Re: [PATCH v12 09/11] x86/tsc: prepare for early sched_clock

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk]

On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 09:30:10AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jun 2018, Pavel Tatashin wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 11:23 AM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi Thomas,
> > 
> > In addition to above, we have xen hvm:
> > 
> > setup_arch()
> >     ...
> >     init_hypervisor_platform();
> >         x86_init.hyper.init_platform();
> >             xen_hvm_guest_init()
> >                 xen_hvm_init_time_ops();
> 
> Duh. Missed that completely.
> 
> >     ...
> >     tsc_early_delay_calibrate();
> >         tsc_khz = x86_platform.calibrate_tsc(); == xen_tsc_khz()
> >     ...
> > 
> > Which works early.
> > 
> > So, what should we do with xen, which seems to be the only platform
> > that would provide different tsc frequency early and late, because of
> > different calibration method?
> 
> Fix it? I have no idea why XEN has two variants of the scheme and I neither
> have a clue why the KVM clock stuff is late.

Added Juergen (Xen).
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 	tglx
>