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| author | Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> | 2022-10-03 10:10:18 -0300 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2022-10-07 09:16:55 +0200 |
| commit | 3ee9e9a5af0711bf0848cddb070aae72777318c6 (patch) | |
| tree | a556689cd22f132943becbf52f249127e8208a34 /arch/x86/include | |
| parent | 97bc52c14a9372260d5d9bc0272129b29b3eda39 (diff) | |
intel_idle: Disable IBRS during long idle
commit bf5835bcdb9635c97f85120dba9bfa21e111130f upstream.
Having IBRS enabled while the SMT sibling is idle unnecessarily slows
down the running sibling. OTOH, disabling IBRS around idle takes two
MSR writes, which will increase the idle latency.
Therefore, only disable IBRS around deeper idle states. Shallow idle
states are bounded by the tick in duration, since NOHZ is not allowed
for them by virtue of their short target residency.
Only do this for mwait-driven idle, since that keeps interrupts disabled
across idle, which makes disabling IBRS vs IRQ-entry a non-issue.
Note: C6 is a random threshold, most importantly C1 probably shouldn't
disable IBRS, benchmarking needed.
Suggested-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
[cascardo: no CPUIDLE_FLAG_IRQ_ENABLE]
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
[cascardo: context adjustments]
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h index 2de7c08fa36e..0b1630c2c46b 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h @@ -299,6 +299,7 @@ static inline void indirect_branch_prediction_barrier(void) /* The Intel SPEC CTRL MSR base value cache */ extern u64 x86_spec_ctrl_base; extern void write_spec_ctrl_current(u64 val, bool force); +extern u64 spec_ctrl_current(void); /* * With retpoline, we must use IBRS to restrict branch prediction |