linux-kernel - [PATCH v2] hwmon: coretemp: avoid RDMSR interruptions to isolated CPUs

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Message-ID: <Y5x7hXGGLkcmejKq@tpad>
Date:   Fri, 16 Dec 2022 11:07:01 -0300
From:   Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>
To:     Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Cc:     Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-hwmon@...r.kernel.org,
        Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2] hwmon: coretemp: avoid RDMSR interruptions to isolated
 CPUs


The coretemp driver uses rdmsr_on_cpu calls to read
MSR_IA32_PACKAGE_THERM_STATUS/MSR_IA32_THERM_STATUS registers,
which contain information about current core temperature.

For certain low latency applications, the RDMSR interruption exceeds
the applications requirements.

So disallow reading of crit_alarm and temp files via /sys, returning 
-EINVAL, in case CPU isolation is enabled.

Temperature information from the housekeeping cores should be
sufficient to infer die temperature.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>

---
v2: improve changelog to mention that an error is returned,
    and sysfs file is not disabled (Guenter Roeck)

diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c b/drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c
index 9bee4d33fbdf..30a35f4130d5 100644
--- a/drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 #include <asm/msr.h>
 #include <asm/processor.h>
 #include <asm/cpu_device_id.h>
+#include <linux/sched/isolation.h>
 
 #define DRVNAME	"coretemp"
 
@@ -121,6 +122,10 @@ static ssize_t show_crit_alarm(struct device *dev,
 	struct platform_data *pdata = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
 	struct temp_data *tdata = pdata->core_data[attr->index];
 
+
+	if (!housekeeping_cpu(tdata->cpu, HK_TYPE_MISC))
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	mutex_lock(&tdata->update_lock);
 	rdmsr_on_cpu(tdata->cpu, tdata->status_reg, &eax, &edx);
 	mutex_unlock(&tdata->update_lock);
@@ -158,6 +163,8 @@ static ssize_t show_temp(struct device *dev,
 
 	/* Check whether the time interval has elapsed */
 	if (!tdata->valid || time_after(jiffies, tdata->last_updated + HZ)) {
+		if (!housekeeping_cpu(tdata->cpu, HK_TYPE_MISC))
+			return -EINVAL;
 		rdmsr_on_cpu(tdata->cpu, tdata->status_reg, &eax, &edx);
 		/*
 		 * Ignore the valid bit. In all observed cases the register