Return the correct return value when the CPUID driver partially
completes a request (we should return the number of bytes actually
read or written, instead of the error code.)
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Return the correct return value when the MSR driver partially
completes a request (we should return the number of bytes actually
read or written, instead of the error code.)
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Propagate error (-ENXIO) from smp_call_function_single() in the CPUID
driver. This can happen when a CPU is unplugged while the CPUID
driver is open.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Propagate error (-ENXIO) from smp_call_function_single(). These
errors can happen when a CPU is unplugged while the MSR driver is
open.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
I noticed that my sched_clock() was slow on a number of machine, so I
started looking at cpufreq.
The below seems to fix the problem for me.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Triple-fault and keyboard reset may assert INIT instead of RESET; however
INIT is blocked when Intel VT is enabled. This leads to a partially reset
machine when invoking emergency_restart via sysrq-b: the processor is still
working but other parts of the system are dead.
Default to rebooting via ACPI, which correctly asserts RESET and reboots the
machine.
This is safe since we will fall back to keyboard reset and triple fault if
acpi is not enabled or if the reset is not successful.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: crash on non-TSC-equipped CPUs
Don't enable the TSC notifier if we *either*:
1. don't have a CPU, or
2. have a CPU with constant TSC.
In either of those cases, the notifier is either damaging (1) or useless(2).
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
During CPU hot-remove the sysfs directory created by
threshold_create_bank(), defined in
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd_64.c, has to be removed before
its parent directory, created by mce_create_device(), defined in
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_64.c . Moreover, when the CPU in
question is hotplugged again, obviously the latter has to be created
before the former. At present, the right ordering is not enforced,
because all of these operations are carried out by CPU hotplug
notifiers which are not appropriately ordered with respect to each
other. This leads to serious problems on systems with two or more
multicore AMD CPUs, among other things during suspend and hibernation.
Fix the problem by placing threshold bank CPU hotplug callbacks in
mce_cpu_callback(), so that they are invoked at the right places,
if defined. Additionally, use kobject_del() to remove the sysfs
directory associated with the kobject created by
kobject_create_and_add() in threshold_create_bank(), to prevent the
kernel from crashing during CPU hotplug operations on systems with
two or more multicore AMD CPUs.
This patch fixes bug #11337.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Tested-by: Mark Langsdorf <mark.langsdorf@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: work around MTRR mask setting, v2
x86: fix section mismatch warning - uv_cpu_init
x86: fix VMI for early params
x86: fix two modpost warnings in mm/init_64.c
x86: fix 1:1 mapping init on 64-bit (memory hotplug case)
x86: work around MTRR mask setting
x86: PAT Update validate_pat_support for intel CPUs
devmem, x86: PAT Change /dev/mem mmap with O_SYNC to use UC_MINUS
x86: PAT proper tracking of set_memory_uc and friends
x86: fix BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request (numaq_tsc_disable)
x86: export pv_lock_ops non-GPL
x86, mmiotrace: silence section mismatch warning - leave_uniprocessor
x86: use WARN() in arch/x86/kernel
x86: use WARN() in arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c
werror: fix pci calgary
x86: fix oprofile + hibernation badness
x86, SGI UV: hardcode the TLB flush interrupt system vector
x86: fix Xorg startup/shutdown slowdown with PAT
x86: fix "kernel won't boot on a Cyrix MediaGXm (Geode)"
x86 iommu: remove unneeded parenthesis
improve the debug printout:
- make it actually display something
- print it only once
would be nice to have a WARN_ONCE() facility, to feed such things to
kerneloops.org.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.cpuinit.text+0x3cc4): Section mismatch in reference from the function uv_cpu_init() to the function .init.text:uv_system_init()
The function __cpuinit uv_cpu_init() references
a function __init uv_system_init().
If uv_system_init is only used by uv_cpu_init then
annotate uv_system_init with a matching annotation.
uv_system_init was ment to be called only once, so do it from codepath
(native_smp_prepare_cpus) which is called once, right before activation
of other cpus (smp_init).
Note: old code relied on uv_node_to_blade being initialized to 0,
but it'a not initialized from anywhere.
Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
alloc_coherent dma_ops callback was added to GART, however, it doesn't
return a size aligned address wrt dma_alloc_coherent, as
DMA-mapping.txt defines. This patch fixes it.
This patch also removes unused gart_map_simple
(dma_mapping_ops->map_simple has gone).
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
pci-dma.c doesn't use map_simple hook any more so we can remove it
from struct dma_mapping_ops now.
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
All the x86 DMA-API functions are defined in asm/dma-mapping.h. This patch
moves the dma_*_coherent functions also to this header file because they are
now small enough to do so.
This is done as a separate patch because it also includes some renaming and
restructuring of the dma-mapping.h file.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roede@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
All dma_ops implementations support the alloc_coherent and free_coherent
callbacks now. This allows a big simplification of the dma_alloc_coherent
function which is done with this patch. The dma_free_coherent functions is also
cleaned up and calls now the free_coherent callback of the dma_ops
implementation.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
[ v2 - x86: make gart_alloc_coherent return zeroed memory
FUJITA Tomonori pointed it out that the dma_alloc_coherent function
should return memory set to zero. This patch adds this to the GART
implementation too. ]
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
while fixing a different bug i moved the call to vmi_init before
early params could be parsed.
This broke the vmi specific commandline parameters.
Fix that, by moving vmi initialization after kernel has got a chance to
parse early parameters.
Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Joshua Hoblitt reported that only 3 GB of his 16 GB of RAM is
usable. Booting with mtrr_show showed us the BIOS-initialized
MTRR settings - which are all wrong.
So the root cause is that the BIOS has not set the mask correctly:
> [ 0.429971] MSR00000200: 00000000d0000000
> [ 0.433305] MSR00000201: 0000000ff0000800
> should be ==> [ 0.433305] MSR00000201: 0000003ff0000800
>
> [ 0.436638] MSR00000202: 00000000e0000000
> [ 0.439971] MSR00000203: 0000000fe0000800
> should be ==> [ 0.439971] MSR00000203: 0000003fe0000800
>
> [ 0.443304] MSR00000204: 0000000000000006
> [ 0.446637] MSR00000205: 0000000c00000800
> should be ==> [ 0.446637] MSR00000205: 0000003c00000800
>
> [ 0.449970] MSR00000206: 0000000400000006
> [ 0.453303] MSR00000207: 0000000fe0000800
> should be ==> [ 0.453303] MSR00000207: 0000003fe0000800
>
> [ 0.456636] MSR00000208: 0000000420000006
> [ 0.459970] MSR00000209: 0000000ff0000800
> should be ==> [ 0.459970] MSR00000209: 0000003ff0000800
So detect this borkage and add the prefix 111.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch changes the pfn args from 'u32' to 'unsigned long'
on alloc_p*() functions on paravirt_ops, and the corresponding
implementations for Xen and VMI. The prototypes for CONFIG_PARAVIRT=n
are already using unsigned long, so paravirt.h now matches the prototypes
on asm-x86/pgalloc.h.
It shouldn't result in any changes on generated code on 32-bit, with
or without CONFIG_PARAVIRT. On both cases, 'codiff -f' didn't show any
change after applying this patch.
On 64-bit, there are (expected) binary changes only when CONFIG_PARAVIRT
is enabled, as the patch is really supposed to change the size of the
pfn args.
[ v2: KVM_GUEST: use the right parameter type on kvm_release_pt() ]
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Acked-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Pentium III and Core Solo/Duo CPUs have an erratum
" Page with PAT set to WC while associated MTRR is UC may consolidate to UC "
which can result in WC setting in PAT to be ineffective. We will disable
PAT on such CPUs, so that we can continue to use MTRR WC setting.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This section mismatch:
>> Seems to be a section mismatch; init_intel() is __cpuinit while
>> numaq_tsc_disable() is __init. Seems to be introduced in:
>>
>> commit 64898a8bad
>> Author: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
>> Date: Sat Jul 19 18:01:16 2008 -0700
>>
>> x86: extend and use x86_quirks to clean up NUMAQ code
>
> Oops, I am wrong about numaq_tsc_disable() being __init. Still, I
> believe that Yinghai might be able to say what's really wrong :-)
Would lead to this crash:
BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at c08a45f0
IP: [<c08a45f0>] numaq_tsc_disable+0x0/0x40
Fixed by the patch below.
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
None of the spinlock API is exported GPL, so there's no reason for
pv_lock_ops to be.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: drago01 <drago01@gmail.com>
Use WARN() instead of a printk+WARN_ON() pair; this way the message
becomes part of the warning section for better reporting/collection.
This also allowed the folding of some if()'s into the WARN()
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fix an integer comparison always false warning in the PCI Calgary 64 driver.
A u8 is being compared to something that's 512 by default, resulting in the
following warning:
arch/x86/kernel/pci-calgary_64.c:1285: warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of data type
This was introduced by patch b34e90b8f0.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The UV TLB shootdown mechanism needs a system interrupt vector.
Its vector had been hardcoded as 200, but needs to moved to the reserved
system vector range so that it does not collide with some device vector.
This is still temporary until dynamic system IRQ allocation is provided.
But it will be needed when real UV hardware becomes available and runs 2.6.27.
Signed-off-by: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cyrix MediaGXm/Cx5530 Unicorn Revision 1.19.3B has stopped
booting starting at v2.6.22.
The reason is this commit:
> commit f25f64ed5b
> Author: Juergen Beisert <juergen@kreuzholzen.de>
> Date: Sun Jul 22 11:12:38 2007 +0200
>
> x86: Replace NSC/Cyrix specific chipset access macros by inlined functions.
this commit activated a macro which was dormant before due to (buggy)
macro side-effects.
I've looked through various datasheets and found that the GXm and GXLV
Geode processors don't have an incrementor.
Remove the incrementor setup entirely. As the incrementor value
differs according to clock speed and we would hope that the BIOS
configures it correctly, it is probably the right solution.
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This reverts commit 34ae7f35a2, which has
been reported to cause a number of problems. During suspend and resume,
it apparently causes a crash in a CPU hotplug notifier to happen,
although the exact details are sketchy because of the inability to get
good traces during the suspend sequence.
See buzilla entries
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11296http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11339
for more examples and details.
[ Mark: "Revert the patch for now. I'm still looking into getting a
reliable reproduction and I do not have a fix at this time." ]
Requested-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Mark Langsdorf <mark.langsdorf@amd.com>
Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@inux-foundation.org>
The parenthesis in __iommu_queue_command() are not needed when assigning
into 'target' variable.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x27032): Section mismatch in reference from the function get_tce_space_from_tar() to the function .init.text:calgary_bus_has_devices()
The function get_tce_space_from_tar() references
the function __init calgary_bus_has_devices().
This is often because get_tce_space_from_tar lacks a __init
annotation or the annotation of calgary_bus_has_devices is wrong.
get_tce_space_from_tar is called only from __init function (calgary_init)
and calls __init function (calgary_bus_has_devices).
So annotate it properly.
Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Cc: Chandru Siddalingappa <chandru@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Take out part of get_local_pda referencing __init function (free_bootmem)
to new (static) function marked as __ref. It's safe to do because free_bootmem
is called before __init sections are dropped.
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.cpuinit.text+0x3cd7): Section mismatch in reference from the function get_local_pda() to the function .init.text:free_bootmem()
The function __cpuinit get_local_pda() references
a function __init free_bootmem().
If free_bootmem is only used by get_local_pda then
annotate free_bootmem with a matching annotation.
Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
arch/x86/power/cpu_32.c __save_processor_state calls read_cr4()
only a i486 CPU doesn't have the CR4 register. Trying to read it
produces an invalid opcode oops during suspend to disk.
Use the safe rc4 reading op instead. If the value to be written is
zero the write is skipped.
arch/x86/power/hibernate_asm_32.S
done: swapped the use of %eax and %ecx to use jecxz for
the zero test and jump over store to %cr4.
restore_image: s/%ecx/%eax/ to be consistent with done:
In addition to __save_processor_state, acpi_save_state_mem,
efi_call_phys_prelog, and efi_call_phys_epilog had checks added
(acpi restore was in assembly and already had a check for
non-zero). There were other reads and writes of CR4, but MCE and
virtualization shouldn't be executed on a i486 anyway.
Signed-off-by: David Fries <david@fries.net>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x118f7): Section mismatch in reference from the function construct_ioapic_table() to the function .init.text:MP_bus_info()
The function construct_ioapic_table() references
the function __init MP_bus_info().
This is often because construct_ioapic_table lacks a __init
annotation or the annotation of MP_bus_info is wrong.
construct_ioapic_table is called only from construct_default_ISA_mptable which is __init
Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
WARNING: arch/x86/kernel/built-in.o(.cpuinit.text+0x1591): Section mismatch in reference from the function init_amd() to the function .init.text:check_enable_amd_mmconf_dmi()
The function __cpuinit init_amd() references
a function __init check_enable_amd_mmconf_dmi().
If check_enable_amd_mmconf_dmi is only used by init_amd then
annotate check_enable_amd_mmconf_dmi with a matching annotation.
check_enable_amd_mmconf_dmi is only called from init_amd which is __cpuinit
Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
WARNING: arch/x86/kernel/built-in.o(.cpuinit.text+0x1fe7): Section mismatch in reference from the function MP_processor_info() to the variable .init.data:x86_quirks
The function __cpuinit MP_processor_info() references
a variable __initdata x86_quirks.
If x86_quirks is only used by MP_processor_info then
annotate x86_quirks with a matching annotation.
MP_processor_info uses x86_quirks which is __init and is used only from
smp_read_mpc and construct_default_ISA_mptable which are __init
Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x7950): Section mismatch in reference from the function native_calibrate_tsc() to the function .init.text:tsc_read_refs()
The function native_calibrate_tsc() references
the function __init tsc_read_refs().
This is often because native_calibrate_tsc lacks a __init
annotation or the annotation of tsc_read_refs is wrong.
tsc_read_refs is called from native_calibrate_tsc which is not __init
and native_calibrate_tsc cannot be marked __init
Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch changes GART IOMMU to return a size aligned address wrt
dma_alloc_coherent, as DMA-mapping.txt defines:
The cpu return address and the DMA bus master address are both
guaranteed to be aligned to the smallest PAGE_SIZE order which
is greater than or equal to the requested size. This invariant
exists (for example) to guarantee that if you allocate a chunk
which is smaller than or equal to 64 kilobytes, the extent of the
buffer you receive will not cross a 64K boundary.
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (32 commits)
x86: add MAP_STACK mmap flag
x86: fix section mismatch warning - spp_getpage()
x86: change init_gdt to update the gdt via write_gdt, rather than a direct write.
x86-64: fix overlap of modules and fixmap areas
x86, geode-mfgpt: check IRQ before using MFGPT as clocksource
x86, acpi: cleanup, temp_stack is used only when CONFIG_SMP is set
x86: fix spin_is_contended()
x86, nmi: clean UP NMI watchdog failure message
x86, NMI: fix watchdog failure message
x86: fix /proc/meminfo DirectMap
x86: fix readb() et al compile error with gcc-3.2.3
arch/x86/Kconfig: clean up, experimental adjustement
x86: invalidate caches before going into suspend
x86, perfctr: don't use CCCR_OVF_PMI1 on Pentium 4Ds
x86, AMD IOMMU: initialize dma_ops after sysfs registration
x86m AMD IOMMU: cleanup: replace LOW_U32 macro with generic lower_32_bits
x86, AMD IOMMU: initialize device table properly
x86, AMD IOMMU: use status bit instead of memory write-back for completion wait
x86: silence mmconfig printk
x86, msr: fix NULL pointer deref due to msr_open on nonexistent CPUs
...
If a kernel thread is preempted in single-cpu mode right after the NOP (nop
about to be turned into a lock prefix), then we CPU hotplug a CPU, and then the
thread is scheduled back again, a SMP-unsafe atomic operation will be used on
shared SMP variables, leading to corruption. No corruption would happen in the
reverse case : going from SMP to UP is ok because we split a bit instruction
into tiny pieces, which does not present this condition.
Changing the 0x90 (single-byte nop) currently used into a 0x3E DS segment
override prefix should fix this issue. Since the default of the atomic
instructions is to use the DS segment anyway, it should not affect the
behavior.
The exception to this are references that use ESP/RSP and EBP/RBP as
the base register (they will use the SS segment), however, in Linux
(a) DS == SS at all times, and (b) we do not distinguish between
segment violations reported as #SS as opposed to #GP, so there is no
need to disassemble the instruction to figure out the suitable segment.
This patch assumes that the 0x3E prefix will leave atomic operations as-is (thus
assuming they normally touch data in the DS segment). Since there seem to be no
obvious ill-use of other segment override prefixes for atomic operations, it
should be safe. It can be verified with a quick
grep -r LOCK_PREFIX include/asm-x86/
grep -A 1 -r LOCK_PREFIX arch/x86/
Taken from
This source :
AMD64 Architecture Programmer's Manual Volume 3: General-Purpose and System
Instructions
States
"Instructions that Reference a Non-Stack Segment—If an instruction encoding
references any base register other than rBP or rSP, or if an instruction
contains an immediate offset, the default segment is the data segment (DS).
These instructions can use the segment-override prefix to select one of the
non-default segments, as shown in Table 1-5."
Therefore, forcing the DS segment on the atomic operations, which already use
the DS segment, should not change.
This source :
http://wiki.osdev.org/X86_Instruction_Encoding
States
"In 64-bit the CS, SS, DS and ES segment overrides are ignored."
Confirmed by "AMD 64-Bit Technology" A.7
http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/white_papers_and_tech_docs/x86-64_overview.pdf
"In 64-bit mode, the DS, ES, SS and CS segment-override prefixes have no effect.
These four prefixes are no longer treated as segment-override prefixes in the
context of multipleprefix rules. Instead, they are treated as null prefixes."
This patch applies to 2.6.27-rc2, but would also have to be applied to earlier
kernels (2.6.26, 2.6.25, ...).
Performance impact of the fix : tests done on "xaddq" and "xaddl" shows it
actually improves performances on Intel Xeon, AMD64, Pentium M. It does not
change the performance on Pentium II, Pentium 3 and Pentium 4.
Xeon E5405 2.0GHz :
NR_TESTS 10000000
test empty cycles : 162207948
test test 1-byte nop xadd cycles : 170755422
test test DS override prefix xadd cycles : 170000118 *
test test LOCK xadd cycles : 472012134
AMD64 2.0GHz :
NR_TESTS 10000000
test empty cycles : 146674549
test test 1-byte nop xadd cycles : 150273860
test test DS override prefix xadd cycles : 149982382 *
test test LOCK xadd cycles : 270000690
Pentium 4 3.0GHz
NR_TESTS 10000000
test empty cycles : 290001195
test test 1-byte nop xadd cycles : 310000560
test test DS override prefix xadd cycles : 310000575 *
test test LOCK xadd cycles : 1050103740
Pentium M 2.0GHz
NR_TESTS 10000000
test empty cycles : 180000523
test test 1-byte nop xadd cycles : 320000345
test test DS override prefix xadd cycles : 310000374 *
test test LOCK xadd cycles : 480000357
Pentium 3 550MHz
NR_TESTS 10000000
test empty cycles : 510000231
test test 1-byte nop xadd cycles : 620000128
test test DS override prefix xadd cycles : 620000110 *
test test LOCK xadd cycles : 800000088
Pentium II 350MHz
NR_TESTS 10000000
test empty cycles : 200833494
test test 1-byte nop xadd cycles : 340000130
test test DS override prefix xadd cycles : 340000126 *
test test LOCK xadd cycles : 530000078
Speed test modules can be found at
http://ltt.polymtl.ca/svn/trunk/tests/kernel/test-prefix-speed-32.chttp://ltt.polymtl.ca/svn/trunk/tests/kernel/test-prefix-speed.c
Macro-benchmarks
2.0GHz E5405 Core 2 dual Quad-Core Xeon
Summary
* replace smp lock prefixes with DS segment selector prefixes
no lock prefix (s) with lock prefix (s) Speedup
make -j1 kernel/ 33.94 +/- 0.07 34.91 +/- 0.27 2.8 %
hackbench 50 2.99 +/- 0.01 3.74 +/- 0.01 25.1 %
* replace smp lock prefixes with 0x90 nops
no lock prefix (s) with lock prefix (s) Speedup
make -j1 kernel/ 34.16 +/- 0.32 34.91 +/- 0.27 2.2 %
hackbench 50 3.00 +/- 0.01 3.74 +/- 0.01 24.7 %
Detail :
1 CPU, replace smp lock prefixes with DS segment selector prefixes
make -j1 kernel/
real 0m34.067s
user 0m30.630s
sys 0m2.980s
real 0m33.867s
user 0m30.582s
sys 0m3.024s
real 0m33.939s
user 0m30.738s
sys 0m2.876s
real 0m33.913s
user 0m30.806s
sys 0m2.808s
avg : 33.94s
std. dev. : 0.07s
hackbench 50
Time: 2.978
Time: 2.982
Time: 3.010
Time: 2.984
Time: 2.982
avg : 2.99
std. dev. : 0.01
1 CPU, noreplace-smp
make -j1 kernel/
real 0m35.326s
user 0m30.630s
sys 0m3.260s
real 0m34.325s
user 0m30.802s
sys 0m3.084s
real 0m35.568s
user 0m30.722s
sys 0m3.168s
real 0m34.435s
user 0m30.886s
sys 0m2.996s
avg.: 34.91s
std. dev. : 0.27s
hackbench 50
Time: 3.733
Time: 3.750
Time: 3.761
Time: 3.737
Time: 3.741
avg : 3.74
std. dev. : 0.01
1 CPU, replace smp lock prefixes with 0x90 nops
make -j1 kernel/
real 0m34.139s
user 0m30.782s
sys 0m2.820s
real 0m34.010s
user 0m30.630s
sys 0m2.976s
real 0m34.777s
user 0m30.658s
sys 0m2.916s
real 0m33.924s
user 0m30.634s
sys 0m2.924s
real 0m33.962s
user 0m30.774s
sys 0m2.800s
real 0m34.141s
user 0m30.770s
sys 0m2.828s
avg : 34.16
std. dev. : 0.32
hackbench 50
Time: 2.999
Time: 2.994
Time: 3.004
Time: 2.991
Time: 2.988
avg : 3.00
std. dev. : 0.01
I did more runs (20 runs of each) to compare the nop case to the DS
prefix case. Results in seconds. They actually does not seems to show a
significant difference.
NOP
34.155
33.955
34.012
35.299
35.679
34.141
33.995
35.016
34.254
33.957
33.957
34.008
35.013
34.494
33.893
34.295
34.314
34.854
33.991
34.132
DS
34.080
34.304
34.374
35.095
34.291
34.135
33.940
34.208
35.276
34.288
33.861
33.898
34.610
34.709
33.851
34.256
35.161
34.283
33.865
35.078
Used http://www.graphpad.com/quickcalcs/ttest1.cfm?Format=C to do the
T-test (yeah, I'm lazy) :
Group Group One (DS prefix) Group Two (nops)
Mean 34.37815 34.37070
SD 0.46108 0.51905
SEM 0.10310 0.11606
N 20 20
P value and statistical significance:
The two-tailed P value equals 0.9620
By conventional criteria, this difference is considered to be not statistically significant.
Confidence interval:
The mean of Group One minus Group Two equals 0.00745
95% confidence interval of this difference: From -0.30682 to 0.32172
Intermediate values used in calculations:
t = 0.0480
df = 38
standard error of difference = 0.155
So, unless these calculus are completely bogus, the difference between the nop
and the DS case seems not to be statistically significant.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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