From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@linutronix.de>,
John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>, Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>,
Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>,
Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>,
Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>,
Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>,
x86@kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Subject: [patch 20/48] x86/apic: Enable TSC coupled programming mode
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2026 17:36:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260224163430.076565985@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20260224163022.795809588@kernel.org
The TSC deadline timer is directly coupled to the TSC and setting the next
deadline is tedious as the clockevents core code converts the
CLOCK_MONOTONIC based absolute expiry time to a relative expiry by reading
the current time from the TSC. It converts that delta to cycles and hands
the result to lapic_next_deadline(), which then has read to the TSC and add
the delta to program the timer.
The core code now supports coupled clock event devices and can provide the
expiry time in TSC cycles directly without reading the TSC at all.
This obviouly works only when the TSC is the current clocksource, but
that's the default for all modern CPUs which implement the TSC deadline
timer. If the TSC is not the current clocksource (e.g. early boot) then the
core code falls back to the relative set_next_event() callback as before.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
---
arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/x86/include/asm/clock_inlined.h | 8 ++++++++
arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c | 12 ++++++------
arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c | 3 ++-
4 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -164,6 +164,7 @@ config X86
select EDAC_SUPPORT
select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST if X86_64 || (X86_32 && X86_LOCAL_APIC)
select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST_IDLE if GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST
+ select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_COUPLED_INLINE if X86_64
select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_MIN_ADJUST
select GENERIC_CMOS_UPDATE
select GENERIC_CPU_AUTOPROBE
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/clock_inlined.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/clock_inlined.h
@@ -11,4 +11,12 @@ static __always_inline u64 arch_inlined_
return (u64)rdtsc_ordered();
}
+struct clock_event_device;
+
+static __always_inline void
+arch_inlined_clockevent_set_next_coupled(u64 cycles, struct clock_event_device *evt)
+{
+ native_wrmsrq(MSR_IA32_TSC_DEADLINE, cycles);
+}
+
#endif
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
@@ -591,14 +591,14 @@ static void setup_APIC_timer(void)
if (this_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_TSC_DEADLINE_TIMER)) {
levt->name = "lapic-deadline";
- levt->features &= ~(CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_PERIODIC |
- CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_DUMMY);
+ levt->features &= ~(CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_PERIODIC | CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_DUMMY);
+ levt->features |= CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_CLOCKSOURCE_COUPLED;
+ levt->cs_id = CSID_X86_TSC;
levt->set_next_event = lapic_next_deadline;
- clockevents_config_and_register(levt,
- tsc_khz * (1000 / TSC_DIVISOR),
- 0xF, ~0UL);
- } else
+ clockevents_config_and_register(levt, tsc_khz * (1000 / TSC_DIVISOR), 0xF, ~0UL);
+ } else {
clockevents_register_device(levt);
+ }
apic_update_vector(smp_processor_id(), LOCAL_TIMER_VECTOR, true);
}
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
@@ -1203,7 +1203,8 @@ static struct clocksource clocksource_ts
CLOCK_SOURCE_VALID_FOR_HRES |
CLOCK_SOURCE_CAN_INLINE_READ |
CLOCK_SOURCE_MUST_VERIFY |
- CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU,
+ CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU |
+ CLOCK_SOURCE_HAS_COUPLED_CLOCK_EVENT,
.id = CSID_X86_TSC,
.vdso_clock_mode = VDSO_CLOCKMODE_TSC,
.enable = tsc_cs_enable,
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-02-24 16:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 128+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-24 16:35 [patch 00/48] hrtimer,sched: General optimizations and hrtick enablement Thomas Gleixner
2026-02-24 16:35 ` [patch 01/48] sched/eevdf: Fix HRTICK duration Thomas Gleixner
2026-02-28 15:37 ` [tip: sched/hrtick] " tip-bot2 for Peter Zijlstra
2026-03-20 14:59 ` Shrikanth Hegde
2026-03-20 15:38 ` Peter Zijlstra
2026-03-20 15:40 ` Shrikanth Hegde
2026-02-24 16:35 ` [patch 02/48] sched/fair: Simplify hrtick_update() Thomas Gleixner
2026-02-28 15:37 ` [tip: sched/hrtick] " tip-bot2 for Peter Zijlstra (Intel)
2026-02-24 16:35 ` [patch 03/48] sched/fair: Make hrtick resched hard Thomas Gleixner
2026-02-28 15:37 ` [tip: sched/hrtick] " tip-bot2 for Peter Zijlstra (Intel)
2026-02-24 16:35 ` [patch 04/48] sched: Avoid ktime_get() indirection Thomas Gleixner
2026-02-28 15:37 ` [tip: sched/hrtick] " tip-bot2 for Thomas Gleixner
2026-02-24 16:35 ` [patch 05/48] hrtimer: Avoid pointless reprogramming in __hrtimer_start_range_ns() Thomas Gleixner
2026-02-28 15:36 ` [tip: sched/hrtick] " tip-bot2 for Peter Zijlstra
2026-02-24 16:35 ` [patch 06/48] hrtimer: Provide a static branch based hrtimer_hres_enabled() Thomas Gleixner
2026-02-28 15:36 ` [tip: sched/hrtick] " tip-bot2 for Thomas Gleixner
2026-02-24 16:35 ` [patch 07/48] sched: Use hrtimer_highres_enabled() Thomas Gleixner
2026-02-28 15:36 ` [tip: sched/hrtick] " tip-bot2 for Thomas Gleixner
2026-02-24 16:35 ` [patch 08/48] sched: Optimize hrtimer handling Thomas Gleixner
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2026-02-24 16:35 ` [patch 09/48] sched/hrtick: Avoid tiny hrtick rearms Thomas Gleixner
2026-02-28 15:36 ` [tip: sched/hrtick] " tip-bot2 for Thomas Gleixner
2026-02-24 16:36 ` [patch 10/48] hrtimer: Provide LAZY_REARM mode Thomas Gleixner
2026-02-28 15:36 ` [tip: sched/hrtick] " tip-bot2 for Peter Zijlstra
2026-02-24 16:36 ` [patch 11/48] sched/hrtick: Mark hrtick timer LAZY_REARM Thomas Gleixner
2026-02-28 15:36 ` [tip: sched/hrtick] " tip-bot2 for Peter Zijlstra
2026-02-24 16:36 ` [patch 12/48] tick/sched: Avoid hrtimer_cancel/start() sequence Thomas Gleixner
2026-02-28 15:36 ` [tip: sched/hrtick] " tip-bot2 for Thomas Gleixner
2026-02-24 16:36 ` [patch 13/48] clockevents: Remove redundant CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_KTIME Thomas Gleixner
2026-02-28 15:36 ` [tip: sched/hrtick] " tip-bot2 for Thomas Gleixner
2026-02-24 16:36 ` [patch 14/48] timekeeping: Allow inlining clocksource::read() Thomas Gleixner
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2026-02-24 16:36 ` [patch 15/48] x86: Inline TSC reads in timekeeping Thomas Gleixner
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2026-02-24 16:36 ` [patch 16/48] x86/apic: Remove pointless fence in lapic_next_deadline() Thomas Gleixner
2026-02-28 15:36 ` [tip: sched/hrtick] " tip-bot2 for Thomas Gleixner
2026-02-24 16:36 ` [patch 17/48] x86/apic: Avoid the PVOPS indirection for the TSC deadline timer Thomas Gleixner
2026-02-28 15:36 ` [tip: sched/hrtick] " tip-bot2 for Thomas Gleixner
2026-02-24 16:36 ` [patch 18/48] timekeeping: Provide infrastructure for coupled clockevents Thomas Gleixner
2026-02-28 15:36 ` [tip: sched/hrtick] " tip-bot2 for Thomas Gleixner
2026-02-24 16:36 ` [patch 19/48] clockevents: Provide support for clocksource coupled comparators Thomas Gleixner
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2026-03-03 18:44 ` [patch 19/48] " Michael Kelley
2026-03-03 19:14 ` Peter Zijlstra
2026-03-23 4:24 ` Michael Kelley
2026-03-23 21:36 ` Thomas Gleixner
2026-03-24 0:22 ` mhklkml
2026-03-24 3:37 ` Michael Kelley
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2026-02-24 16:36 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2026-02-28 15:36 ` [tip: sched/hrtick] x86/apic: Enable TSC coupled programming mode tip-bot2 for Thomas Gleixner
2026-03-03 1:29 ` [patch 20/48] " Nathan Chancellor
2026-03-03 14:37 ` Thomas Gleixner
2026-03-03 14:45 ` Thomas Gleixner
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2026-03-03 20:21 ` Thomas Gleixner
2026-03-03 21:30 ` Nathan Chancellor
2026-03-04 18:40 ` Thomas Gleixner
2026-03-04 18:49 ` [patch 20/48] clocksource: Update clocksource::freq_khz on registration Thomas Gleixner
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2026-03-03 21:56 ` [PATCH] Subject: timekeeping: Initialize the coupled clocksource conversion completely Thomas Gleixner
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