Re: [PATCH 3/3][RFC/RFT] PM / sleep: Do not delay the synchronization of MTRR during resume

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>]

On Tuesday, October 31, 2017 10:58:50 AM CET Yu Chen wrote:
> From: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
> 
> Sometimes it is too late for the APs to synchronize the MTRR
> after all the APs have been brought up. In some cases the BIOS
> might scribble the MTRR across suspend/resume, as a result we
> might get insane MTRR after resumed back, thus every instruction
> run on this AP would be extremely slow if it happended to be 'uncached'
> in the MTRR, although after all the APs have been brought up, the
> delayed invoking of set_mtrr_state() will adjust the MTRR on APs
> thus brings everything back to normal. In practice it is necessary
> to synchronize the MTRR as early as possible to get it fixed during
> each AP's online. And this is what this patch does.
> 
> Moreover, since we have put the synchronization earlier, there is
> a side effect that, during each AP's online, the other cpus already
> online will be forced stopped to run mtrr_rendezvous_handler() and
> reprogram the MTRR again and again. This symptom can be lessened
> by checking if this cpu has already finished the synchronization
> during the enable_nonboot_cpus() stage, if it is, we can safely
> bypass the reprogramming action. (We can not bypass the
> mtrr_rendezvous_handler(), because the other online cpus must be
> stopped running the VMX transaction while one cpu is updating
> its MTRR, which is described here:
> Commit d0af9eed5aa9 ("x86, pat/mtrr: Rendezvous all the cpus for
> MTRR/PAT init")
> 
> This patch does not impact the normal boot up and cpu hotplug.
> 
> On a platform with insane MTRR after resumed,
> 1 .before this patch:
>    [  619.810899] Enabling non-boot CPUs ...
>    [  619.825537] smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 1 APIC 0x2
>    [  621.723809] CPU1 is up
>    [  621.840228] smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 3 APIC 0x3
>    [  626.690900] CPU3 is up
> 
> So it took cpu1 621.723809 - 619.825537 = 1898.272 ms, and
> cpu3 626.690900 - 621.840228 = 4850.672 ms.
> 
> 2. after this patch:
>    [  106.931790] smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 1 APIC 0x2
>    [  106.948360] CPU1 is up
>    [  106.986534] smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 3 APIC 0x3
>    [  106.990702] CPU3 is up
> 
> It took cpu1 106.948360 - 106.931790 = 16.57 ms, and
> cpu3 106.990702 - 106.986534 = 4.16 ms.
> 
> For comparison, I also verify the suspend on a 88 cpus Xeon Broadwell
> platform, and the result also shows that with this patch applied,
> the overall APs online time has decreased a little bit, I think this
> is because after we synchronize the MTRR earlier, the MTRRs also get
> updated to the correct value earlier.
> 
> I've tested 5 times each, before/after the patch applied:
> 
> 1. before this patch:
> [   64.549430] Enabling non-boot CPUs ...
> [   66.253304] End enabling non-boot CPUs
> 
> overall cpu online: 1.703874 second
> 
> [   62.159063] Enabling non-boot CPUs ...
> [   64.483443] End enabling non-boot CPUs
> 
> overall cpu online: 2.32438 second
> 
> [   58.351449] Enabling non-boot CPUs ...
> [   60.796951] End enabling non-boot CPUs
> 
> overall cpu online: 2.445502 second
> 
> [   64.491317] Enabling non-boot CPUs ...
> [   66.996208] End enabling non-boot CPUs
> 
> overall cpu online: 2.504891 second
> 
> [   60.593235] Enabling non-boot CPUs ...
> [   63.397886] End enabling non-boot CPUs
> 
> overall cpu online: 2.804651 second
> 
> average: 2.3566596 second
> 
> 2. after this patch:
> 
> [   66.077368] Enabling non-boot CPUs ...
> [   68.343374] End enabling non-boot CPUs
> 
> overall cpu online: 2.266006 second
> 
> [   64.594605] Enabling non-boot CPUs ...
> [   66.092688] End enabling non-boot CPUs
> 
> overall cpu online: 1.498083 second
> 
> [   64.778546] Enabling non-boot CPUs ...
> [   66.277577] End enabling non-boot CPUs
> 
> overall cpu online: 1.499031 second
> 
> [   63.773091] Enabling non-boot CPUs ...
> [   65.601637] End enabling non-boot CPUs
> 
> overall cpu online: 1.828546 second
> 
> [   64.638855] Enabling non-boot CPUs ...
> [   66.327098] End enabling non-boot CPUs
> 
> overall cpu online: 1.688243 second
> 
> average: 1.7559818 second
> 
> In one word, with the patch applied, the cpu online time during resume
> has decreased by about 6 seconds on a bogus MTRR platform, and decreased
> by about 600ms on a 88 cpus Xeon platform after resumed.
> 
> Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
> Cc: Rui Zhang <rui.zhang@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>

It will be better to combine this with patch [2/3] IMO, because that makes it
clear why the changes in that patch are needed.

Also you can define the new flag in mtrr/main.c, set it in
arch_enable_nonboot_cpus_begin() and clear it in
arch_enable_nonboot_cpus_end().  It is better to put it into the arch-specific
code as the flag itself is arch-specific.

Then, of course, you don't need patch [1/3] and all can be done in one patch.

> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c | 3 +++
>  arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c       | 2 --
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c
> index a4e7e23f3c2e..f4c2c60c6ac8 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c
> @@ -179,6 +179,9 @@ static int mtrr_rendezvous_handler(void *info)
>  		mtrr_if->set(data->smp_reg, data->smp_base,
>  			     data->smp_size, data->smp_type);
>  	} else if (mtrr_aps_delayed_init || !cpu_online(smp_processor_id())) {
> +		if (in_enable_nonboot_cpus() &&
> +		    data->smp_cpu != smp_processor_id())
> +			return 0;
>  		mtrr_if->set_all();
>  	}
>  	return 0;
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
> index ad59edd84de7..2d1ec878df63 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
> @@ -1366,12 +1366,10 @@ void __init native_smp_prepare_cpus(unsigned int max_cpus)
>  
>  void arch_enable_nonboot_cpus_begin(void)
>  {
> -	set_mtrr_aps_delayed_init();
>  }
>  
>  void arch_enable_nonboot_cpus_end(void)
>  {
> -	mtrr_aps_init();
>  }
>  
>  /*
>