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Steph



> On Apr 1, 2016, at 10:03 AM, Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 12:37:00AM -0400, Len Brown wrote:
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/aperfmperf.c 
>> b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/aperfmperf.c
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..9380102
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/aperfmperf.c
>> @@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
>> +/*
>> + * x86 APERF/MPERF KHz calculation
>> + * Used by /proc/cpuinfo and /sys/.../cpufreq/scaling_cur_freq
>> + *
>> + * Copyright (C) 2015 Intel Corp.
>> + * Author: Len Brown <[email protected]>
>> + *
>> + * This file is licensed under GPLv2.
>> + */
>> +
>> +#include <linux/jiffies.h>
>> +#include <linux/math64.h>
>> +#include <linux/percpu.h>
>> +#include <linux/smp.h>
>> +
>> +struct aperfmperf_sample {
>> +    unsigned int khz;
>> +    unsigned long jiffies;
>> +    unsigned long long aperf;
>> +    unsigned long long mperf;
>> +};
>> +
>> +static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct aperfmperf_sample, samples);
>> +
>> +/*
>> + * aperfmperf_snapshot_khz()
>> + * On the current CPU, snapshot APERF, MPERF, and jiffies
>> + * unless we already did it within 100ms
>> + * calculate kHz, save snapshot
>> + */
>> +static void aperfmperf_snapshot_khz(void *dummy)
>> +{
>> +    unsigned long long aperf, aperf_delta;
>> +    unsigned long long mperf, mperf_delta;
>> +    unsigned long long numerator;
> 
>       u64 is less typing ;-)
> 
>> +    struct aperfmperf_sample *s = &get_cpu_var(samples);
>> +
>> +    /* Cache KHz for 100 ms */
>> +    if (time_before(jiffies, s->jiffies + HZ/10))
>> +            goto out;
> 
> This puts in a lower bound, but afaict there is no upper bound. Both
> users appear to be userspace controlled.
> 
> That is; if userspace doesn't request a freq reading we can go without
> reading this for a very long time.
> 
>> +
>> +    rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_APERF, aperf);
>> +    rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_MPERF, mperf);
>> +
>> +    aperf_delta = aperf - s->aperf;
>> +    mperf_delta = mperf - s->mperf;
> 
> That means these delta's can be arbitrarily large, in fact the MSRs can
> have wrapped however many times.

64 bits is 18 446 744 073 709 551 615

so even assuming a 10 GHz frequency if my math are good this is more than
58 years before the MSR wrap around, assuming the device ran always at max
freq.



> 
>> +
>> +    /*
>> +     * There is no architectural guarantee that MPERF
>> +     * increments faster than we can read it.
>> +     */
>> +    if (mperf_delta == 0)
>> +            goto out;
>> +
>> +    numerator = cpu_khz * aperf_delta;
> 
> And since delta can be any 64bit value as per the msr range, this
> multiplication can overflow.
> 
>> +    s->khz = div64_u64(numerator, mperf_delta);
>> +    s->jiffies = jiffies;
>> +    s->aperf = aperf;
>> +    s->mperf = mperf;
>> +
>> +out:
>> +    put_cpu_var(samples);
>> +}
>> +
>> +unsigned int aperfmperf_khz_on_cpu(int cpu)
>> +{
>> +    if (!cpu_khz)
>> +            return 0;
>> +
>> +    if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_APERFMPERF))
>> +            return 0;
> 
> You could do the jiffy compare here; avoiding the IPI.
> 
>> +
>> +    smp_call_function_single(cpu, aperfmperf_snapshot_khz, NULL, 1);
>> +
>> +    return per_cpu(samples.khz, cpu);
>> +}
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