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Thomas Gleixner cc8bf19137 x86/apic: Make apic_pending_intr_clear() more robust
In course of developing shorthand based IPI support issues with the
function which tries to clear eventually pending ISR bits in the local APIC
were observed.

  1) O-day testing triggered the WARN_ON() in apic_pending_intr_clear().

     This warning is emitted when the function fails to clear pending ISR
     bits or observes pending IRR bits which are not delivered to the CPU
     after the stale ISR bit(s) are ACK'ed.

     Unfortunately the function only emits a WARN_ON() and fails to dump
     the IRR/ISR content. That's useless for debugging.

     Feng added spot on debug printk's which revealed that the stale IRR
     bit belonged to the APIC timer interrupt vector, but adding ad hoc
     debug code does not help with sporadic failures in the field.

     Rework the loop so the full IRR/ISR contents are saved and on failure
     dumped.

  2) The loop termination logic is interesting at best.

     If the machine has no TSC or cpu_khz is not known yet it tries 1
     million times to ack stale IRR/ISR bits. What?

     With TSC it uses the TSC to calculate the loop termination. It takes a
     timestamp at entry and terminates the loop when:

     	  (rdtsc() - start_timestamp) >= (cpu_hkz << 10)

     That's roughly one second.

     Both methods are problematic. The APIC has 256 vectors, which means
     that in theory max. 256 IRR/ISR bits can be set. In practice this is
     impossible and the chance that more than a few bits are set is close
     to zero.

     With the pure loop based approach the 1 million retries are complete
     overkill.

     With TSC this can terminate too early in a guest which is running on a
     heavily loaded host even with only a couple of IRR/ISR bits set. The
     reason is that after acknowledging the highest priority ISR bit,
     pending IRRs must get serviced first before the next round of
     acknowledge can take place as the APIC (real and virtualized) does not
     honour EOI without a preceeding interrupt on the CPU. And every APIC
     read/write takes a VMEXIT if the APIC is virtualized. While trying to
     reproduce the issue 0-day reported it was observed that the guest was
     scheduled out long enough under heavy load that it terminated after 8
     iterations.

     Make the loop terminate after 512 iterations. That's plenty enough
     in any case and does not take endless time to complete.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190722105219.158847694@linutronix.de
2019-07-25 16:11:56 +02:00
arch x86/apic: Make apic_pending_intr_clear() more robust 2019-07-25 16:11:56 +02:00
block docs conversion for v5.3-rc1 2019-07-16 12:21:41 -07:00
certs Revert "Merge tag 'keys-acl-20190703' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs" 2019-07-10 18:43:43 -07:00
crypto USB / PHY patches for 5.3-rc1 2019-07-11 15:40:06 -07:00
Documentation Devicetree fixes for 5.3: 2019-07-21 10:28:39 -07:00
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include cpumask: Implement cpumask_or_equal() 2019-07-25 15:47:37 +02:00
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kernel smp/hotplug: Track booted once CPUs in a cpumask 2019-07-25 15:47:37 +02:00
lib cpumask: Implement cpumask_or_equal() 2019-07-25 15:47:37 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
mm Merge branch 'work.mount0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2019-07-19 10:42:02 -07:00
net tcp: be more careful in tcp_fragment() 2019-07-21 20:41:24 -07:00
samples Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2019-07-19 10:06:06 -07:00
scripts Kbuild updates for v5.3 (2nd) 2019-07-20 09:34:55 -07:00
security Merge branch 'work.mount0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2019-07-19 10:42:02 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 5.3-rc1 2019-07-18 09:36:51 -07:00
tools New feature to add support for NTB virtual MSI interrupts, the ability 2019-07-21 09:46:59 -07:00
usr Kbuild updates for v5.3 (2nd) 2019-07-20 09:34:55 -07:00
virt KVM: Boost vCPUs that are delivering interrupts 2019-07-20 09:00:45 +02:00
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MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-07-20 11:24:49 -07:00
Makefile Linus 5.3-rc1 2019-07-21 14:05:38 -07:00
README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.