This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86 / CPU: Avoid unnecessary IPIs in arch_freq_get_on_cpu()
to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
x86-cpu-avoid-unnecessary-ipis-in-arch_freq_get_on_cpu.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From b29c6ef7bb1257853c1e31616d84f55e561cf631 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 02:15:39 +0100
Subject: x86 / CPU: Avoid unnecessary IPIs in arch_freq_get_on_cpu()
From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
commit b29c6ef7bb1257853c1e31616d84f55e561cf631 upstream.
Even though aperfmperf_snapshot_khz() caches the samples.khz value to
return if called again in a sufficiently short time, its caller,
arch_freq_get_on_cpu(), still uses smp_call_function_single() to run it
which may allow user space to trigger an IPI storm by reading from the
scaling_cur_freq cpufreq sysfs file in a tight loop.
To avoid that, move the decision on whether or not to return the cached
samples.khz value to arch_freq_get_on_cpu().
This change was part of commit 941f5f0f6ef5 ("x86: CPU: Fix up "cpu MHz"
in /proc/cpuinfo"), but it was not the reason for the revert and it
remains applicable.
Fixes: 4815d3c56d1e (cpufreq: x86: Make scaling_cur_freq behave more as expected)
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: WANG Chao <chao.wang@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/aperfmperf.c | 11 +++++++----
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/aperfmperf.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/aperfmperf.c
@@ -42,10 +42,6 @@ static void aperfmperf_snapshot_khz(void
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);
@@ -74,6 +70,7 @@ static void aperfmperf_snapshot_khz(void
unsigned int arch_freq_get_on_cpu(int cpu)
{
+ s64 time_delta;
unsigned int khz;
if (!cpu_khz)
@@ -82,6 +79,12 @@ unsigned int arch_freq_get_on_cpu(int cp
if (!static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_APERFMPERF))
return 0;
+ /* Don't bother re-computing within the cache threshold time. */
+ time_delta = ktime_ms_delta(ktime_get(), per_cpu(samples.time, cpu));
+ khz = per_cpu(samples.khz, cpu);
+ if (khz && time_delta < APERFMPERF_CACHE_THRESHOLD_MS)
+ return khz;
+
smp_call_function_single(cpu, aperfmperf_snapshot_khz, NULL, 1);
khz = per_cpu(samples.khz, cpu);
if (khz)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.14/x86-cpu-always-show-current-cpu-frequency-in-proc-cpuinfo.patch
queue-4.14/x86-cpu-avoid-unnecessary-ipis-in-arch_freq_get_on_cpu.patch