[PATCH 02/10] cpuidle: Fix CPUIDLE_FLAG_IRQ_ENABLE leaking timer reprogram

From: Frederic Weisbecker
Date: Fri Aug 11 2023 - 13:01:17 EST


From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

intel_idle_irq() re-enables IRQs very early. As a result, an interrupt
may fire before mwait() is eventually called. If such an interrupt queues
a timer, it may go unnoticed until mwait returns and the idle loop
handles the tick re-evaluation. And monitoring TIF_NEED_RESCHED doesn't
help because a local timer enqueue doesn't set that flag.

The issue is mitigated by the fact that this idle handler is only invoked
for shallow C-states when, presumably, the next tick is supposed to be
close enough. There may still be rare cases though when the next tick
is far away and the selected C-state is shallow, resulting in a timer
getting ignored for a while.

Fix this with using sti_mwait() whose IRQ-reenablement only triggers
upon calling mwait(), dealing with the race while keeping the interrupt
latency within acceptable bounds.

Fixes: c227233ad64c (intel_idle: enable interrupts before C1 on Xeons)
Not-yet-signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/mwait.h | 11 +++++++++--
drivers/idle/intel_idle.c | 19 +++++++------------
2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/mwait.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/mwait.h
index 341ee4f1d91e..920426d691ce 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/mwait.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/mwait.h
@@ -124,8 +124,15 @@ static __always_inline void mwait_idle_with_hints(unsigned long eax, unsigned lo
}

__monitor((void *)&current_thread_info()->flags, 0, 0);
- if (!need_resched())
- __mwait(eax, ecx);
+
+ if (!need_resched()) {
+ if (ecx & 1) {
+ __mwait(eax, ecx);
+ } else {
+ __sti_mwait(eax, ecx);
+ raw_local_irq_disable();
+ }
+ }
}
current_clr_polling();
}
diff --git a/drivers/idle/intel_idle.c b/drivers/idle/intel_idle.c
index 256c2d42e350..d676d32741da 100644
--- a/drivers/idle/intel_idle.c
+++ b/drivers/idle/intel_idle.c
@@ -131,11 +131,12 @@ static unsigned int mwait_substates __initdata;
#define MWAIT2flg(eax) ((eax & 0xFF) << 24)

static __always_inline int __intel_idle(struct cpuidle_device *dev,
- struct cpuidle_driver *drv, int index)
+ struct cpuidle_driver *drv,
+ int index, bool irqoff)
{
struct cpuidle_state *state = &drv->states[index];
unsigned long eax = flg2MWAIT(state->flags);
- unsigned long ecx = 1; /* break on interrupt flag */
+ unsigned long ecx = 1*irqoff; /* break on interrupt flag */

mwait_idle_with_hints(eax, ecx);

@@ -159,19 +160,13 @@ static __always_inline int __intel_idle(struct cpuidle_device *dev,
static __cpuidle int intel_idle(struct cpuidle_device *dev,
struct cpuidle_driver *drv, int index)
{
- return __intel_idle(dev, drv, index);
+ return __intel_idle(dev, drv, index, true);
}

static __cpuidle int intel_idle_irq(struct cpuidle_device *dev,
struct cpuidle_driver *drv, int index)
{
- int ret;
-
- raw_local_irq_enable();
- ret = __intel_idle(dev, drv, index);
- raw_local_irq_disable();
-
- return ret;
+ return __intel_idle(dev, drv, index, false);
}

static __cpuidle int intel_idle_ibrs(struct cpuidle_device *dev,
@@ -184,7 +179,7 @@ static __cpuidle int intel_idle_ibrs(struct cpuidle_device *dev,
if (smt_active)
native_wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, 0);

- ret = __intel_idle(dev, drv, index);
+ ret = __intel_idle(dev, drv, index, true);

if (smt_active)
native_wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, spec_ctrl);
@@ -196,7 +191,7 @@ static __cpuidle int intel_idle_xstate(struct cpuidle_device *dev,
struct cpuidle_driver *drv, int index)
{
fpu_idle_fpregs();
- return __intel_idle(dev, drv, index);
+ return __intel_idle(dev, drv, index, true);
}

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