Re: [PATCH] Hyper-V: fix for unwanted manipulation of sched_clock when TSC marked unstable

[Wei Liu]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 08:35:21AM +0530, Ani Sinha wrote:
> Marking TSC as unstable has a side effect of marking sched_clock as
> unstable when TSC is still being used as the sched_clock. This is not
> desirable. Hyper-V ultimately uses a paravirtualized clock source that
> provides a stable scheduler clock even on systems without TscInvariant
> CPU capability. Hence, mark_tsc_unstable() call should be called _after_
> scheduler clock has been changed to the paravirtualized clocksource. This
> will prevent any unwanted manipulation of the sched_clock. Only TSC will
> be correctly marked as unstable.

Correct me if I'm wrong, what you're trying to address is that
sched_clock remains marked as unstable even after Linux has switched to
a stable clock source.

I think a better approach will be to mark the sched_clock as stable when
we switch to the paravirtualized clock source.

See hyperv_timer.c:hv_setup_sched_clock.

Wei.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Ani Sinha <ani@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mshyperv.c | 8 ++++++--
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mshyperv.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mshyperv.c
> index 22f13343b5da..715458b7729a 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mshyperv.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mshyperv.c
> @@ -370,8 +370,6 @@ static void __init ms_hyperv_init_platform(void)
>  	if (ms_hyperv.features & HV_ACCESS_TSC_INVARIANT) {
>  		wrmsrl(HV_X64_MSR_TSC_INVARIANT_CONTROL, 0x1);
>  		setup_force_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_TSC_RELIABLE);
> -	} else {
> -		mark_tsc_unstable("running on Hyper-V");
>  	}
>  
>  	/*
> @@ -432,6 +430,12 @@ static void __init ms_hyperv_init_platform(void)
>  	/* Register Hyper-V specific clocksource */
>  	hv_init_clocksource();
>  #endif
> +	/* TSC should be marked as unstable only after Hyper-V
> +	 * clocksource has been initialized. This ensures that the
> +	 * stability of the sched_clock is not altered.
> +	 */
> +	if (!(ms_hyperv.features & HV_ACCESS_TSC_INVARIANT))
> +		mark_tsc_unstable("running on Hyper-V");
>  }
>  
>  static bool __init ms_hyperv_x2apic_available(void)
> -- 
> 2.25.1
>