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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/lib/tsc_timer.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/lib/tsc_timer.c | 156 |
1 files changed, 156 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/tsc_timer.c b/arch/x86/lib/tsc_timer.c index 7cdde4a23a..ceff60c40e 100644 --- a/arch/x86/lib/tsc_timer.c +++ b/arch/x86/lib/tsc_timer.c @@ -116,6 +116,158 @@ fail: return 0; } +/* + * This reads the current MSB of the PIT counter, and + * checks if we are running on sufficiently fast and + * non-virtualized hardware. + * + * Our expectations are: + * + * - the PIT is running at roughly 1.19MHz + * + * - each IO is going to take about 1us on real hardware, + * but we allow it to be much faster (by a factor of 10) or + * _slightly_ slower (ie we allow up to a 2us read+counter + * update - anything else implies a unacceptably slow CPU + * or PIT for the fast calibration to work. + * + * - with 256 PIT ticks to read the value, we have 214us to + * see the same MSB (and overhead like doing a single TSC + * read per MSB value etc). + * + * - We're doing 2 reads per loop (LSB, MSB), and we expect + * them each to take about a microsecond on real hardware. + * So we expect a count value of around 100. But we'll be + * generous, and accept anything over 50. + * + * - if the PIT is stuck, and we see *many* more reads, we + * return early (and the next caller of pit_expect_msb() + * then consider it a failure when they don't see the + * next expected value). + * + * These expectations mean that we know that we have seen the + * transition from one expected value to another with a fairly + * high accuracy, and we didn't miss any events. We can thus + * use the TSC value at the transitions to calculate a pretty + * good value for the TSC frequencty. + */ +static inline int pit_verify_msb(unsigned char val) +{ + /* Ignore LSB */ + inb(0x42); + return inb(0x42) == val; +} + +static inline int pit_expect_msb(unsigned char val, u64 *tscp, + unsigned long *deltap) +{ + int count; + u64 tsc = 0, prev_tsc = 0; + + for (count = 0; count < 50000; count++) { + if (!pit_verify_msb(val)) + break; + prev_tsc = tsc; + tsc = rdtsc(); + } + *deltap = rdtsc() - prev_tsc; + *tscp = tsc; + + /* + * We require _some_ success, but the quality control + * will be based on the error terms on the TSC values. + */ + return count > 5; +} + +/* + * How many MSB values do we want to see? We aim for + * a maximum error rate of 500ppm (in practice the + * real error is much smaller), but refuse to spend + * more than 50ms on it. + */ +#define MAX_QUICK_PIT_MS 50 +#define MAX_QUICK_PIT_ITERATIONS (MAX_QUICK_PIT_MS * PIT_TICK_RATE / 1000 / 256) + +static unsigned long quick_pit_calibrate(void) +{ + int i; + u64 tsc, delta; + unsigned long d1, d2; + + /* Set the Gate high, disable speaker */ + outb((inb(0x61) & ~0x02) | 0x01, 0x61); + + /* + * Counter 2, mode 0 (one-shot), binary count + * + * NOTE! Mode 2 decrements by two (and then the + * output is flipped each time, giving the same + * final output frequency as a decrement-by-one), + * so mode 0 is much better when looking at the + * individual counts. + */ + outb(0xb0, 0x43); + + /* Start at 0xffff */ + outb(0xff, 0x42); + outb(0xff, 0x42); + + /* + * The PIT starts counting at the next edge, so we + * need to delay for a microsecond. The easiest way + * to do that is to just read back the 16-bit counter + * once from the PIT. + */ + pit_verify_msb(0); + + if (pit_expect_msb(0xff, &tsc, &d1)) { + for (i = 1; i <= MAX_QUICK_PIT_ITERATIONS; i++) { + if (!pit_expect_msb(0xff-i, &delta, &d2)) + break; + + /* + * Iterate until the error is less than 500 ppm + */ + delta -= tsc; + if (d1+d2 >= delta >> 11) + continue; + + /* + * Check the PIT one more time to verify that + * all TSC reads were stable wrt the PIT. + * + * This also guarantees serialization of the + * last cycle read ('d2') in pit_expect_msb. + */ + if (!pit_verify_msb(0xfe - i)) + break; + goto success; + } + } + debug("Fast TSC calibration failed\n"); + return 0; + +success: + /* + * Ok, if we get here, then we've seen the + * MSB of the PIT decrement 'i' times, and the + * error has shrunk to less than 500 ppm. + * + * As a result, we can depend on there not being + * any odd delays anywhere, and the TSC reads are + * reliable (within the error). + * + * kHz = ticks / time-in-seconds / 1000; + * kHz = (t2 - t1) / (I * 256 / PIT_TICK_RATE) / 1000 + * kHz = ((t2 - t1) * PIT_TICK_RATE) / (I * 256 * 1000) + */ + delta *= PIT_TICK_RATE; + delta /= (i*256*1000); + debug("Fast TSC calibration using PIT\n"); + return delta / 1000; +} + void timer_set_base(u64 base) { gd->arch.tsc_base = base; @@ -142,6 +294,10 @@ unsigned __attribute__((no_instrument_function)) long get_tbclk_mhz(void) unsigned long fast_calibrate; fast_calibrate = try_msr_calibrate_tsc(); + if (fast_calibrate) + return fast_calibrate; + + fast_calibrate = quick_pit_calibrate(); if (!fast_calibrate) panic("TSC frequency is ZERO"); |