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[PATCH] cpufreq: x86: Disable interrupts during MSRs reading

From Doug Smythies <doug.smythies@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject [PATCH] cpufreq: x86: Disable interrupts during MSRs reading
Date 2017-08-08 23:20 +0200
Message-ID <uck4W-5Pv-19@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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According to Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures SDM, Volume 3,
Chapter 14.2, "Software needs to exercise care to avoid delays
between the two RDMSRs (for example interrupts)".

So, disable interrupts during reading MSRs IA32_APERF and IA32_MPERF.

See also:
commit 4ab60c3f32c721e46217e762bcd3e55a8f659c04
cpufreq: intel_pstate: Disable interrupts during MSRs reading

Signed-off-by: Doug Smythies <dsmythies@telus.net>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/aperfmperf.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/aperfmperf.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/aperfmperf.c
index 7cf7c70..0ee8332 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/aperfmperf.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/aperfmperf.c
@@ -40,13 +40,16 @@ static void aperfmperf_snapshot_khz(void *dummy)
 	struct aperfmperf_sample *s = this_cpu_ptr(&samples);
 	ktime_t now = ktime_get();
 	s64 time_delta = ktime_ms_delta(now, s->time);
+	unsigned long flags;
 
 	/* Don't bother re-computing within the cache threshold time. */
 	if (time_delta < APERFMPERF_CACHE_THRESHOLD_MS)
 		return;
 
+	local_irq_save(flags);
 	rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_APERF, aperf);
 	rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_MPERF, mperf);
+	local_irq_restore(flags);
 
 	aperf_delta = aperf - s->aperf;
 	mperf_delta = mperf - s->mperf;
-- 
2.7.4

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[PATCH] cpufreq: x86: Disable interrupts during MSRs reading Doug Smythies <doug.smythies@gmail.com> - 2017-08-08 23:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] cpufreq: x86: Disable interrupts during MSRs reading Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> - 2017-08-10 07:10 +0200

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