5 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Duan Yayong
f2a1f66e72 kern/i386/tsc_pmtimer: The GRUB menu gets stuck due to failed calibration
The grub_divmod64() may return 0 but grub_tsc_calibrate_from_pmtimer()
still returns 1 saying calibration succeeded. Of course it is not true.
So, return 0 when grub_divmod64() returns 0. This way other calibration
functions can be called subsequently.

Signed-off-by: Duan Yayong <duanyayong@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Yongqiang <liyongqiang@huaqin.com>
Signed-off-by: Sun Ming <simon.sun@huaqin.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2025-02-26 15:51:04 +01:00
Peter Jones
8812755d97 kern/i386/tsc_pmtimer: Make pmtimer tsc calibration not take 51 seconds to fail
On my laptop running at 2.4GHz, if I run a VM where tsc calibration
using pmtimer will fail presuming a broken pmtimer, it takes ~51 seconds
to do so (as measured with the stopwatch on my phone), with a tsc delta
of 0x1cd1c85300, or around 125 billion cycles.

If instead of trying to wait for 5-200ms to show up on the pmtimer, we
try to wait for 5-200us, it decides it's broken in ~0x2626aa0 TSCs, aka
~2.4 million cycles, or more or less instantly.

Additionally, this reading the pmtimer was returning 0xffffffff anyway,
and that's obviously an invalid return. I've added a check for that and
0 so we don't bother waiting for the test if what we're seeing is dead
pins with no response at all.

If "debug" includes "pmtimer", you will see one of the following three
outcomes. If pmtimer gives all 0 or all 1 bits, you will see:

  pmtimer: 0xffffff bad_reads: 1
  pmtimer: 0xffffff bad_reads: 2
  pmtimer: 0xffffff bad_reads: 3
  pmtimer: 0xffffff bad_reads: 4
  pmtimer: 0xffffff bad_reads: 5
  pmtimer: 0xffffff bad_reads: 6
  pmtimer: 0xffffff bad_reads: 7
  pmtimer: 0xffffff bad_reads: 8
  pmtimer: 0xffffff bad_reads: 9
  pmtimer: 0xffffff bad_reads: 10
  timer is broken; giving up.

This outcome was tested using qemu+kvm with UEFI (OVMF) firmware and
these options: -machine pc-q35-2.10 -cpu Broadwell-noTSX

If pmtimer gives any other bit patterns but is not actually marching
forward fast enough to use for clock calibration, you will see:

  pmtimer delta is 0x0 (1904 iterations)
  tsc delta is implausible: 0x2626aa0

This outcome was tested using GRUB patched to not ignore bad reads using
qemu+kvm with UEFI (OVMF) firmware, and these options:
-machine pc-q35-2.10 -cpu Broadwell-noTSX

If pmtimer actually works, you'll see something like:

  pmtimer delta is 0xdff
  tsc delta is 0x278756

This outcome was tested using qemu+kvm with UEFI (OVMF) firmware, and
these options: -machine pc-i440fx-2.4 -cpu Broadwell-noTSX

I've also tested this outcome on a real Intel Xeon E3-1275v3 on an Intel
Server Board S1200V3RPS using the SDV.RP.B8 "Release" build here:
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download/674448/firmware-update-for-the-intel-server-board-s1200rp-uefi-development-kit-release-vb8.html

Signed-off-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Robbie Harwood <rharwood@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2022-08-10 14:24:46 +02:00
Vladimir Serbinenko
d9a3bfead8 Split pmtimer wait and tsc measurement from pmtimer tsc calibration. 2016-02-12 11:40:51 +01:00
Vladimir Serbinenko
b29638222e Make grub_acpi_find_fadt accessible generically 2016-02-12 11:35:48 +01:00
Vladimir Serbinenko
d43a5ee651 tsc: Use alternative delay sources whenever appropriate.
PIT isn't available on some of new hardware including Hyper-V. So
use pmtimer for calibration. Moreover pmtimer calibration is faster, so
use it on coreboor where booting time is important.

Based on patch by Michael Chang.
2015-11-27 11:39:55 +01:00