On Tuesday, 17 of June 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
quoted text
> On Tuesday, 17 of June 2008, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > 
> > > BTW, with the C1E patches reverted I don't get the
> > > WARNING: at /home/rafael/src/linux-next/kernel/smp.c:215 smp_call_function_single+0x3d/0xa2
> > > in the log.  Thomas?
> > 
> > Yeah, my bad. Fix below.
> 
> Thanks, it eliminates the WARNING, but still the box doesn't work with
> the "x86: add C1E aware idle function" patch applied, even with 'highres=off'.
> 
> The main symptom is that CPU loads are computed incorrectly (I got X using 126%
> of CPU time from 'top', for example).  Apart from this, some processes (like
> gkrellm) seem to be 'frozen' and only change their state in 'jumps', as though
> they only got CPU from time to time at random.
> 
> Reverting the above-mentioned patch fixes those problems.

Ah.  If your fix is replaced with the appended one, the system happily works
with C1E and highres.

Thanks,
Rafael


---
 arch/x86/kernel/process.c |   16 +++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-next/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
===================================================================
--- linux-next.orig/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
+++ linux-next/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
@@ -265,16 +265,30 @@ static void c1e_idle(void)
 	if (c1e_detected) {
 		int cpu = smp_processor_id();
 
+		local_irq_enable();
+
 		if (!cpu_isset(cpu, c1e_mask)) {
 			cpu_set(cpu, c1e_mask);
-			/* Force broadcast so ACPI can not interfere */
+			/*
+			 * Force broadcast so ACPI can not interfere. Needs
+			 * to run with interrupts enabled as it uses
+			 * smp_function_call.
+			 */
 			clockevents_notify(CLOCK_EVT_NOTIFY_BROADCAST_FORCE,
 					   &cpu);
 			printk(KERN_INFO "Switch to broadcast mode on CPU%d\n",
 			       cpu);
 		}
+		local_irq_disable();
 		clockevents_notify(CLOCK_EVT_NOTIFY_BROADCAST_ENTER, &cpu);
+		local_irq_enable();
+
 		default_idle();
+
+		/*
+		 * The switch back from broadcast mode needs to be
+		 * called with interrupts disabled.
+		 */
 		local_irq_disable();
 		clockevents_notify(CLOCK_EVT_NOTIFY_BROADCAST_EXIT, &cpu);
 		local_irq_enable();
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