x86: disable preemption in delay_tsc()

Marin Mitov points out that delay_tsc() can misbehave if it is preempted and
rescheduled on a different CPU which has a skewed TSC.  Fix it by disabling
preemption.

(I assume that the worst-case behaviour here is a stall of 2^32 cycles)

Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Marin Mitov <mitov@issp.bas.bg>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Andrew Morton 2007-11-14 17:00:41 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 7eea436433
commit 35d5d08a08
2 changed files with 10 additions and 4 deletions

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@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/preempt.h>
#include <linux/delay.h>
#include <asm/processor.h>
@ -42,11 +43,13 @@ static void delay_tsc(unsigned long loops)
{
unsigned long bclock, now;
preempt_disable(); /* TSC's are per-cpu */
rdtscl(bclock);
do {
rep_nop();
rdtscl(now);
} while ((now-bclock) < loops);
preempt_enable();
}
/*

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@ -10,7 +10,9 @@
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/preempt.h>
#include <linux/delay.h>
#include <asm/delay.h>
#include <asm/msr.h>
@ -27,14 +29,15 @@ int read_current_timer(unsigned long *timer_value)
void __delay(unsigned long loops)
{
unsigned bclock, now;
preempt_disable(); /* TSC's are pre-cpu */
rdtscl(bclock);
do
{
do {
rep_nop();
rdtscl(now);
}
while((now-bclock) < loops);
while ((now-bclock) < loops);
preempt_enable();
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__delay);