On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 12:28:00PM -0400, Vince Weaver wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Apr 2019, tip-bot for Stephane Eranian wrote:
>
> > Commit-ID: f447e4eb3ad1e60d173ca997fcb2ef2a66f12574
> > Gitweb:
> > https://git.kernel.org/tip/f447e4eb3ad1e60d173ca997fcb2ef2a66f12574
> > Author: Stephane Eranian <eran...@google.com>
> > AuthorDate: Mon, 8 Apr 2019 10:32:52 -0700
> > Committer: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
> > CommitDate: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 12:19:35 +0200
> >
> > perf/x86/intel: Force resched when TFA sysctl is modified
>
> What's TFA? Tuna-fish-alarm? Nowhere in the commit or in the code does
> it ever say what a TFA is or why we'd want to resched when it is modified.
See commit: 400816f60c54 ("perf/x86/intel: Implement support for TSX Force
Abort")
Author: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <pet...@infradead.org>
Date: Tue Mar 5 22:23:18 2019 +0100
perf/x86/intel: Implement support for TSX Force Abort
Skylake (and later) will receive a microcode update to address a TSX
errata. This microcode will, on execution of a TSX instruction
(speculative or not) use (clobber) PMC3. This update will also provide
a new MSR to change this behaviour along with a CPUID bit to enumerate
the presence of this new MSR.
When the MSR gets set; the microcode will no longer use PMC3 but will
Force Abort every TSX transaction (upon executing COMMIT).
When TSX Force Abort (TFA) is allowed (default); the MSR gets set when
PMC3 gets scheduled and cleared when, after scheduling, PMC3 is
unused.
When TFA is not allowed; clear PMC3 from all constraints such that it
will not get used.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <pet...@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
