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Date:	Tue, 01 Mar 2016 17:11:13 -0800
From:	"Christopher Hall" <christopher.s.hall@...el.com>
To:	tglx@...utronix.de, luto@...capital.net, john.stultz@...aro.org,
	"Christopher S. Hall" <christopher.s.hall@...el.com>
Cc:	hpa@...or.com, x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	peterz@...radead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 6/8] x86: tsc: Always Running Timer (ART) correlated
 clocksource

Andy,

On Mon, 29 Feb 2016 06:33:47 -0800, Christopher S. Hall  
<christopher.s.hall@...el.com> wrote:

Do you have any comment on this? John needs your ACK. Thanks.

Chris

> *** Commit message below:
>
> On modern Intel systems TSC is derived from the new Always Running Timer
> (ART). ART can be captured simultaneous to the capture of
> audio and network device clocks, allowing a correlation between timebases
> to be constructed. Upon capture, the driver converts the captured ART
> value to the appropriate system clock using the correlated clocksource
> mechanism.
>
> On systems that support ART a new CPUID leaf (0x15) returns parameters
> “m” and “n” such that:
>
> TSC_value = (ART_value * m) / n + k [n >= 1]
>
> [k is an offset that can adjusted by a privileged agent. The
> IA32_TSC_ADJUST MSR is an example of an interface to adjust k.
> See 17.14.4 of the Intel SDM for more details]
>
> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> Signed-off-by: Christopher S. Hall <christopher.s.hall@...el.com>
> [jstultz: Tweaked to fix build issue, also reworked math for
> 64bit division on 32bit systems]
> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
> ---
>  arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h |  2 +-
>  arch/x86/include/asm/tsc.h        |  2 ++
>  arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c             | 58  
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h  
> b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
> index 7ad8c94..ff557b4 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
> @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@
>  #define X86_FEATURE_P4		( 3*32+ 7) /* "" P4 */
>  #define X86_FEATURE_CONSTANT_TSC ( 3*32+ 8) /* TSC ticks at a constant  
> rate */
>  #define X86_FEATURE_UP		( 3*32+ 9) /* smp kernel running on up */
> -/* free, was #define X86_FEATURE_FXSAVE_LEAK ( 3*32+10) * "" FXSAVE  
> leaks FOP/FIP/FOP */
> +#define X86_FEATURE_ART		(3*32+10) /* Platform has always running timer  
> (ART) */
>  #define X86_FEATURE_ARCH_PERFMON ( 3*32+11) /* Intel Architectural  
> PerfMon */
>  #define X86_FEATURE_PEBS	( 3*32+12) /* Precise-Event Based Sampling */
>  #define X86_FEATURE_BTS		( 3*32+13) /* Branch Trace Store */
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/tsc.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/tsc.h
> index 6d7c547..174c421 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/tsc.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/tsc.h
> @@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ static inline cycles_t get_cycles(void)
>  	return rdtsc();
>  }
> +extern struct system_counterval_t convert_art_to_tsc(cycle_t art);
> +
>  extern void tsc_init(void);
>  extern void mark_tsc_unstable(char *reason);
>  extern int unsynchronized_tsc(void);
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
> index 3d743da..a10cff1 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
> @@ -43,6 +43,11 @@ static DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(__use_tsc);
> int tsc_clocksource_reliable;
> +static u32 art_to_tsc_numerator;
> +static u32 art_to_tsc_denominator;
> +static u64 art_to_tsc_offset;
> +struct clocksource *art_related_clocksource;
> +
>  /*
>   * Use a ring-buffer like data structure, where a writer advances the  
> head by
>   * writing a new data entry and a reader advances the tail when it  
> observes a
> @@ -949,6 +954,36 @@ static struct notifier_block  
> time_cpufreq_notifier_block = {
>  	.notifier_call  = time_cpufreq_notifier
>  };
> +#define ART_CPUID_LEAF (0x15)
> +#define ART_MIN_DENOMINATOR (1)
> +
> +
> +/*
> + * If ART is present detect the numerator:denominator to convert to TSC
> + */
> +static void detect_art(void)
> +{
> +	unsigned int unused[2];
> +
> +	if (boot_cpu_data.cpuid_level < ART_CPUID_LEAF)
> +		return;
> +
> +	cpuid(ART_CPUID_LEAF, &art_to_tsc_denominator,
> +	      &art_to_tsc_numerator, unused, unused+1);
> +
> +	/* Don't enable ART in a VM, non-stop TSC required */
> +	if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_HYPERVISOR) ||
> +	    !boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_NONSTOP_TSC) ||
> +	    art_to_tsc_denominator < ART_MIN_DENOMINATOR)
> +		return;
> +
> +	if (rdmsrl_safe(MSR_IA32_TSC_ADJUST, &art_to_tsc_offset))
> +		return;
> +
> +	/* Make this sticky over multiple CPU init calls */
> +	setup_force_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_ART);
> +}
> +
>  static int __init cpufreq_tsc(void)
>  {
>  	if (!cpu_has_tsc)
> @@ -1071,6 +1106,25 @@ int unsynchronized_tsc(void)
>  	return 0;
>  }
> +/*
> + * Convert ART to TSC given numerator/denominator found in detect_art()
> + */
> +struct system_counterval_t convert_art_to_tsc(cycle_t art)
> +{
> +	u64 tmp, res, rem;
> +
> +	rem = do_div(art, art_to_tsc_denominator);
> +
> +	res = art * art_to_tsc_numerator;
> +	tmp = rem * art_to_tsc_numerator;
> +
> +	do_div(tmp, art_to_tsc_denominator);
> +	res += tmp + art_to_tsc_offset;
> +
> +	return (struct system_counterval_t) {.cs = art_related_clocksource,
> +			.cycles = res};
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(convert_art_to_tsc);
> static void tsc_refine_calibration_work(struct work_struct *work);
>  static DECLARE_DELAYED_WORK(tsc_irqwork, tsc_refine_calibration_work);
> @@ -1142,6 +1196,8 @@ static void tsc_refine_calibration_work(struct  
> work_struct *work)
>  		(unsigned long)tsc_khz % 1000);
> out:
> +	if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_ART))
> +		art_related_clocksource = &clocksource_tsc;
>  	clocksource_register_khz(&clocksource_tsc, tsc_khz);
>  }
> @@ -1235,6 +1291,8 @@ void __init tsc_init(void)
>  		mark_tsc_unstable("TSCs unsynchronized");
> 	check_system_tsc_reliable();
> +
> +	detect_art();
>  }
> #ifdef CONFIG_SMP

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