linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v12 09/11] x86/tsc: prepare for early sched

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Date:   Fri, 29 Jun 2018 04:57:52 -0400
From:   Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...cle.com>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     Steven Sistare <steven.sistare@...cle.com>,
        Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@...cle.com>,
        linux@...linux.org.uk, Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
        Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
        John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>, sboyd@...eaurora.org,
        x86@...nel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        mingo@...hat.com, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        douly.fnst@...fujitsu.com, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Prarit Bhargava <prarit@...hat.com>, feng.tang@...el.com,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>, gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
        linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com,
        boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com, pbonzini@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 09/11] x86/tsc: prepare for early sched_clock

On 18-06-29 09:30:10, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jun 2018, Pavel Tatashin wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 11:23 AM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> 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.

kvm clock  I have fixed in my series.
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180621212518.19914-5-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com

It was late because, it depended on memblock, which is initialized later,
after e820 ranges are read.

So, after my series kvm clock will work right after
init_hypervisor_platform, the same as with most other hypervisors.

With xen, it is a little more challenging: I do not have a hardware
configured to run xen to test it.

On the other hand, most likely that tsc_early_delay_calibrate() now
fails to calibrate tsc on xen, and calibrates correctly later in
tsc_init().  I doubt, that we can use CPUID method to determine tsc
frequency on xen cpu. Anyways, that would be accidental behavior.

To make xen clock available early, we need HYPERVISOR_shared_info. So, at
least that part of xen_setup_shared_info() must be called/available from
init_hypervisor_platform():

void xen_setup_shared_info(void)
{
	set_fixmap(FIX_PARAVIRT_BOOTMAP, xen_start_info->shared_info);

	HYPERVISOR_shared_info =
		(struct shared_info *)fix_to_virt(FIX_PARAVIRT_BOOTMAP);

	xen_setup_mfn_list_list();
	...

Which, I have no idea if it is possible, or safe to do.

For now, in my series, I would like check in tsc_early_init() if we are
running xen, and set tsc_khz to 0 if so. Later in tsc_init() we will get
a proper calibration. The question is how to make this check least
intrusive.

Pavel