before making the decision
whether PIT is required or not, and add the missing checks into
apic_needs_pit().

Fixes: c8c4076723da ("x86/timer: Skip PIT initialization on modern chipsets")
Reported-by: Anthony Buckley 
Tested-by: Anthony Buckley 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Daniel Drake 
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206125
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87sgk6tmk2.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de

Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2019-07-08T23:59:34+00:00

Pull x86 asm updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Most of the changes relate to Peter Zijlstra's cleanup of ptregs
  handling, in particular the i386 part is now much simplified and
  standardized - no more partial ptregs stack frames via the esp/ss
  oddity. This simplifies ftrace, kprobes, the unwinder, ptrace, kdump
  and kgdb.

  There's also a CR4 hardening enhancements by Kees Cook, to make the
  generic platform functions such as native_write_cr4() less useful as
  ROP gadgets that disable SMEP/SMAP. Also protect the WP bit of CR0
  against similar attacks.

  The rest is smaller cleanups/fixes"

* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/alternatives: Add int3_emulate_call() selftest
  x86/stackframe/32: Allow int3_emulate_push()
  x86/stackframe/32: Provide consistent pt_regs
  x86/stackframe, x86/ftrace: Add pt_regs frame annotations
  x86/stackframe, x86/kprobes: Fix frame pointer annotations
  x86/stackframe: Move ENCODE_FRAME_POINTER to asm/frame.h
  x86/entry/32: Clean up return from interrupt preemption path
  x86/asm: Pin sensitive CR0 bits
  x86/asm: Pin sensitive CR4 bits
  Documentation/x86: Fix path to entry_32.S
  x86/asm: Remove unused TASK_TI_flags from asm-offsets.c

x86/timer: Skip PIT initialization on modern chipsets

2019-06-29T09:35:35+00:00

Recent Intel chipsets including Skylake and ApolloLake have a special
ITSSPRC register which allows the 8254 PIT to be gated.  When gated, the
8254 registers can still be programmed as normal, but there are no IRQ0
timer interrupts.

Some products such as the Connex L1430 and exone go Rugged E11 use this
register to ship with the PIT gated by default. This causes Linux to fail
to boot:

  Kernel panic - not syncing: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work! Boot with
  apic=debug and send a report.

The panic happens before the framebuffer is initialized, so to the user, it
appears as an early boot hang on a black screen.

Affected products typically have a BIOS option that can be used to enable
the 8254 and make Linux work (Chipset -> South Cluster Configuration ->
Miscellaneous Configuration -> 8254 Clock Gating), however it would be best
to make Linux support the no-8254 case.

Modern sytems allow to discover the TSC and local APIC timer frequencies,
so the calibration against the PIT is not required. These systems have
always running timers and the local APIC timer works also in deep power
states.

So the setup of the PIT including the IO-APIC timer interrupt delivery
checks are a pointless exercise.

Skip the PIT setup and the IO-APIC timer interrupt checks on these systems,
which avoids the panic caused by non ticking PITs and also speeds up the
boot process.

Thanks to Daniel for providing the changelog, initial analysis of the
problem and testing against a variety of machines.

Reported-by: Daniel Drake 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Tested-by: Daniel Drake 
Cc: bp@alien8.de
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Cc: linux@endlessm.com
Cc: rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com
Cc: hdegoede@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190628072307.24678-1-drake@endlessm.com

x86/stackframe/32: Provide consistent pt_regs

2019-06-25T08:23:47+00:00

Currently pt_regs on x86_32 has an oddity in that kernel regs
(!user_mode(regs)) are short two entries (esp/ss). This means that any
code trying to use them (typically: regs->sp) needs to jump through
some unfortunate hoops.

Change the entry code to fix this up and create a full pt_regs frame.

This then simplifies various trampolines in ftrace and kprobes, the
stack unwinder, ptrace, kdump and kgdb.

Much thanks to Josh for help with the cleanups!

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf 
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'x86-vdso-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2018-10-23T18:07:25+00:00

Pull x86 vdso updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Two main changes:

   - Cleanups, simplifications and CLOCK_TAI support (Thomas Gleixner)

   - Improve code generation (Andy Lutomirski)"

* 'x86-vdso-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/vdso: Rearrange do_hres() to improve code generation
  x86/vdso: Document vgtod_ts better
  x86/vdso: Remove "memory" clobbers in the vDSO syscall fallbacks
  x66/vdso: Add CLOCK_TAI support
  x86/vdso: Move cycle_last handling into the caller
  x86/vdso: Simplify the invalid vclock case
  x86/vdso: Replace the clockid switch case
  x86/vdso: Collapse coarse functions
  x86/vdso: Collapse high resolution functions
  x86/vdso: Introduce and use vgtod_ts
  x86/vdso: Use unsigned int consistently for vsyscall_gtod_data:: Seq
  x86/vdso: Enforce 64bit clocksource
  x86/time: Implement clocksource_arch_init()
  clocksource: Provide clocksource_arch_init()

x86/time: Correct the attribute on jiffies' definition

2018-10-14T09:11:23+00:00

Clang warns that the declaration of jiffies in include/linux/jiffies.h
doesn't match the definition in arch/x86/time/kernel.c:

arch/x86/kernel/time.c:29:42: warning: section does not match previous declaration [-Wsection]
__visible volatile unsigned long jiffies __cacheline_aligned = INITIAL_JIFFIES;
                                         ^
./include/linux/cache.h:49:4: note: expanded from macro '__cacheline_aligned'
                 __section__(".data..cacheline_aligned")))
                 ^
./include/linux/jiffies.h:81:31: note: previous attribute is here
extern unsigned long volatile __cacheline_aligned_in_smp __jiffy_arch_data jiffies;
                              ^
./arch/x86/include/asm/cache.h:20:2: note: expanded from macro '__cacheline_aligned_in_smp'
        __page_aligned_data
        ^
./include/linux/linkage.h:39:29: note: expanded from macro '__page_aligned_data'
#define __page_aligned_data     __section(.data..page_aligned) __aligned(PAGE_SIZE)
                                ^
./include/linux/compiler_attributes.h:233:56: note: expanded from macro '__section'
#define __section(S)                    __attribute__((__section__(#S)))
                                                       ^
1 warning generated.

The declaration was changed in commit 7c30f352c852 ("jiffies.h: declare
jiffies and jiffies_64 with ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp") but wasn't
updated here. Make them match so Clang no longer warns.

Fixes: 7c30f352c852 ("jiffies.h: declare jiffies and jiffies_64 with ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp")
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: Nick Desaulniers 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181013005311.28617-1-natechancellor@gmail.com

x86/vdso: Enforce 64bit clocksource

2018-10-04T21:00:25+00:00

All VDSO clock sources are TSC based and use CLOCKSOURCE_MASK(64). There is
no point in masking with all FF. Get rid of it and enforce the mask in the
sanity checker.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Matt Rickard 
Cc: Stephen Boyd 
Cc: John Stultz 
Cc: Florian Weimer 
Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" 
Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov 
Cc: devel@linuxdriverproject.org
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: Paolo Bonzini 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Juergen Gross 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180917130707.151963007@linutronix.de

x86/time: Implement clocksource_arch_init()

2018-10-04T21:00:24+00:00

Runtime validate the VCLOCK_MODE in clocksource::archdata and disable
VCLOCK if invalid, which disables the VDSO but keeps the system running.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Matt Rickard 
Cc: Stephen Boyd 
Cc: John Stultz 
Cc: Florian Weimer 
Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" 
Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov 
Cc: devel@linuxdriverproject.org
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: Paolo Bonzini 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Juergen Gross 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180917130707.069167446@linutronix.de

x86: Don't include linux/irq.h from asm/hardirq.h

2018-08-05T07:53:13+00:00

The next patch in this series will have to make the definition of
irq_cpustat_t available to entering_irq().

Inclusion of asm/hardirq.h into asm/apic.h would cause circular header
dependencies like

  asm/smp.h
    asm/apic.h
      asm/hardirq.h
        linux/irq.h
          linux/topology.h
            linux/smp.h
              asm/smp.h

or

  linux/gfp.h
    linux/mmzone.h
      asm/mmzone.h
        asm/mmzone_64.h
          asm/smp.h
            asm/apic.h
              asm/hardirq.h
                linux/irq.h
                  linux/irqdesc.h
                    linux/kobject.h
                      linux/sysfs.h
                        linux/kernfs.h
                          linux/idr.h
                            linux/gfp.h

and others.

This causes compilation errors because of the header guards becoming
effective in the second inclusion: symbols/macros that had been defined
before wouldn't be available to intermediate headers in the #include chain
anymore.

A possible workaround would be to move the definition of irq_cpustat_t
into its own header and include that from both, asm/hardirq.h and
asm/apic.h.

However, this wouldn't solve the real problem, namely asm/harirq.h
unnecessarily pulling in all the linux/irq.h cruft: nothing in
asm/hardirq.h itself requires it. Also, note that there are some other
archs, like e.g. arm64, which don't have that #include in their
asm/hardirq.h.

Remove the linux/irq.h #include from x86' asm/hardirq.h.

Fix resulting compilation errors by adding appropriate #includes to *.c
files as needed.

Note that some of these *.c files could be cleaned up a bit wrt. to their
set of #includes, but that should better be done from separate patches, if
at all.

Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

x86/time: Unconditionally register legacy timer interrupt

2018-01-14T19:18:23+00:00

Even without a PIC/PIT the legacy timer interrupt is required for HPET in
legacy replacement mode.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: len.brown@intel.com
Cc: rui.zhang@intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171222092243.382623763@infradead.org