x86: disable preemption in delay_tsc()

Marin Mitov points out that delay_tsc() can misbehave if it is preempted and
rescheduled on a different CPU which has a skewed TSC.  Fix it by disabling
preemption.

(I assume that the worst-case behaviour here is a stall of 2^32 cycles)

Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Marin Mitov <mitov@issp.bas.bg>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/delay_64.c b/arch/x86/lib/delay_64.c
index 0ebbfb9e7c7f..45cdd3fbd91c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/lib/delay_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/lib/delay_64.c
@@ -10,7 +10,9 @@
 
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/sched.h>
+#include <linux/preempt.h>
 #include <linux/delay.h>
+
 #include <asm/delay.h>
 #include <asm/msr.h>
 
@@ -27,14 +29,15 @@ int read_current_timer(unsigned long *timer_value)
 void __delay(unsigned long loops)
 {
         unsigned bclock, now;
-        
+
+        preempt_disable();              /* TSC's are pre-cpu */
         rdtscl(bclock);
-        do
-        {
+        do {
                 rep_nop(); 
                 rdtscl(now);
         }
-        while((now-bclock) < loops);
+        while ((now-bclock) < loops);
+        preempt_enable();
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__delay);