x86/intel: workaround several MONITOR/MWAIT errata

There are several errata on Intel regarding the usage of the MONITOR/MWAIT
instructions, all having in common that stores to the monitored region
might not wake up the CPU.

Fix them by forcing the sending of an IPI for the affected models.

The Ice Lake issue has been reproduced internally on XenServer hardware,
and the fix does seem to prevent it.  The symptom was APs getting stuck in
the idle loop immediately after bring up, which in turn prevented the BSP
from making progress.  This would happen before the watchdog was
initialized, and hence the whole system would get stuck.

Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
master commit: 4aae4452efeee3d3bba092b875e37d1e7c8f6db9
master date: 2025-04-23 16:12:25 +0200

diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/acpi/cpu_idle.c b/xen/arch/x86/acpi/cpu_idle.c
index 52808f980993355c0945f13cafc96a57ee91d0d2..d0607d8a6952477a1f0314b0317fa96cb9e39e58 100644 (file)
--- a/xen/arch/x86/acpi/cpu_idle.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/acpi/cpu_idle.c
@@ -453,8 +453,14 @@ void cpuidle_wakeup_mwait(cpumask_t *mask)
     cpumask_andnot(mask, mask, &target);
 }
 
+/* Force sending of a wakeup IPI regardless of mwait usage. */
+bool __ro_after_init force_mwait_ipi_wakeup;
+
 bool arch_skip_send_event_check(unsigned int cpu)
 {
+    if ( force_mwait_ipi_wakeup )
+        return false;
+
     /*
      * This relies on softirq_pending() and mwait_wakeup() to access data
      * on the same cache line.

diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/cpu/intel.c b/xen/arch/x86/cpu/intel.c
index bb9c6220de80228dc1266114f2ca97b06e7eb823..74d10c93d8395deeb2a693a83382d0655a8a9e17 100644 (file)
--- a/xen/arch/x86/cpu/intel.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/cpu/intel.c
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 #include <asm/intel-family.h>
 #include <asm/processor.h>
 #include <asm/msr.h>
+#include <asm/mwait.h>
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 #include <asm/mpspec.h>
 #include <asm/apic.h>
@@ -368,7 +369,6 @@ static void probe_c3_errata(const struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
         INTEL_FAM6_MODEL(0x25),
         { }
     };
-#undef INTEL_FAM6_MODEL
 
     /* Serialized by the AP bringup code. */
     if ( max_cstate > 1 && (c->apicid & (c->x86_num_siblings - 1)) &&
@@ -380,6 +380,38 @@ static void probe_c3_errata(const struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
     }
 }
 
+/*
+ * APL30: One use of the MONITOR/MWAIT instruction pair is to allow a logical
+ * processor to wait in a sleep state until a store to the armed address range
+ * occurs. Due to this erratum, stores to the armed address range may not
+ * trigger MWAIT to resume execution.
+ *
+ * ICX143: Under complex microarchitectural conditions, a monitor that is armed
+ * with the MWAIT instruction may not be triggered, leading to a processor
+ * hang.
+ *
+ * LNL030: Problem P-cores may not exit power state Core C6 on monitor hit.
+ *
+ * Force the sending of an IPI in those cases.
+ */
+static void __init probe_mwait_errata(void)
+{
+    static const struct x86_cpu_id __initconst models[] = {
+        INTEL_FAM6_MODEL(INTEL_FAM6_ATOM_GOLDMONT), /* APL30  */
+        INTEL_FAM6_MODEL(INTEL_FAM6_ICELAKE_X),     /* ICX143 */
+        INTEL_FAM6_MODEL(INTEL_FAM6_LUNARLAKE_M),   /* LNL030 */
+        { }
+    };
+#undef INTEL_FAM6_MODEL
+
+    if ( boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_MONITOR) && x86_match_cpu(models) )
+    {
+        printk(XENLOG_WARNING
+               "Forcing IPI MWAIT wakeup due to CPU erratum\n");
+        force_mwait_ipi_wakeup = true;
+    }
+}
+
 /*
  * P4 Xeon errata 037 workaround.
  * Hardware prefetcher may cause stale data to be loaded into the cache.
@@ -406,6 +438,8 @@ static void Intel_errata_workarounds(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
                __set_bit(X86_FEATURE_CLFLUSH_MONITOR, c->x86_capability);
 
        probe_c3_errata(c);
+       if (system_state < SYS_STATE_smp_boot)
+               probe_mwait_errata();
 }
 
 

diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/include/asm/mwait.h b/xen/arch/x86/include/asm/mwait.h
index 9298f987c4355fd1d6898512368092393922f55c..1f1e39775b99244cc5901106ab77a2531c403d59 100644 (file)
--- a/xen/arch/x86/include/asm/mwait.h
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/include/asm/mwait.h
@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@
 
 #define MWAIT_ECX_INTERRUPT_BREAK      0x1
 
+/* Force sending of a wakeup IPI regardless of mwait usage. */
+extern bool force_mwait_ipi_wakeup;
+
 void mwait_idle_with_hints(unsigned int eax, unsigned int ecx);
 bool mwait_pc10_supported(void);