Bug 2560 - LAPIC timer loses time if C3 enabled
Summary: LAPIC timer loses time if C3 enabled
Status: CLOSED CODE_FIX
Alias: None
Product: ACPI
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Power-Processor (show other bugs)
Hardware: i386 Linux
: P2 normal
Assignee: Venkatesh Pallipadi
URL:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2004-04-21 19:24 UTC by Shaohua
Modified: 2006-02-15 18:36 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

See Also:
Kernel Version: 2.6.5
Subsystem:
Regression: ---
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Attachments
patch for the problem (1.16 KB, patch)
2004-04-21 19:25 UTC, Shaohua
Details | Diff
proposed patch (951 bytes, patch)
2004-06-06 21:55 UTC, Shaohua
Details | Diff
patch to disable lapic timer (7.02 KB, patch)
2005-04-07 18:33 UTC, Venkatesh Pallipadi
Details | Diff
updated pach to handle x86-64 as well (17.99 KB, patch)
2005-04-20 18:58 UTC, Venkatesh Pallipadi
Details | Diff
Patch [1/3] : Remove profiling fine control (5.70 KB, patch)
2005-12-12 15:51 UTC, Venkatesh Pallipadi
Details | Diff
Patch [2/3] : timer broadcast i386 (5.77 KB, patch)
2005-12-12 16:03 UTC, Venkatesh Pallipadi
Details | Diff
Patch [3/3] : timer broadcast x86_64 (3.91 KB, patch)
2005-12-12 16:04 UTC, Venkatesh Pallipadi
Details | Diff
Patch [2/3] : timer broadcast i386 (5.74 KB, patch)
2005-12-13 09:50 UTC, Venkatesh Pallipadi
Details | Diff
Patch [3/3] : timer broadcast x86_64 (3.88 KB, patch)
2005-12-13 09:51 UTC, Venkatesh Pallipadi
Details | Diff

Description Shaohua 2004-04-21 19:24:11 UTC
With the processor in C3-state, we miss local APIC timer interrupts. 
I presume the reason is, in C3-state local APIC clock is stopped.
This results in strange situation when I have LAPIC enabled 
(or use SMP kernel), on a system that supports C3 state (T40).
In the above case, HZ will be incremented based on timer interrupts
from PIT. So, that will go at a normal rate (100 per sec). But, the 
LAPIC timer interrupt, which is used for scheduler purposes and process 
time accounting in the kernel, will run at a much lower speed (something 
like 1/2 or 1/4th of HZ). 

How to identify the problem:
Run SMP kernel on T40.
cat /proc/interrupts
Normally number for timer and LOC should be nearly same, but in this 
case we see them widely different.
Comment 1 Shaohua 2004-04-21 19:25:11 UTC
Created attachment 2639 [details]
patch for the problem

proposed patch. it disable C3 state if lapic is enabled.
Comment 2 Len Brown 2004-04-28 21:34:27 UTC
patch doesn't look right, will still disable C3 when lapic disabled via dmi-scan. 
(perhaps the correct thing to do is to fix dmi_scan to act like "nolapic") 
But won't the patch also disable C3 on an HPET timer system? 
Comment 3 Shaohua 2004-06-06 21:55:11 UTC
Created attachment 3100 [details]
proposed patch

Ok, Len, how about this one? or did you have any other good idea? Thanks.
Comment 4 Len Brown 2004-11-10 18:30:29 UTC
Unclear that disabling C3 when LAPIC timer is enabled is the solution.

This would be a deal-killer for SMP C3 mode, which we eventually want to 
support.
Comment 5 Venkatesh Pallipadi 2004-11-17 09:55:47 UTC
Instead of just disabling LAPIC or C3, we can probably offset the LAPIC timer 
after C3 wakeup, using PM_TIMER. We already read the PM_timer before and after 
C3 anyway. Only issue can be how well APIC timer_function can handle the lost 
interrupts.
Comment 6 Shaohua 2004-12-20 21:16:44 UTC
Today I did an experiment, which tries to adjust LAPIC timer according to 
PM_Timer. But it can't help. There are still lost interrupts.
Comment 7 Venkatesh Pallipadi 2005-04-07 18:33:35 UTC
Created attachment 4881 [details]
patch to disable lapic timer

comments inside the patch
Comment 8 Venkatesh Pallipadi 2005-04-20 18:58:49 UTC
Created attachment 4960 [details]
updated pach to handle x86-64 as well
Comment 9 James Pattinson 2005-10-19 05:21:51 UTC
Hi Venkatesh

I believe I am seeing this issue, although my timer and LOC interrups aren't
*TOO* out of sync. What do you think?

I am running 2.6.13 on x86_64 but your patch does not apply cleanly to
arch/x86_64/kernel/nmi.c - it all looks a bit different.

Thanks
James

crocodile linux # cat /proc/interrupts 
           CPU0       
  0:     282512    IO-APIC-edge  timer
  1:         10    IO-APIC-edge  i8042
  8:          0    IO-APIC-edge  rtc
 12:        113    IO-APIC-edge  i8042
 15:         25    IO-APIC-edge  ide1
177:          0   IO-APIC-level  acpi
185:       1321   IO-APIC-level  libata
193:          4   IO-APIC-level  libata
201:          2   IO-APIC-level  ehci_hcd:usb1, ohci_hcd:usb2, ohci_hcd:usb3
209:       2628   IO-APIC-level  eth0
NMI:         42 
LOC:     282456 
ERR:          0
MIS:          0

crocodile linux # cat /var/log/messages  | grep time

Oct 19 12:58:10 crocodile time.c: Lost 1 timer tick(s)! rip
_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x5/0x10)
Oct 19 12:58:10 crocodile time.c: Lost 129 timer tick(s)! rip
_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x5/0x10)
Oct 19 12:58:10 crocodile time.c: Lost 1 timer tick(s)! rip
release_console_sem+0x14d/0x1e0)
Oct 19 12:58:10 crocodile time.c: Lost 2 timer tick(s)! rip msleep+0x4/0x50)
Oct 19 12:58:10 crocodile time.c: Lost 2 timer tick(s)! rip msleep+0x4/0x50)
Oct 19 13:18:13 crocodile time.c: Lost 1 timer tick(s)! rip 0x2aaaaabcc5db)
Comment 10 Venkatesh Pallipadi 2005-10-19 05:39:36 UTC
Do you have C3 state supported on this system. If no, you don't have to worry
about loosing Local APIC timer tick. 

Lost timer tick seems to be a issue though. may ont be related to this issue.
Can you post the complete dmesg.
Comment 11 Dominik Brodowski 2005-11-16 13:31:20 UTC
@James Pattinson: do you have an AMD k8 system? If so, the bug you're seeing
might be related to bug 5303
Comment 12 Venkatesh Pallipadi 2005-12-12 15:42:08 UTC
We have a newer approach at solving this problem here:

http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0512.1/0300.html


Comment 13 Venkatesh Pallipadi 2005-12-12 15:44:05 UTC
Patches in link at comment #12 has some issues with suspend-resume. The 
attached patches below are updated patches (from the ones sent to mailing 
list) that handle suspend-resume and online-offline properly.

Comment 14 Venkatesh Pallipadi 2005-12-12 15:51:20 UTC
Created attachment 6802 [details]
Patch [1/3] : Remove profiling fine control
Comment 15 Venkatesh Pallipadi 2005-12-12 16:03:10 UTC
Created attachment 6803 [details]
Patch [2/3] : timer broadcast i386
Comment 16 Venkatesh Pallipadi 2005-12-12 16:04:28 UTC
Created attachment 6804 [details]
Patch [3/3] : timer broadcast x86_64
Comment 17 Venkatesh Pallipadi 2005-12-13 09:50:24 UTC
Created attachment 6815 [details]
Patch [2/3] : timer broadcast i386
Comment 18 Venkatesh Pallipadi 2005-12-13 09:51:08 UTC
Created attachment 6816 [details]
Patch [3/3] : timer broadcast x86_64
Comment 19 Len Brown 2006-02-15 18:36:42 UTC
Shipped in 2.6.16-rc3
closing

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