From e888d7facd1f1460a638151036d15b6cfb3ccc74 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:44:31 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] x86, delay: tsc based udelay should have rdtsc_barrier
delay_tsc needs rdtsc_barrier to provide proper delay.
Output from a test driver using hpet to cross check delay
provided by udelay().
Before:
[ 86.794363] Expected delay 5us actual 4679ns
[ 87.154362] Expected delay 5us actual 698ns
[ 87.514162] Expected delay 5us actual 4539ns
[ 88.653716] Expected delay 5us actual 4539ns
[ 94.664106] Expected delay 10us actual 9638ns
[ 95.049351] Expected delay 10us actual 10126ns
[ 95.416110] Expected delay 10us actual 9568ns
[ 95.799216] Expected delay 10us actual 9638ns
[ 103.624104] Expected delay 10us actual 9707ns
[ 104.020619] Expected delay 10us actual 768ns
[ 104.419951] Expected delay 10us actual 9707ns
After:
[ 50.983320] Expected delay 5us actual 5587ns
[ 51.261807] Expected delay 5us actual 5587ns
[ 51.565715] Expected delay 5us actual 5657ns
[ 51.861171] Expected delay 5us actual 5587ns
[ 52.164704] Expected delay 5us actual 5726ns
[ 52.487457] Expected delay 5us actual 5657ns
[ 52.789338] Expected delay 5us actual 5726ns
[ 57.119680] Expected delay 10us actual 10755ns
[ 57.893997] Expected delay 10us actual 10615ns
[ 58.261287] Expected delay 10us actual 10755ns
[ 58.620505] Expected delay 10us actual 10825ns
[ 58.941035] Expected delay 10us actual 10755ns
[ 59.320903] Expected delay 10us actual 10615ns
[ 61.306311] Expected delay 10us actual 10755ns
[ 61.520542] Expected delay 10us actual 10615ns
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
---
arch/x86/lib/delay.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/delay.c b/arch/x86/lib/delay.c
index f4568605d7d5..ff485d361182 100644
--- a/arch/x86/lib/delay.c
+++ b/arch/x86/lib/delay.c
@@ -55,8 +55,10 @@ static void delay_tsc(unsigned long loops)
preempt_disable();
cpu = smp_processor_id();
+ rdtsc_barrier();
rdtscl(bclock);
for (;;) {
+ rdtsc_barrier();
rdtscl(now);
if ((now - bclock) >= loops)
break;
@@ -78,6 +80,7 @@ static void delay_tsc(unsigned long loops)
if (unlikely(cpu != smp_processor_id())) {
loops -= (now - bclock);
cpu = smp_processor_id();
+ rdtsc_barrier();
rdtscl(bclock);
}
}
--
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