releases/2.6.23.9/x86-disable-preemption-in-delay_tsc.patch

From stable-bounces@linux.kernel.org Wed Nov 14 17:08:53 2007
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:00:41 -0800
Subject: x86: disable preemption in delay_tsc()
To: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: mitov@issp.bas.bg, ak@suse.de, stable@kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mingo@elte.hu
Message-ID: <200711150100.lAF10fUR002915@imap1.linux-foundation.org>


From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

patch 35d5d08a085c56f153458c3f5d8ce24123617faf in mainline.

Marin Mitov points out that delay_tsc() can misbehave if it is preempted and
rescheduled on a different CPU which has a skewed TSC.  Fix it by disabling
preemption.

(I assume that the worst-case behaviour here is a stall of 2^32 cycles)

Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Marin Mitov <mitov@issp.bas.bg>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
 arch/i386/lib/delay.c   |    3 +++
 arch/x86_64/lib/delay.c |   11 +++++++----
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/i386/lib/delay.c
+++ b/arch/i386/lib/delay.c
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/sched.h>
+#include <linux/preempt.h>
 #include <linux/delay.h>
 
 #include <asm/processor.h>
@@ -42,11 +43,13 @@ static void delay_tsc(unsigned long loop
 {
 	unsigned long bclock, now;
 
+	preempt_disable();		/* TSC's are per-cpu */
 	rdtscl(bclock);
 	do {
 		rep_nop();
 		rdtscl(now);
 	} while ((now-bclock) < loops);
+	preempt_enable();
 }
 
 /*
--- a/arch/x86_64/lib/delay.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/lib/delay.c
@@ -10,7 +10,9 @@
 
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/sched.h>
+#include <linux/preempt.h>
 #include <linux/delay.h>
+
 #include <asm/delay.h>
 #include <asm/msr.h>
 
@@ -27,14 +29,15 @@ int read_current_timer(unsigned long *ti
 void __delay(unsigned long loops)
 {
 	unsigned bclock, now;
-	
+
+	preempt_disable();		/* TSC's are pre-cpu */
 	rdtscl(bclock);
-	do
-	{
+	do {
 		rep_nop(); 
 		rdtscl(now);
 	}
-	while((now-bclock) < loops);
+	while ((now-bclock) < loops);
+	preempt_enable();
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__delay);