According to Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures SDM, Volume 3,
Chapter 14.2, "Software needs to exercise care to avoid delays
between the two RDMSRs (for example interrupts)".
So, disable interrupts during reading MSRs IA32_APERF and IA32_MPERF.
See also: commit
4ab60c3f32c7 (cpufreq: intel_pstate: Disable
interrupts during MSRs reading).
Signed-off-by: Doug Smythies <dsmythies@telus.net>
Reviewed-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
struct aperfmperf_sample *s = this_cpu_ptr(&samples);
ktime_t now = ktime_get();
s64 time_delta = ktime_ms_delta(now, s->time);
+ unsigned long flags;
/* Don't bother re-computing within the cache threshold time. */
if (time_delta < APERFMPERF_CACHE_THRESHOLD_MS)
return;
+ local_irq_save(flags);
rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_APERF, aperf);
rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_MPERF, mperf);
+ local_irq_restore(flags);
aperf_delta = aperf - s->aperf;
mperf_delta = mperf - s->mperf;