[PATCH 3.15 092/109] x86, tsc: Fix cpufreq lockup

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-26T19:23:29Z

From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

commit 3896c329df8092661dac80f55a8c3f60136fd61a upstream.

Mauro reported that his AMD X2 using the powernow-k8 cpufreq driver
locked up when doing cpu hotplug.

Because we called set_cyc2ns_scale() from the time_cpufreq_notifier()
unconditionally, it gets called multiple times for each freq change,
instead of only the once, when the tsc_khz value actually changes.

Because it gets called more than once, we run out of cyc2ns data slots
and stall, waiting for a free one, but because we're half way offline,
there's no consumers to free slots.

By placing the call inside the condition that actually changes tsc_khz
we avoid superfluous calls and avoid the problem.

Reported-by: Mauro <registosites@hotmail.com>
Tested-by: Mauro <registosites@hotmail.com>
Fixes: 20d1c86a5776 ("sched/clock, x86: Rewrite cyc2ns() to avoid the need to disable IRQs")
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Bin Gao <bin.gao@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
@@ -920,9 +920,9 @@ static int time_cpufreq_notifier(struct
tsc_khz = cpufreq_scale(tsc_khz_ref, ref_freq, freq->new);
if (!(freq->flags & CPUFREQ_CONST_LOOPS))
mark_tsc_unstable("cpufreq changes");
- }

- set_cyc2ns_scale(tsc_khz, freq->cpu);
+ set_cyc2ns_scale(tsc_khz, freq->cpu);
+ }

return 0;
}