Re: Patch "x86/pm: Introduce quirk framework to save/restore extra MSR registers around suspend/resume" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Aug 28 2019 - 11:14:59 EST


On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 07:13:23AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 11:11:55AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 05:00:44PM +0800, Yu Chen wrote:
> > > On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 10:43:51AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 12:12:39AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > > > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> > > > >
> > > > > x86/pm: Introduce quirk framework to save/restore extra MSR registers around suspend/resume
> > > > >
> > > > > to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
> > > > > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
> > > > >
> > > > > The filename of the patch is:
> > > > > x86-pm-introduce-quirk-framework-to-save-restore-ext.patch
> > > > > and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
> > > > >
> > > > > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> > > > > please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > commit d63273440aa0fdebc30d0c931f15f79beb213134
> > > > > Author: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > Date: Wed Nov 25 01:03:41 2015 +0800
> > > > >
> > > > > x86/pm: Introduce quirk framework to save/restore extra MSR registers around suspend/resume
> > > > >
> > > > > A bug was reported that on certain Broadwell platforms, after
> > > > > resuming from S3, the CPU is running at an anomalously low
> > > > > speed.
> > > > >
> > > > > It turns out that the BIOS has modified the value of the
> > > > > THERM_CONTROL register during S3, and changed it from 0 to 0x10,
> > > > > thus enabled clock modulation(bit4), but with undefined CPU Duty
> > > > > Cycle(bit1:3) - which causes the problem.
> > > > >
> > > > > Here is a simple scenario to reproduce the issue:
> > > > >
> > > > > 1. Boot up the system
> > > > > 2. Get MSR 0x19a, it should be 0
> > > > > 3. Put the system into sleep, then wake it up
> > > > > 4. Get MSR 0x19a, it shows 0x10, while it should be 0
> > > > >
> > > > > Although some BIOSen want to change the CPU Duty Cycle during
> > > > > S3, in our case we don't want the BIOS to do any modification.
> > > > >
> > > > > Fix this issue by introducing a more generic x86 framework to
> > > > > save/restore specified MSR registers(THERM_CONTROL in this case)
> > > > > for suspend/resume. This allows us to fix similar bugs in a much
> > > > > simpler way in the future.
> > > > >
> > > > > When the kernel wants to protect certain MSRs during suspending,
> > > > > we simply add a quirk entry in msr_save_dmi_table, and customize
> > > > > the MSR registers inside the quirk callback, for example:
> > > > >
> > > > > u32 msr_id_need_to_save[] = {MSR_ID0, MSR_ID1, MSR_ID2...};
> > > > >
> > > > > and the quirk mechanism ensures that, once resumed from suspend,
> > > > > the MSRs indicated by these IDs will be restored to their
> > > > > original, pre-suspend values.
> > > > >
> > > > > Since both 64-bit and 32-bit kernels are affected, this patch
> > > > > covers the common 64/32-bit suspend/resume code path. And
> > > > > because the MSRs specified by the user might not be available or
> > > > > readable in any situation, we use rdmsrl_safe() to safely save
> > > > > these MSRs.
> > > > >
> > > > > Reported-and-tested-by: Marcin Kaszewski <marcin.kaszewski@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx>
> > > > > Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > Cc: bp@xxxxxxx
> > > > > Cc: len.brown@xxxxxxxxx
> > > > > Cc: linux@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > > > > Cc: luto@xxxxxxxxxx
> > > > > Cc: rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > > > Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c9abdcbc173dd2f57e8990e304376f19287e92ba.1448382971.git.yu.c.chen@xxxxxxxxx
> > > > > [ More edits to the naming of data structures. ]
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >
> > > > No git id of the patch in Linus's tree, or your signed-off-by?
> > > >
> > > I think the commit id in Linus'tree should be 7a9c2dd08eadd5c6943115dbbec040c38d2e0822
> >
> > Ah, and Sasha added it because a later patch needed it :(
> >
> > Sasha, can you fix this patch's headers up to be in the "proper" format?
>
> Yes, I brought it in as a dependency but cherry picked instead of using
> my scripts by mistake. I'll fix up the patch in the queue.

I think you forgot to push your changes to kernel.org :)