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Subject: [PATCH v3 35/41] x86/kvmclock: Obtain TSC frequency from CPUID if present
Date: Fri, 15 May 2026 12:19:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260515191942.1892718-36-seanjc@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260515191942.1892718-1-seanjc@google.com>
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
In https://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/1/246 a proposal was made for generic
CPUID conventions across hypervisors. It was mostly shot down in flames,
but the leaf at 0x40000010 containing timing information didn't die.
It's used by XNU and FreeBSD guests under all hypervisors¹² to determine
the TSC frequency, and also exposed by the EC2 Nitro hypervisor (as
well as, presumably, VMware). FreeBSD's Bhyve is probably just about
to start exposing it too.
Use it under KVM to obtain the TSC frequency more accurately, instead
of reverse-calculating the frequency from the mul/shift values in the
KVM clock.
Before:
[ 0.000020] tsc: Detected 2900.014 MHz processor
After:
[ 0.000020] tsc: Detected 2900.015 MHz processor
$ cpuid -1 -l 0x40000010
CPU:
hypervisor generic timing information (0x40000010):
TSC frequency (Hz) = 2900015
bus frequency (Hz) = 1000000
¹ https://github.com/apple/darwin-xnu/blob/main/osfmk/i386/cpuid.c
² https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/commit/4a432614f68
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h | 1 +
arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c | 10 ++++++++++
arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c | 6 +++++-
3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h
index 17053d2bf270..3f7f558b5b24 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h
@@ -129,6 +129,7 @@ enum kvm_guest_cpu_action {
void kvmclock_init(void);
void kvmclock_cpu_action(enum kvm_guest_cpu_action action);
bool kvm_para_available(void);
+unsigned int kvm_para_tsc_khz(void);
unsigned int kvm_arch_para_features(void);
unsigned int kvm_arch_para_hints(void);
void kvm_async_pf_task_wait_schedule(u32 token);
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
index 65c787b1ea03..5cd92a0b156a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
@@ -918,6 +918,16 @@ bool kvm_para_available(void)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_para_available);
+unsigned int kvm_para_tsc_khz(void)
+{
+ u32 base = kvm_cpuid_base();
+
+ if (cpuid_eax(base) >= (base | KVM_CPUID_TIMING_INFO))
+ return cpuid_eax(base | KVM_CPUID_TIMING_INFO);
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
unsigned int kvm_arch_para_features(void)
{
return cpuid_eax(kvm_cpuid_base() | KVM_CPUID_FEATURES);
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c
index 47f7df1e81a0..5ceba4f3836c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c
@@ -200,7 +200,11 @@ void kvmclock_cpu_action(enum kvm_guest_cpu_action action)
*/
static unsigned long kvm_get_tsc_khz(void)
{
- return pvclock_tsc_khz(this_cpu_pvti());
+ /*
+ * If KVM advertises the frequency directly in CPUID, use that
+ * instead of reverse-calculating it from the KVM clock data.
+ */
+ return kvm_para_tsc_khz() ? : pvclock_tsc_khz(this_cpu_pvti());
}
static void __init kvm_get_preset_lpj(void)
--
2.54.0.563.g4f69b47b94-goog
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-15 19:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-15 19:19 [PATCH v3 00/41] x86: Try to wrangle PV clocks vs. TSC Sean Christopherson
2026-05-15 19:19 ` [PATCH v3 01/41] x86/tsc: Add a standalone helpers for getting TSC info from CPUID.0x15 Sean Christopherson
2026-05-15 19:19 ` [PATCH v3 02/41] x86/tsc: Add helper to register CPU and TSC freq calibration routines Sean Christopherson
2026-05-15 20:06 ` sashiko-bot
2026-05-15 19:19 ` [PATCH v3 03/41] x86/sev: Mark TSC as reliable when configuring Secure TSC Sean Christopherson
2026-05-15 19:19 ` [PATCH v3 04/41] x86/sev: Move check for SNP Secure TSC support to tsc_early_init() Sean Christopherson
2026-05-15 19:19 ` [PATCH v3 05/41] x86/tdx: Override PV calibration routines with CPUID-based calibration Sean Christopherson
2026-05-15 19:19 ` [PATCH v3 06/41] x86/acrn: Mark TSC frequency as known when using ACRN for calibration Sean Christopherson
2026-05-15 19:19 ` [PATCH v3 07/41] clocksource: hyper-v: Register sched_clock save/restore iff it's necessary Sean Christopherson
2026-05-15 19:19 ` [PATCH v3 08/41] clocksource: hyper-v: Drop wrappers to sched_clock save/restore helpers Sean Christopherson
2026-05-15 19:19 ` [PATCH v3 09/41] clocksource: hyper-v: Don't save/restore TSC offset when using HV sched_clock Sean Christopherson
2026-05-15 19:19 ` [PATCH v3 10/41] x86/kvmclock: Setup kvmclock for secondary CPUs iff CONFIG_SMP=y Sean Christopherson
2026-05-15 19:19 ` [PATCH v3 11/41] x86/kvm: Don't disable kvmclock on BSP in syscore_suspend() Sean Christopherson
2026-05-15 20:34 ` sashiko-bot
2026-05-15 22:29 ` Sean Christopherson
2026-05-15 19:19 ` [PATCH v3 12/41] x86/paravirt: Remove unnecessary PARAVIRT=n stub for paravirt_set_sched_clock() Sean Christopherson
2026-05-15 19:19 ` [PATCH v3 13/41] x86/paravirt: Move handling of unstable PV clocks into paravirt_set_sched_clock() Sean Christopherson
2026-05-15 19:19 ` [PATCH v3 14/41] x86/kvmclock: Move sched_clock save/restore helpers up in kvmclock.c Sean Christopherson
2026-05-15 19:19 ` [PATCH v3 15/41] x86/xen/time: Nullify x86_platform's sched_clock save/restore hooks Sean Christopherson
2026-05-15 19:48 ` sashiko-bot
2026-05-15 22:43 ` Sean Christopherson
2026-05-15 19:19 ` [PATCH v3 16/41] x86/vmware: Nullify save/restore hooks when using VMware's sched_clock Sean Christopherson
2026-05-15 19:42 ` sashiko-bot
2026-05-15 19:19 ` [PATCH v3 17/41] x86/tsc: WARN if TSC sched_clock save/restore used with PV sched_clock Sean Christopherson
2026-05-15 19:55 ` sashiko-bot
2026-05-15 19:19 ` [PATCH v3 18/41] x86/paravirt: Pass sched_clock save/restore helpers during registration Sean Christopherson
2026-05-15 19:56 ` sashiko-bot
2026-05-15 19:19 ` [PATCH v3 19/41] x86/kvmclock: Move kvm_sched_clock_init() down in kvmclock.c Sean Christopherson
2026-05-15 19:19 ` [PATCH v3 20/41] x86/xen/time: Mark xen_setup_vsyscall_time_info() as __init Sean Christopherson
2026-05-15 19:19 ` [PATCH v3 21/41] x86/pvclock: Mark setup helpers and related various as __init/__ro_after_init Sean Christopherson
2026-05-15 19:19 ` [PATCH v3 22/41] x86/pvclock: WARN if pvclock's valid_flags are overwritten Sean Christopherson
2026-05-15 19:19 ` [PATCH v3 23/41] x86/kvmclock: Refactor handling of PVCLOCK_TSC_STABLE_BIT during kvmclock_init() Sean Christopherson
2026-05-15 19:19 ` [PATCH v3 24/41] timekeeping: Resume clocksources before reading persistent clock Sean Christopherson
2026-05-15 19:19 ` [PATCH v3 25/41] x86/kvmclock: Hook clocksource.suspend/resume when kvmclock isn't sched_clock Sean Christopherson
2026-05-15 19:19 ` [PATCH v3 26/41] x86/kvmclock: WARN if wall clock is read while kvmclock is suspended Sean Christopherson
2026-05-15 19:19 ` [PATCH v3 27/41] x86/kvmclock: Enable kvmclock on APs during onlining if kvmclock isn't sched_clock Sean Christopherson
2026-05-15 19:47 ` sashiko-bot
2026-05-15 19:19 ` [PATCH v3 28/41] x86/paravirt: Mark __paravirt_set_sched_clock() as __init Sean Christopherson
2026-05-15 19:19 ` [PATCH v3 29/41] x86/paravirt: Plumb a return code into __paravirt_set_sched_clock() Sean Christopherson
2026-05-15 19:48 ` sashiko-bot
2026-05-15 19:19 ` [PATCH v3 30/41] x86/paravirt: Don't use a PV sched_clock in CoCo guests with trusted TSC Sean Christopherson
2026-05-15 19:19 ` [PATCH v3 31/41] x86/tsc: Pass KNOWN_FREQ and RELIABLE as params to registration Sean Christopherson
2026-05-15 19:45 ` sashiko-bot
2026-05-15 19:19 ` [PATCH v3 32/41] x86/tsc: Rejects attempts to override TSC calibration with lesser routine Sean Christopherson
2026-05-15 20:16 ` sashiko-bot
2026-05-15 19:19 ` [PATCH v3 33/41] x86/kvmclock: Mark TSC as reliable when it's constant and nonstop Sean Christopherson
2026-05-15 19:19 ` [PATCH v3 34/41] KVM: x86: Officially define CPUID 0x40000010 as PV Timing Info (TSC and Bus) Sean Christopherson
2026-05-15 19:19 ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
2026-05-15 19:19 ` [PATCH v3 36/41] x86/kvmclock: Get local APIC bus frequency from PV CPUID Timing Info Sean Christopherson
2026-05-15 19:55 ` sashiko-bot
2026-05-15 19:19 ` [PATCH v3 37/41] x86/kvmclock: Use TSC for sched_clock if it's constant and non-stop Sean Christopherson
2026-05-15 20:09 ` sashiko-bot
2026-05-15 19:19 ` [PATCH v3 38/41] x86/paravirt: kvmclock: Setup kvmclock early iff it's sched_clock Sean Christopherson
2026-05-15 19:19 ` [PATCH v3 39/41] x86/paravirt: Move using_native_sched_clock() stub into timer.h Sean Christopherson
2026-05-15 19:19 ` [PATCH v3 40/41] x86/tsc: Add standalone helper for getting CPU frequency from CPUID Sean Christopherson
2026-05-15 19:51 ` sashiko-bot
2026-05-15 23:04 ` Sean Christopherson
2026-05-15 19:19 ` [PATCH v3 41/41] x86/kvmclock: Get CPU base frequency from CPUID when it's available Sean Christopherson
2026-05-15 19:59 ` sashiko-bot
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