5.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Daniel J Blueman daniel@quora.org
commit 455f9075f14484f358b3c1d6845b4a438de198a7 upstream.
When the BIOS configures the architectural TSC-adjust MSRs on secondary sockets to correct a constant inter-chassis offset, after Linux brings the cores online, the TSC sync check later resets the core-local MSR to 0, triggering HPET fallback and leading to performance loss.
Fix this by unconditionally using the initial adjust values read from the MSRs. Trusting the initial offsets in this architectural mechanism is a better approach than special-casing workarounds for specific platforms.
Signed-off-by: Daniel J Blueman daniel@quora.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Reviewed-by: Steffen Persvold sp@numascale.com Reviewed-by: James Cleverdon james.cleverdon.external@eviden.com Reviewed-by: Dimitri Sivanich sivanich@hpe.com Reviewed-by: Prarit Bhargava prarit@redhat.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240419085146.175665-1-daniel@quora.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- arch/x86/kernel/tsc_sync.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc_sync.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc_sync.c @@ -192,11 +192,9 @@ bool tsc_store_and_check_tsc_adjust(bool cur->warned = false;
/* - * If a non-zero TSC value for socket 0 may be valid then the default - * adjusted value cannot assumed to be zero either. + * The default adjust value cannot be assumed to be zero on any socket. */ - if (tsc_async_resets) - cur->adjusted = bootval; + cur->adjusted = bootval;
/* * Check whether this CPU is the first in a package to come up. In