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Impact: Higher priority bug fix The machine check poller runs a single timer and then broadcasted an IPI to all CPUs to check them. This leads to unnecessary synchronization between CPUs. The original CPU running the timer has to wait potentially a long time for all other CPUs answering. This is also real time unfriendly and in general inefficient. This was especially a problem on systems with a lot of events where the poller run with a higher frequency after processing some events. There could be more and more CPU time wasted with this, to the point of significantly slowing down machines. The machine check polling is actually fully independent per CPU, so there's no reason to not just do this all with per CPU timers. This patch implements that. Also switch the poller also to use standard timers instead of work queues. It was using work queues to be able to execute a user program on a event, but mce_notify_user() handles this case now with a separate callback. So instead always run the poll code in in a standard per CPU timer, which means that in the common case of not having to execute a trigger there will be less overhead. This allows to clean up the initialization significantly, because standard timers are already up when machine checks get init'ed. No multiple initialization functions. Thanks to Thomas Gleixner for some help. Cc: thockin@google.com v2: Use del_timer_sync() on cpu shutdown and don't try to handle migrated timers. v3: Add WARN_ON for timer running on unexpected CPU Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> |
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| mce_intel_64.c | ||
| non-fatal.c | ||
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| therm_throt.c | ||
| winchip.c | ||