[Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86/Intel: work around Xeon 7400 series erratum AAI65

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

Linux commit 40e2d7f9b5dae048789c64672bf3027fbb663ffa ("x86 idle:
Repair large-server 50-watt idle-power regression") tells us that this
applie snot just to the named Xen 7400 series, but also NHM-EX and
WSM-EX; sadly Intel's documentation is so badly searchable that I
wasn't able to locate the respective errata (and hence can't quote
their numbers here).

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>

--- a/xen/arch/x86/acpi/cpu_idle.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/acpi/cpu_idle.c
@@ -335,6 +335,9 @@ void mwait_idle_with_hints(unsigned int 
     unsigned int cpu = smp_processor_id();
     s_time_t expires = per_cpu(timer_deadline, cpu);
 
+    if ( boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_CLFLUSH_MONITOR) )
+        clflush((void *)&mwait_wakeup(cpu));
+
     __monitor((void *)&mwait_wakeup(cpu), 0, 0);
     smp_mb();
 
--- a/xen/arch/x86/cpu/intel.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/cpu/intel.c
@@ -147,6 +147,9 @@ void __devinit early_intel_workaround(st
 /*
  * P4 Xeon errata 037 workaround.
  * Hardware prefetcher may cause stale data to be loaded into the cache.
+ *
+ * Xeon 7400 erratum AAI65 (and further newer Xeons)
+ * MONITOR/MWAIT may have excessive false wakeups
  */
 static void __devinit Intel_errata_workarounds(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
 {
@@ -161,6 +164,10 @@ static void __devinit Intel_errata_worka
                        wrmsr (MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE, lo, hi);
                }
        }
+
+       if (c->x86 == 6 && cpu_has_clflush &&
+           (c->x86_model == 29 || c->x86_model == 46 || c->x86_model == 47))
+               set_bit(X86_FEATURE_CLFLUSH_MONITOR, c->x86_capability);
 }
 
 
--- a/xen/include/asm-x86/cpufeature.h
+++ b/xen/include/asm-x86/cpufeature.h
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@
 #define X86_FEATURE_TSC_RELIABLE (3*32+12) /* TSC is known to be reliable */
 #define X86_FEATURE_XTOPOLOGY    (3*32+13) /* cpu topology enum extensions */
 #define X86_FEATURE_CPUID_FAULTING (3*32+14) /* cpuid faulting */
+#define X86_FEATURE_CLFLUSH_MONITOR (3*32+15) /* clflush reqd with monitor */
 
 /* Intel-defined CPU features, CPUID level 0x00000001 (ecx), word 4 */
 #define X86_FEATURE_XMM3       (4*32+ 0) /* Streaming SIMD Extensions-3 */

Attachment: x86-monitor-clflush-workaround.patch
Description: Text document

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