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

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Message-ID: <20180628114615.GF2494@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:   Thu, 28 Jun 2018 13:46:15 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...cle.com>,
        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, Prarit Bhargava <prarit@...hat.com>,
        feng.tang@...el.com, Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 09/11] x86/tsc: prepare for early sched_clock

On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 12:43:59PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> 	init_hypervisor_platform()
> 	   vmware:
> 	           Retrieves frequency and store it for the
> 		   calibration function
> 
> 		   khz = vmware_get_khz_magic()
> 		   vmware_tsc_khz = khz
> 		   calibrate_cpu = vmware_get_tsc_khz
> 	   	   calibrate_tsc = vmware_get_tsc_khz
> 		   preset_lpj(khz)
> 
>  	   hyperv:
> 		   if special hyperv MSRs are available:
> 
> 		      calibrate_cpu = hv_get_tsc_khz
> 		      calibrate_tsc = hv_get_tsc_khz
> 
> 		   MSR is readable already in this function
> 
> 	   jailhouse:
> 	   
> 		   Frequency is available in this function and store
> 		   in a variable for the calibration function
> 
> 		   calibrate_cpu	= jailhouse_get_tsc
> 		   calibrate_tsc	= jailhouse_get_tsc
> 
> 	...
> 	
> 	kvmclock_init()
> 
> 		if (magic_conditions)
> 			calibrate_tsc = kvm_get_tsc_khz
> 			calibrate_cpu = kvm_get_tsc_khz
> 
> 			kvm_get_preset_lpj()
> 			   khz = kvm_get_tsc_khz()
> 			   preset_lpj(khz);

Note that all these which get TSC values from a HV _should_ set
X86_FEATURE_TSC_KNOWN_FREQ to avoid the late recalibrate.

Calibrating against a virtual PIT/HPET/PMTIMER is utterly pointless.

> The generic initilizaiton does everything twice, which makes no sense,
> except for the unlikely case were no fast functions are available and the
> quick PIT calibration fails (PMTIMER/HPET) are not available in early
> calibration. HPET 

Incomplete; but I suspect you want to talk about how we can make HPET
available early by putting it in a fixmap.

And only if we fail, do we at a later stage try again using PMTIMER.

Currently it all works by accident, since !hpet and acpi_pm_read_early()
returns 0, but really we should not be running the fallback crap at all
that early.