x86/msr: Allow rdmsr_safe_on_cpu() to schedule

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High latencies can be observed caused by a daemon periodically reading
various MSR on all cpus. On KASAN enabled kernels ~10ms latencies can be
observed simply reading one MSR. Even without KASAN, sending an IPI to a
CPU, which is in a deep sleep state or in a long hard IRQ disabled section,
waiting for the answer can consume hundreds of microseconds.

All usage sites are in preemptible context, convert rdmsr_safe_on_cpu() to
use a completion instead of busy polling.

Overall daemon cpu usage was reduced by 35 %, and latencies caused by
msr_read() disappeared.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180323215818.127774-1-edumazet@google.com

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Eric Dumazet 2018-03-23 14:58:17 -07:00 • committed by Thomas Gleixner

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