linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 1/2] x86/delay: Refactor delay

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Date:   Thu, 19 Mar 2020 21:13:23 -0700
From:   Kyung Min Park <kyung.min.park@...el.com>
To:     x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com, hpa@...or.com,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, ak@...ux.intel.com,
        tony.luck@...el.com, ashok.raj@...el.com, ravi.v.shankar@...el.com,
        fenghua.yu@...el.com, kyung.min.park@...el.com
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/2] x86/delay: Refactor delay_mwaitx() for TPAUSE support

Refactor code to make it easier to add a new model specific function to
delay for a number of cycles.

No functional change.

Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
Co-developed-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Kyung Min Park <kyung.min.park@...el.com>
---
 arch/x86/lib/delay.c | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/delay.c b/arch/x86/lib/delay.c
index a6376cc..e6db855 100644
--- a/arch/x86/lib/delay.c
+++ b/arch/x86/lib/delay.c
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ static void delay_loop(u64 __loops);
  * during boot.
  */
 static void (*delay_fn)(u64) __ro_after_init = delay_loop;
+static void (*delay_halt_fn)(u64 start, u64 cycles) __ro_after_init;
 
 /* simple loop based delay: */
 static void delay_loop(u64 __loops)
@@ -100,9 +101,33 @@ static void delay_tsc(u64 cycles)
  * counts with TSC frequency. The input value is the number of TSC cycles
  * to wait. MWAITX will also exit when the timer expires.
  */
-static void delay_mwaitx(u64 cycles)
+static void delay_halt_mwaitx(u64 unused, u64 cycles)
 {
-	u64 start, end, delay;
+	u64 delay;
+
+	delay = min_t(u64, MWAITX_MAX_WAIT_CYCLES, cycles);
+	/*
+	 * Use cpu_tss_rw as a cacheline-aligned, seldomly accessed per-cpu
+	 * variable as the monitor target.
+	 */
+	 __monitorx(raw_cpu_ptr(&cpu_tss_rw), 0, 0);
+
+	/*
+	 * AMD, like Intel, supports the EAX hint and EAX=0xf 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);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Call a vendor specific function to delay for a given amount of time. Because
+ * these functions may return earlier than requested, check for actual elapsed
+ * time and call again until done.
+ */
+static void delay_halt(u64 __cycles)
+{
+	u64 start, end, cycles = __cycles;
 
 	/*
 	 * Timer value of 0 causes MWAITX to wait indefinitely, unless there
@@ -114,21 +139,7 @@ static void delay_mwaitx(u64 cycles)
 	start = rdtsc_ordered();
 
 	for (;;) {
-		delay = min_t(u64, MWAITX_MAX_WAIT_CYCLES, cycles);
-
-		/*
-		 * Use cpu_tss_rw as a cacheline-aligned, seldomly
-		 * accessed per-cpu variable as the monitor target.
-		 */
-		__monitorx(raw_cpu_ptr(&cpu_tss_rw), 0, 0);
-
-		/*
-		 * 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);
-
+		delay_halt_fn(start, cycles);
 		end = rdtsc_ordered();
 
 		if (cycles <= end - start)
@@ -147,7 +158,8 @@ void use_tsc_delay(void)
 
 void use_mwaitx_delay(void)
 {
-	delay_fn = delay_mwaitx;
+	delay_halt_fn = delay_halt_mwaitx;
+	delay_fn = delay_halt;
 }
 
 int read_current_timer(unsigned long *timer_val)
-- 
2.7.4