From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Paul Durrant <paul@xen.org>, David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>,
Dongli Zhang <dongli.zhang@oracle.com>
Subject: [PATCH v8 03/17] KVM: x86: Explicitly disable TSC scaling without CONSTANT_TSC
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2026 16:39:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260804233923.3504629-4-seanjc@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260804233923.3504629-1-seanjc@google.com>
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
KVM does make an attempt to cope with non-constant TSC, and has
notifiers to handle host TSC frequency changes. However, it *only*
adjusts the KVM clock, and doesn't adjust TSC frequency scaling when
the host changes.
This is presumably because non-constant TSCs were fixed in hardware
long before TSC scaling was implemented, so there should never be real
CPUs which have TSC scaling but *not* CONSTANT_TSC.
Such a combination could potentially happen in some odd L1 nesting
environment, but it isn't worth trying to support it. Just make the
dependency explicit.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Paul Durrant <paul@xen.org>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
---
arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c | 3 ++-
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c | 10 ++++++++++
2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
index 9d607b98bd06..3057ca7051db 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
@@ -5602,7 +5602,8 @@ static __init int svm_hardware_setup(void)
XFEATURE_MASK_BNDCSR);
if (tsc_scaling) {
- if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_TSCRATEMSR)) {
+ if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_TSCRATEMSR) ||
+ !boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_CONSTANT_TSC)) {
tsc_scaling = false;
} else {
pr_info("TSC scaling supported\n");
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
index e3bfe6aca1a0..9abd2ed3aeae 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
@@ -2841,6 +2841,16 @@ static int setup_vmcs_config(struct vmcs_config *vmcs_conf,
if (!cpu_has_sgx())
_cpu_based_2nd_exec_control &= ~SECONDARY_EXEC_ENCLS_EXITING;
+ /*
+ * KVM doesn't re-derive the TSC scaling ratio when the host TSC
+ * frequency changes, so TSC scaling is only usable with a constant
+ * TSC. Clear the control here rather than in vmx_hardware_setup() so
+ * that the per-CPU configs recomputed by vmx_check_processor_compat()
+ * stay consistent with the golden vmcs_config.
+ */
+ if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_CONSTANT_TSC))
+ _cpu_based_2nd_exec_control &= ~SECONDARY_EXEC_TSC_SCALING;
+
if (_cpu_based_exec_control & CPU_BASED_ACTIVATE_TERTIARY_CONTROLS)
_cpu_based_3rd_exec_control =
adjust_vmx_controls64(KVM_OPTIONAL_VMX_TERTIARY_VM_EXEC_CONTROL,
--
2.55.0.571.g244d577d93-goog
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-04 23:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-04 23:39 [PATCH v8 00/17] KVM: x86: Cleaning up the KVM clock mess, part 1 Sean Christopherson
2026-08-04 23:39 ` [PATCH v8 01/17] KVM: x86: Update "last guest TSC" snapshot prior to enabling IRQs/preemption Sean Christopherson
2026-08-04 23:39 ` [PATCH v8 02/17] KVM: x86: Improve accuracy of KVM clock when TSC scaling is in force Sean Christopherson
2026-08-04 23:39 ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
2026-08-04 23:39 ` [PATCH v8 04/17] KVM: x86: Activate master clock immediately on vCPU creation Sean Christopherson
2026-08-05 0:06 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-05 9:11 ` David Woodhouse
2026-08-05 15:02 ` Sean Christopherson
2026-08-04 23:39 ` [PATCH v8 05/17] KVM: x86: Avoid NTP frequency skew for KVM clock on 32-bit host Sean Christopherson
2026-08-05 0:02 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-05 18:21 ` Sean Christopherson
2026-08-07 0:27 ` Sean Christopherson
2026-08-07 16:01 ` Sean Christopherson
2026-08-07 17:26 ` David Woodhouse
2026-08-08 15:08 ` David Woodhouse
2026-08-04 23:39 ` [PATCH v8 06/17] KVM: x86: Drop unnecessary CPU pinning when computing/getting kvmclock Sean Christopherson
2026-08-04 23:39 ` [PATCH v8 07/17] KVM: x86: Move "no master clock" fallback from __get_kvmclock() to get_kvmclock() Sean Christopherson
2026-08-04 23:52 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-05 15:17 ` Sean Christopherson
2026-08-04 23:39 ` [PATCH v8 08/17] KVM: x86: Wrap all of __get_kvmclock_master_clock() with CONFIG_X86_64=y Sean Christopherson
2026-08-04 23:39 ` [PATCH v8 09/17] KVM: x86: Fall back to non-master-clock if clockread fails in get_kvmclock() Sean Christopherson
2026-08-04 23:39 ` [PATCH v8 10/17] KVM: x86: Fix KVM clock precision in get_kvmclock() with TSC scaling Sean Christopherson
2026-08-04 23:39 ` [PATCH v8 11/17] KVM: x86: Use get_kvmclock() in kvm_get_wall_clock_epoch() Sean Christopherson
2026-08-04 23:39 ` [PATCH v8 12/17] KVM: x86: Fix compute_guest_tsc() to handle negative time deltas Sean Christopherson
2026-08-04 23:39 ` [PATCH v8 13/17] KVM: x86: Disable preemption, not IRQs, when getting TSC+freq pair Sean Christopherson
2026-08-04 23:56 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-05 15:16 ` Sean Christopherson
2026-08-05 15:55 ` David Woodhouse
2026-08-05 16:22 ` Sean Christopherson
2026-08-04 23:39 ` [PATCH v8 14/17] KVM: x86: Make master clock logic in guest PV clock updates 64-bit only Sean Christopherson
2026-08-04 23:39 ` [PATCH v8 15/17] KVM: x86: Upscale TSC to "now", not master clock when updating PV clocks Sean Christopherson
2026-08-04 23:39 ` [PATCH v8 16/17] KVM: x86: Simplify and comment kvm_get_time_scale() Sean Christopherson
2026-08-04 23:39 ` [PATCH v8 17/17] KVM: x86: Remove implicit rdtsc() from kvm_compute_l1_tsc_offset() Sean Christopherson
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20260804233923.3504629-4-seanjc@google.com \
--to=seanjc@google.com \
--cc=dongli.zhang@oracle.com \
--cc=dwmw@amazon.co.uk \
--cc=kvm@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=paul@xen.org \
--cc=pbonzini@redhat.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.