[PATCH v2 2/2] hyper-v: read TSC frequency from a synthetic MSR

From: Vitaly Kuznetsov
Date: Thu Jun 22 2017 - 06:08:00 EST


It was found that SMI_TRESHOLD of 50000 is not enough for Hyper-V
guests in nested environment and falling back to counting jiffies
is not an option for Gen2 guests as they don't have PIT. As Hyper-V
provides TSC frequency in a synthetic MSR we can just use this information
instead of doing a error prone calibration.

Reported-by: Ladi Prosek <lprosek@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Ladi Prosek <lprosek@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mshyperv.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mshyperv.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mshyperv.c
index 3563c8e..200c521 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mshyperv.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mshyperv.c
@@ -161,6 +161,15 @@ static int hv_nmi_unknown(unsigned int val, struct pt_regs *regs)
}
#endif

+static unsigned long hv_get_tsc_khz(void)
+{
+ unsigned long freq;
+
+ rdmsrl(HV_X64_MSR_TSC_FREQUENCY, freq);
+
+ return freq/1000;
+}
+
static void __init ms_hyperv_init_platform(void)
{
int hv_host_info_eax;
@@ -193,6 +202,12 @@ static void __init ms_hyperv_init_platform(void)
hv_host_info_edx >> 24, hv_host_info_edx & 0xFFFFFF);
}

+ if (ms_hyperv.features & HV_X64_ACCESS_FREQUENCY_MSRS &&
+ ms_hyperv.misc_features & HV_FEATURE_FREQUENCY_MSRS_AVAILABLE) {
+ x86_platform.calibrate_tsc = hv_get_tsc_khz;
+ x86_platform.calibrate_cpu = hv_get_tsc_khz;
+ }
+
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC
if (ms_hyperv.features & HV_X64_ACCESS_FREQUENCY_MSRS &&
ms_hyperv.misc_features & HV_FEATURE_FREQUENCY_MSRS_AVAILABLE) {
--
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