x86 idle: Repair large-server 50-watt idle-power regression

commit 40e2d7f9b5dae048789c64672bf3027fbb663ffa upstream.

Linux 3.10 changed the timing of how thread_info->flags is touched:

	x86: Use generic idle loop
	(7d1a941731fabf27e5fb6edbebb79fe856edb4e5)

This caused Intel NHM-EX and WSM-EX servers to experience a large number
of immediate MONITOR/MWAIT break wakeups, which caused cpuidle to demote
from deep C-states to shallow C-states, which caused these platforms
to experience a significant increase in idle power.

Note that this issue was already present before the commit above,
however, it wasn't seen often enough to be noticed in power measurements.

Here we extend an errata workaround from the Core2 EX "Dunnington"
to extend to NHM-EX and WSM-EX, to prevent these immediate
returns from MWAIT, reducing idle power on these platforms.

While only acpi_idle ran on Dunnington, intel_idle
may also run on these two newer systems.
As of today, there are no other models that are known
to need this tweak.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAJvTdK=%2BaNN66mYpCGgbHGCHhYQAKx-vB0kJSWjVpsNb_hOAtQ@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/baff264285f6e585df757d58b17788feabc68918.1387403066.git.len.brown@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
index 9b0c441c03f5fef93c4d1f25fcb3cf7368370601..32d37d9a77873f9bcd012609bac95f1ad4a92e19 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
@@ -387,7 +387,8 @@ static void __cpuinit init_intel(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
                        set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_PEBS);
        }
 
-       if (c->x86 == 6 && c->x86_model == 29 && cpu_has_clflush)
+       if (c->x86 == 6 && cpu_has_clflush &&
+           (c->x86_model == 29 || c->x86_model == 46 || c->x86_model == 47))
                set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_CLFLUSH_MONITOR);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64

diff --git a/drivers/idle/intel_idle.c b/drivers/idle/intel_idle.c
index f116d664b4737edcabb621a9fdb7076cbcee1334..d47bb0f267f752466713378a1da451c56c987bb9 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/idle/intel_idle.c
+++ b/drivers/idle/intel_idle.c
@@ -361,6 +361,9 @@ static int intel_idle(struct cpuidle_device *dev,
 
        if (!current_set_polling_and_test()) {
 
+               if (this_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_CLFLUSH_MONITOR))
+                       clflush((void *)&current_thread_info()->flags);
+
                __monitor((void *)&current_thread_info()->flags, 0, 0);
                smp_mb();
                if (!need_resched())