linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.4 78/79] x86/asm: Fix MWAITX C-state hint value

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Date:   Wed, 16 Oct 2019 14:50:53 -0700
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Janakarajan Natarajan <Janakarajan.Natarajan@....com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
        Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>,
        Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@...cle.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.4 78/79] x86/asm: Fix MWAITX C-state hint value

From: Janakarajan Natarajan <Janakarajan.Natarajan@....com>

commit 454de1e7d970d6bc567686052329e4814842867c upstream.

As per "AMD64 Architecture Programmer's Manual Volume 3: General-Purpose
and System Instructions", MWAITX EAX[7:4]+1 specifies the optional hint
of the optimized C-state. For C0 state, EAX[7:4] should be set to 0xf.

Currently, a value of 0xf is set for EAX[3:0] instead of EAX[7:4]. Fix
this by changing MWAITX_DISABLE_CSTATES from 0xf to 0xf0.

This hasn't had any implications so far because setting reserved bits in
EAX is simply ignored by the CPU.

 [ bp: Fixup comment in delay_mwaitx() and massage. ]

Signed-off-by: Janakarajan Natarajan <Janakarajan.Natarajan@....com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: "x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>
Cc: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@...cle.com>
Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191007190011.4859-1-Janakarajan.Natarajan@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/include/asm/mwait.h |    2 +-
 arch/x86/lib/delay.c         |    4 ++--
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/mwait.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/mwait.h
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 #define MWAIT_ECX_INTERRUPT_BREAK	0x1
 #define MWAITX_ECX_TIMER_ENABLE		BIT(1)
 #define MWAITX_MAX_LOOPS		((u32)-1)
-#define MWAITX_DISABLE_CSTATES		0xf
+#define MWAITX_DISABLE_CSTATES		0xf0

 static inline void __monitor(const void *eax, unsigned long ecx,
 			     unsigned long edx)
--- a/arch/x86/lib/delay.c
+++ b/arch/x86/lib/delay.c
@@ -112,8 +112,8 @@ static void delay_mwaitx(unsigned long _
 		__monitorx(this_cpu_ptr(&cpu_tss), 0, 0);

 		/*
-		 * AMD, like Intel, supports the EAX hint and EAX=0xf
-		 * means, do not enter any deep C-state and we use it
+		 * AMD, like Intel's MWAIT version, supports the EAX hint and
+		 * EAX=0xf0 means, do not enter any deep C-state and we use it
 		 * here in delay() to minimize wakeup latency.
 		 */
 		__mwaitx(MWAITX_DISABLE_CSTATES, delay, MWAITX_ECX_TIMER_ENABLE);