From e5fd47bfab2df0c2184cc0bf4245d8e1bb7724fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:02:02 -0500 Subject: xen/pm_idle: Make pm_idle be default_idle under Xen. The idea behind commit d91ee5863b71 ("cpuidle: replace xen access to x86 pm_idle and default_idle") was to have one call - disable_cpuidle() which would make pm_idle not be molested by other code. It disallows cpuidle_idle_call to be set to pm_idle (which is excellent). But in the select_idle_routine() and idle_setup(), the pm_idle can still be set to either: amd_e400_idle, mwait_idle or default_idle. This depends on some CPU flags (MWAIT) and in AMD case on the type of CPU. In case of mwait_idle we can hit some instances where the hypervisor (Amazon EC2 specifically) sets the MWAIT and we get: Brought up 2 CPUs invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 3.1.0-0.rc6.git0.3.fc16.x86_64 #1 RIP: e030:[] [] mwait_idle+0x6f/0xb4 ... Call Trace: [] cpu_idle+0xae/0xe8 [] cpu_bringup_and_idle+0xe/0x10 RIP [] mwait_idle+0x6f/0xb4 RSP In the case of amd_e400_idle we don't get so spectacular crashes, but we do end up making an MSR which is trapped in the hypervisor, and then follow it up with a yield hypercall. Meaning we end up going to hypervisor twice instead of just once. The previous behavior before v3.0 was that pm_idle was set to default_idle regardless of select_idle_routine/idle_setup. We want to do that, but only for one specific case: Xen. This patch does that. Fixes RH BZ #739499 and Ubuntu #881076 Reported-by: Stefan Bader Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- arch/x86/include/asm/system.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/system.h') diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/system.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/system.h index c2ff2a1d845e..2d2f01ce6dcb 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/system.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/system.h @@ -401,6 +401,7 @@ extern unsigned long arch_align_stack(unsigned long sp); extern void free_init_pages(char *what, unsigned long begin, unsigned long end); void default_idle(void); +bool set_pm_idle_to_default(void); void stop_this_cpu(void *dummy); -- cgit