linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.17 278/324] kvmclock: fix TSC calibration for nested guests

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Message-Id: <20180823075009.864165972@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Thu, 23 Aug 2018 09:55:44 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Peng Hao <peng.hao2@....com.cn>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...rosoft.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.17 278/324] kvmclock: fix TSC calibration for nested guests

4.17-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Peng Hao <peng.hao2@....com.cn>

[ Upstream commit e10f7805032365cc11c739a97f226ebb48aee042 ]

Inside a nested guest, access to hardware can be slow enough that
tsc_read_refs always return ULLONG_MAX, causing tsc_refine_calibration_work
to be called periodically and the nested guest to spend a lot of time
reading the ACPI timer.

However, if the TSC frequency is available from the pvclock page,
we can just set X86_FEATURE_TSC_KNOWN_FREQ and avoid the recalibration.
'refine' operation.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Signed-off-by: Peng Hao <peng.hao2@....com.cn>
[Commit message rewritten. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...rosoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c
@@ -138,6 +138,7 @@ static unsigned long kvm_get_tsc_khz(voi
 	src = &hv_clock[cpu].pvti;
 	tsc_khz = pvclock_tsc_khz(src);
 	put_cpu();
+	setup_force_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_TSC_KNOWN_FREQ);
 	return tsc_khz;
 }