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authorMikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>2008-06-15 02:19:56 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-06-19 10:08:47 +0200
commitdf17b1d990fc214f033c5588e58216ec941591e0 (patch)
tree37dff99a5f2a2630931bb0d2d18131f33c2bb66d /arch/x86
parent75118a82e21cafb4a82b53bb85d1c7689787e046 (diff)
x86, 32-bit: fix boot failure on TSC-less processors
Booting 2.6.26-rc6 on my 486 DX/4 fails with a "BUG: Int 6" (invalid opcode) and a kernel halt immediately after the kernel has been uncompressed. The BUG shows EIP pointing to an rdtsc instruction in native_read_tsc(), invoked from native_sched_clock(). (This error occurs so early that not even the serial console can capture it.) A bisection showed that this bug first occurs in 2.6.26-rc3-git7, via commit 9ccc906c97e34fd91dc6aaf5b69b52d824386910: >x86: distangle user disabled TSC from unstable > >tsc_enabled is set to 0 from the command line switch "notsc" and from >the mark_tsc_unstable code. Seperate those functionalities and replace >tsc_enable with tsc_disable. This makes also the native_sched_clock() >decision when to use TSC understandable. > >Preparatory patch to solve the sched_clock() issue on 32 bit. > >Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> The core reason for this bug is that native_sched_clock() gets called before tsc_init(). Before the commit above, tsc_32.c used a "tsc_enabled" variable which defaulted to 0 == disabled, and which only got enabled late in tsc_init(). Thus early calls to native_sched_clock() would skip the TSC and use jiffies instead. After the commit above, tsc_32.c uses a "tsc_disabled" variable which defaults to 0, meaning that the TSC is Ok to use. Early calls to native_sched_clock() now erroneously try to use the TSC on !cpu_has_tsc processors, leading to invalid opcode exceptions. My proposed fix is to initialise tsc_disabled to a "soft disabled" state distinct from the hard disabled state set up by the "notsc" kernel option. This fixes the native_sched_clock() problem. It also allows tsc_init() to be simplified: instead of setting tsc_disabled = 1 on every error return, we just set tsc_disabled = 0 once when all checks have succeeded. I've verified that this lets my 486 boot again. I've also verified that a Core2 machine still uses the TSC as clocksource after the patch. Signed-off-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/tsc_32.c18
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc_32.c
index 068759db63d..65b70637ad9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc_32.c
@@ -14,7 +14,10 @@
#include "mach_timer.h"
-static int tsc_disabled;
+/* native_sched_clock() is called before tsc_init(), so
+ we must start with the TSC soft disabled to prevent
+ erroneous rdtsc usage on !cpu_has_tsc processors */
+static int tsc_disabled = -1;
/*
* On some systems the TSC frequency does not
@@ -402,25 +405,20 @@ void __init tsc_init(void)
{
int cpu;
- if (!cpu_has_tsc || tsc_disabled) {
- /* Disable the TSC in case of !cpu_has_tsc */
- tsc_disabled = 1;
+ if (!cpu_has_tsc || tsc_disabled > 0)
return;
- }
cpu_khz = calculate_cpu_khz();
tsc_khz = cpu_khz;
if (!cpu_khz) {
mark_tsc_unstable("could not calculate TSC khz");
- /*
- * We need to disable the TSC completely in this case
- * to prevent sched_clock() from using it.
- */
- tsc_disabled = 1;
return;
}
+ /* now allow native_sched_clock() to use rdtsc */
+ tsc_disabled = 0;
+
printk("Detected %lu.%03lu MHz processor.\n",
(unsigned long)cpu_khz / 1000,
(unsigned long)cpu_khz % 1000);