x86/msr: Allow rdmsr_safe_on_cpu() to schedule

High latencies can be observed caused by a daemon periodically reading
various MSR on all cpus. On KASAN enabled kernels ~10ms latencies can be
observed simply reading one MSR. Even without KASAN, sending an IPI to a
CPU, which is in a deep sleep state or in a long hard IRQ disabled section,
waiting for the answer can consume hundreds of microseconds.

All usage sites are in preemptible context, convert rdmsr_safe_on_cpu() to
use a completion instead of busy polling.

Overall daemon cpu usage was reduced by 35 %, and latencies caused by
msr_read() disappeared.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180323215818.127774-1-edumazet@google.com

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/msr-smp.c b/arch/x86/lib/msr-smp.c
index 693cce0be82d..761ba062afda 100644
--- a/arch/x86/lib/msr-smp.c
+++ b/arch/x86/lib/msr-smp.c
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 #include <linux/export.h>
 #include <linux/preempt.h>
 #include <linux/smp.h>
+#include <linux/completion.h>
 #include <asm/msr.h>
 
 static void __rdmsr_on_cpu(void *info)
@@ -143,13 +144,19 @@ void wrmsr_on_cpus(const struct cpumask *mask, u32 msr_no, struct msr *msrs)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(wrmsr_on_cpus);
 
+struct msr_info_completion {
+        struct msr_info         msr;
+        struct completion       done;
+};
+
 /* These "safe" variants are slower and should be used when the target MSR
    may not actually exist. */
 static void __rdmsr_safe_on_cpu(void *info)
 {
-        struct msr_info *rv = info;
+        struct msr_info_completion *rv = info;
 
-        rv->err = rdmsr_safe(rv->msr_no, &rv->reg.l, &rv->reg.h);
+        rv->msr.err = rdmsr_safe(rv->msr.msr_no, &rv->msr.reg.l, &rv->msr.reg.h);
+        complete(&rv->done);
 }
 
 static void __wrmsr_safe_on_cpu(void *info)
@@ -161,17 +168,26 @@ static void __wrmsr_safe_on_cpu(void *info)
 
 int rdmsr_safe_on_cpu(unsigned int cpu, u32 msr_no, u32 *l, u32 *h)
 {
+        struct msr_info_completion rv;
+        call_single_data_t csd = {
+                .func   = __rdmsr_safe_on_cpu,
+                .info   = &rv,
+        };
         int err;
-        struct msr_info rv;
 
         memset(&rv, 0, sizeof(rv));
+        init_completion(&rv.done);
+        rv.msr.msr_no = msr_no;
 
-        rv.msr_no = msr_no;
-        err = smp_call_function_single(cpu, __rdmsr_safe_on_cpu, &rv, 1);
-        *l = rv.reg.l;
-        *h = rv.reg.h;
+        err = smp_call_function_single_async(cpu, &csd);
+        if (!err) {
+                wait_for_completion(&rv.done);
+                err = rv.msr.err;
+        }
+        *l = rv.msr.reg.l;
+        *h = rv.msr.reg.h;
 
-        return err ? err : rv.err;
+        return err;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(rdmsr_safe_on_cpu);