From b1b5f65e53af770ede22c113e249de2f6fa53706 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Phil Carmody Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:34:15 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] calibrate: retry with wider bounds when converge seems to fail Systems with unmaskable interrupts such as SMIs may massively underestimate loops_per_jiffy, and fail to converge anywhere near the real value. A case seen on x86_64 was an initial estimate of 256<<12, which converged to 511<<12 where the real value should have been over 630<<12. This admitedly requires bypassing the TSC calibration (lpj_fine), and a failure to settle in the direct calibration too, but is physically possible. This failure does not depend on my previous calibration optimisation, but by luck is easy to fix with the optimisation in place with a trivial retry loop. In the context of the optimised converging method, as we can no longer trust the starting estimate, enlarge the search bounds exponentially so that the number of retries is logarithmically bounded. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: mention x86_64 SMIs in comment] Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Tested-by: Stephen Boyd Cc: Greg KH Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- init/calibrate.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/init/calibrate.c b/init/calibrate.c index f9000dfbe227..76ac9194cbc4 100644 --- a/init/calibrate.c +++ b/init/calibrate.c @@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ static unsigned long __cpuinit calibrate_delay_direct(void) {return 0;} static unsigned long __cpuinit calibrate_delay_converge(void) { /* First stage - slowly accelerate to find initial bounds */ - unsigned long lpj, ticks, loopadd, chop_limit; + unsigned long lpj, lpj_base, ticks, loopadd, loopadd_base, chop_limit; int trials = 0, band = 0, trial_in_band = 0; lpj = (1<<12); @@ -146,14 +146,18 @@ static unsigned long __cpuinit calibrate_delay_converge(void) * the largest likely undershoot. This defines our chop bounds. */ trials -= band; - loopadd = lpj * band; - lpj *= trials; - chop_limit = lpj >> (LPS_PREC + 1); + loopadd_base = lpj * band; + lpj_base = lpj * trials; + +recalibrate: + lpj = lpj_base; + loopadd = loopadd_base; /* * Do a binary approximation to get lpj set to * equal one clock (up to LPS_PREC bits) */ + chop_limit = lpj >> LPS_PREC; while (loopadd > chop_limit) { lpj += loopadd; ticks = jiffies; @@ -165,6 +169,16 @@ static unsigned long __cpuinit calibrate_delay_converge(void) lpj -= loopadd; loopadd >>= 1; } + /* + * If we incremented every single time possible, presume we've + * massively underestimated initially, and retry with a higher + * start, and larger range. (Only seen on x86_64, due to SMIs) + */ + if (lpj + loopadd * 2 == lpj_base + loopadd_base * 2) { + lpj_base = lpj; + loopadd_base <<= 2; + goto recalibrate; + } return lpj; }