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Y. Srinivasan" , Haiyang Zhang , Wei Liu , Dexuan Cui , Long Li , Ajay Kaher , Alexey Makhalov , Jan Kiszka , Andy Lutomirski , Peter Zijlstra , Juergen Gross , Daniel Lezcano , John Stultz Cc: Shuah Khan , "H. Peter Anvin" , Vitaly Kuznetsov , Broadcom internal kernel review list , Boris Ostrovsky , Stephen Boyd , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-coco@lists.linux.dev, linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux.dev, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, Tom Lendacky , Nikunj A Dadhania , David Woodhouse , David Woodhouse , Michael Kelley , Thomas Gleixner Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" If CPUID.0x16 is present and valid, use the CPU frequency provided by CPUID instead of assuming that the virtual CPU runs at the same frequency as TSC and/or kvmclock. Back before constant TSCs were a thing, treating the TSC and CPU frequencies as one and the same was somewhat reasonable, but now it's nonsensical, especially if the hypervisor explicitly enumerates the CPU frequency. Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson --- arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c index 1cef54e1e7d9..6c7011ff7bd1 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c @@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ #include =20 static unsigned int kvm_tsc_khz_cpuid __initdata; +static unsigned int kvm_cpu_khz_cpuid __initdata; =20 DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE_RO(kvm_async_pf_enabled); =20 @@ -928,6 +929,11 @@ static unsigned int __init kvm_get_tsc_khz(void) return kvm_tsc_khz_cpuid; } =20 +static unsigned int __init kvm_get_cpu_khz(void) +{ + return kvm_cpu_khz_cpuid; +} + unsigned int kvm_arch_para_features(void) { return cpuid_eax(kvm_cpuid_base() | KVM_CPUID_FEATURES); @@ -1041,6 +1047,14 @@ static void __init kvm_init_platform(void) } } =20 + /* + * Prefer CPUID.0x16 over KVM's PV CPUID when possible, as the base CPU + * frequency isn't necessarily the same as the TSC frequency. + */ + kvm_cpu_khz_cpuid =3D __cpu_khz_from_cpuid(); + if (kvm_cpu_khz_cpuid) + x86_init.hyper.get_cpu_khz =3D kvm_get_cpu_khz; + /* * If the TSC counts at a constant frequency across P/T states and= in * deep C-states, treat the TSC reliable, as guaranteed by KVM. --=20 2.55.0.rc0.799.gd6f94ed593-goog