Andrea Parri <parri.and...@gmail.com> writes:
> If the hardware supports TSC scaling, Hyper-V will set bit 15 of the
> HV_PARTITION_PRIVILEGE_MASK in guest VMs with a compatible Hyper-V
> configuration version. Bit 15 corresponds to the
> AccessTscInvariantControls privilege. If this privilege bit is set,
> guests can access the HvSyntheticInvariantTscControl MSR: guests can
> set bit 0 of this synthetic MSR to enable the InvariantTSC feature.
> After setting the synthetic MSR, CPUID will enumerate support for
> InvariantTSC.
I tried getting more information from TLFS but as of 5.0C this feature
is not described there. I'm really interested in why this additional
interface is needed, e.g. why can't Hyper-V just set InvariantTSC
unconditionally when TSC scaling is supported?
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <parri.and...@gmail.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/include/asm/hyperv-tlfs.h | 5 +++++
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mshyperv.c | 7 ++++++-
> 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/hyperv-tlfs.h
> b/arch/x86/include/asm/hyperv-tlfs.h
> index 7741e211f7f51..5f10f7f2098db 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/hyperv-tlfs.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/hyperv-tlfs.h
> @@ -86,6 +86,8 @@
> #define HV_X64_ACCESS_FREQUENCY_MSRS BIT(11)
> /* AccessReenlightenmentControls privilege */
> #define HV_X64_ACCESS_REENLIGHTENMENT BIT(13)
> +/* AccessTscInvariantControls privilege */
> +#define HV_X64_ACCESS_TSC_INVARIANT BIT(15)
>
> /*
> * Feature identification: indicates which flags were specified at partition
> @@ -278,6 +280,9 @@
> #define HV_X64_MSR_TSC_EMULATION_CONTROL 0x40000107
> #define HV_X64_MSR_TSC_EMULATION_STATUS 0x40000108
>
> +/* TSC invariant control */
> +#define HV_X64_MSR_TSC_INVARIANT_CONTROL 0x40000118
> +
> /*
> * Declare the MSR used to setup pages used to communicate with the
> hypervisor.
> */
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mshyperv.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mshyperv.c
> index 267daad8c0360..105844d542e5c 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mshyperv.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mshyperv.c
> @@ -286,7 +286,12 @@ static void __init ms_hyperv_init_platform(void)
> machine_ops.shutdown = hv_machine_shutdown;
> machine_ops.crash_shutdown = hv_machine_crash_shutdown;
> #endif
> - mark_tsc_unstable("running on Hyper-V");
> + if (ms_hyperv.features & HV_X64_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");
> + }
>
> /*
> * Generation 2 instances don't support reading the NMI status from
--
Vitaly
