[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH v7 6/8] x86: tsc: Always Running Timer (ART) correlated clocksource

Christopher S. Hall christopher.s.hall at intel.com
Fri Feb 12 20:25:27 UTC 2016


On modern Intel systems TSC is derived from the new Always Running Timer
(ART). ART can be captured simultaneous to the capture of
audio and network device clocks, allowing a correlation between timebases
to be constructed. Upon capture, the driver converts the captured ART
value to the appropriate system clock using the correlated clocksource
mechanism.

On systems that support ART a new CPUID leaf (0x15) returns parameters
“m” and “n” such that:

TSC_value = (ART_value * m) / n + k [n >= 2]

[k is an offset that can adjusted by a privileged agent. The
IA32_TSC_ADJUST MSR is an example of an interface to adjust k.
See 17.14.4 of the Intel SDM for more details]

Signed-off-by: Christopher S. Hall <christopher.s.hall at intel.com>
[jstultz: Tweaked to fix build issue, also reworked math for
64bit division on 32bit systems]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz at linaro.org>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h |  3 ++-
 arch/x86/include/asm/tsc.h        |  2 ++
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/scattered.c   |  1 +
 arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c             | 50 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 55 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
index 7ad8c94..111b892 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@
 #define X86_FEATURE_P4		( 3*32+ 7) /* "" P4 */
 #define X86_FEATURE_CONSTANT_TSC ( 3*32+ 8) /* TSC ticks at a constant rate */
 #define X86_FEATURE_UP		( 3*32+ 9) /* smp kernel running on up */
-/* free, was #define X86_FEATURE_FXSAVE_LEAK ( 3*32+10) * "" FXSAVE leaks FOP/FIP/FOP */
+#define X86_FEATURE_ART		(3*32+10) /* Platform has always running timer (ART) */
 #define X86_FEATURE_ARCH_PERFMON ( 3*32+11) /* Intel Architectural PerfMon */
 #define X86_FEATURE_PEBS	( 3*32+12) /* Precise-Event Based Sampling */
 #define X86_FEATURE_BTS		( 3*32+13) /* Branch Trace Store */
@@ -188,6 +188,7 @@
 
 #define X86_FEATURE_CPB		( 7*32+ 2) /* AMD Core Performance Boost */
 #define X86_FEATURE_EPB		( 7*32+ 3) /* IA32_ENERGY_PERF_BIAS support */
+#define X86_FEATURE_INVARIANT_TSC (7*32+4) /* Intel Invariant TSC */
 
 #define X86_FEATURE_HW_PSTATE	( 7*32+ 8) /* AMD HW-PState */
 #define X86_FEATURE_PROC_FEEDBACK ( 7*32+ 9) /* AMD ProcFeedbackInterface */
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/tsc.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/tsc.h
index 6d7c547..174c421 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/tsc.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/tsc.h
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ static inline cycles_t get_cycles(void)
 	return rdtsc();
 }
 
+extern struct system_counterval_t convert_art_to_tsc(cycle_t art);
+
 extern void tsc_init(void);
 extern void mark_tsc_unstable(char *reason);
 extern int unsynchronized_tsc(void);
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/scattered.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/scattered.c
index 8cb57df..af0ecd7 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/scattered.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/scattered.c
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ void init_scattered_cpuid_features(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
 		{ X86_FEATURE_APERFMPERF,	CR_ECX, 0, 0x00000006, 0 },
 		{ X86_FEATURE_EPB,		CR_ECX, 3, 0x00000006, 0 },
 		{ X86_FEATURE_HW_PSTATE,	CR_EDX, 7, 0x80000007, 0 },
+		{ X86_FEATURE_INVARIANT_TSC,	CR_EDX, 8, 0x80000007, 0 },
 		{ X86_FEATURE_CPB,		CR_EDX, 9, 0x80000007, 0 },
 		{ X86_FEATURE_PROC_FEEDBACK,	CR_EDX,11, 0x80000007, 0 },
 		{ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 }
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
index 3d743da..0ee3b62 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
@@ -43,6 +43,10 @@ static DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(__use_tsc);
 
 int tsc_clocksource_reliable;
 
+static u32 art_to_tsc_numerator;
+static u32 art_to_tsc_denominator;
+struct clocksource *art_related_clocksource;
+
 /*
  * Use a ring-buffer like data structure, where a writer advances the head by
  * writing a new data entry and a reader advances the tail when it observes a
@@ -949,10 +953,35 @@ static struct notifier_block time_cpufreq_notifier_block = {
 	.notifier_call  = time_cpufreq_notifier
 };
 
+#define ART_CPUID_LEAF (0x15)
+/* The denominator will never be less that 2 */
+#define ART_MIN_DENOMINATOR (2)
+
+
+/*
+ * If ART is present detect the numerator:denominator to convert to TSC
+ */
+static void detect_art(void)
+{
+	unsigned int unused[2];
+
+	if (boot_cpu_data.cpuid_level >= ART_CPUID_LEAF) {
+		cpuid(ART_CPUID_LEAF, &art_to_tsc_denominator,
+		      &art_to_tsc_numerator, unused, unused+1);
+
+		if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_INVARIANT_TSC) &&
+		    art_to_tsc_denominator >= ART_MIN_DENOMINATOR)
+			set_cpu_cap(&boot_cpu_data, X86_FEATURE_ART);
+	}
+}
+
 static int __init cpufreq_tsc(void)
 {
 	if (!cpu_has_tsc)
 		return 0;
+
+	detect_art();
+
 	if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_CONSTANT_TSC))
 		return 0;
 	cpufreq_register_notifier(&time_cpufreq_notifier_block,
@@ -1071,6 +1100,25 @@ int unsynchronized_tsc(void)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Convert ART to TSC given numerator/denominator found in detect_art()
+ */
+struct system_counterval_t convert_art_to_tsc(cycle_t art)
+{
+	u64 tmp, res, rem;
+
+	rem = do_div(art, art_to_tsc_denominator);
+
+	res = art * art_to_tsc_numerator;
+	tmp = rem * art_to_tsc_numerator;
+
+	do_div(tmp, art_to_tsc_denominator);
+	res += tmp;
+
+	return (struct system_counterval_t) {.cs = art_related_clocksource,
+			.cycles = res};
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(convert_art_to_tsc);
 
 static void tsc_refine_calibration_work(struct work_struct *work);
 static DECLARE_DELAYED_WORK(tsc_irqwork, tsc_refine_calibration_work);
@@ -1142,6 +1190,8 @@ static void tsc_refine_calibration_work(struct work_struct *work)
 		(unsigned long)tsc_khz % 1000);
 
 out:
+	if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_ART))
+		art_related_clocksource = &clocksource_tsc;
 	clocksource_register_khz(&clocksource_tsc, tsc_khz);
 }
 
-- 
2.1.4



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