GHES: Make NMI handler have a single reader
authorJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Fri, 27 Mar 2015 09:05:00 +0000 (10:05 +0100)
committerBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Mon, 27 Apr 2015 19:35:33 +0000 (21:35 +0200)
Since GHES sources are global, we theoretically need only a single CPU
reading them per NMI instead of a thundering herd of CPUs waiting on a
spinlock in NMI context for no reason at all.

Do that.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c

index 94a44ba..2bfd53c 100644 (file)
@@ -729,10 +729,10 @@ static struct llist_head ghes_estatus_llist;
 static struct irq_work ghes_proc_irq_work;
 
 /*
- * NMI may be triggered on any CPU, so ghes_nmi_lock is used for
- * mutual exclusion.
+ * NMI may be triggered on any CPU, so ghes_in_nmi is used for
+ * having only one concurrent reader.
  */
-static DEFINE_RAW_SPINLOCK(ghes_nmi_lock);
+static atomic_t ghes_in_nmi = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
 
 static LIST_HEAD(ghes_nmi);
 
@@ -840,7 +840,9 @@ static int ghes_notify_nmi(unsigned int cmd, struct pt_regs *regs)
        struct ghes *ghes;
        int sev, ret = NMI_DONE;
 
-       raw_spin_lock(&ghes_nmi_lock);
+       if (!atomic_add_unless(&ghes_in_nmi, 1, 1))
+               return ret;
+
        list_for_each_entry_rcu(ghes, &ghes_nmi, list) {
                if (ghes_read_estatus(ghes, 1)) {
                        ghes_clear_estatus(ghes);
@@ -863,7 +865,7 @@ static int ghes_notify_nmi(unsigned int cmd, struct pt_regs *regs)
 #ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
        irq_work_queue(&ghes_proc_irq_work);
 #endif
-       raw_spin_unlock(&ghes_nmi_lock);
+       atomic_dec(&ghes_in_nmi);
        return ret;
 }