linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fix TSC issues on (some) AMD Ryzen based systems

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Message-ID: <74929a77-6a21-d13e-9a65-5a0753009ddf@molgen.mpg.de>
Date:   Tue, 29 Jan 2019 20:33:56 +0100
From:   Paul Menzel <pmenzel@...gen.mpg.de>
To:     Jan H. Schönherr <jan@...nhrr.de>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, x86@...nel.org
Cc:     Thomas Lendacky <Thomas.Lendacky@....com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fix TSC issues on (some) AMD Ryzen based systems

Dear Jan,


Thank you for adding me to the CC list.


Am 29.01.19 um 11:23 schrieb Jan H. Schönherr:
> My newly acquired AMD Ryzen Threadripper based system seems to have
> some TSC quirks, which go away once the system is up.
> 
> Given the discussion in https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/1/28/1356
> I don't seem to be the only one, and it does not seem to be
> Threadripper specific.
> 
> The first patch addresses presumably SMI interruptions, that occur
> on my system at a 60 Hz frequency. They take too long, making the
> existing code fail. The patch makes that code more resilient.
> (These interruptions go away at some point during boot; also proven
> by the fact, that I don't have any TSC issues, when kexecing into
> a new kernel.)
> 
> The second patch prevents TSC going unstable when resuming from S3.
> This may have a similar source, but is certainly more weird: the
> TSC is observed to go backwards on CPU0 by about 200 to 500 cycles
> compared to other CPUs every once in a while, as long as its sibling
> (CPU16 in my case) hasn't been resumed yet. (I did some experiments
> with CPU hotplug before and after suspend, but apart from reproducing
> the issue and verifying the "fix", I got nowhere.)
> 
> The patches are against v4.20.
> 
> Jan H. Schönherr (2):
>    x86/tsc: Allow quick PIT calibration despite interruptions
>    cpu/hotplug: Unfreeze sibling CPU first on resume from S3
> 
>   arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c | 80 +++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
>   kernel/cpu.c          | 34 ++++++++++++------
>   2 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)

I successfully tested both applied on Linus’ current master branch
(v5.0-rc4-1-g4aa9fc2a435a).

> [    0.000000] DMI: HP HP EliteDesk 705 G4 MT/83E7, BIOS Q06 Ver. 02.04.01 09/14/2018
> [    0.000000] tsc: Fast TSC calibration using PIT
> [    0.000000] tsc: Detected 3616.864 MHz processor


Kind regards,

Paul