From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To: Doug Covelli <doug.covelli@broadcom.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
x86@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
graf@amazon.de, Ajay Kaher <ajay.kaher@broadcom.com>,
Alexey Makhalov <alexey.makhalov@broadcom.com>,
Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>,
Zack Rusin <zack.rusin@broadcom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] KVM: x86: Provide TSC frequency in "generic" timing infomation CPUID leaf
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2025 14:59:24 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aUHkTBzRqqvsG0LG@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADH9ctCEVJCC+_bZwDETmePhgfVy+jJvSb4Jz6bGLdmL9RSmUA@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Dec 16, 2025, Doug Covelli wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> wrote:
> >
> > +Doug and Zach
> >
> > VMware folks, TL;DR question for you:
> >
> > Does VMware report TSC and APIC bus frequency in CPUID 0x40000010.{EAX,EBX},
> > or at the very least pinky swear not to use those outputs for anything else?
>
> Yes, all 32-bits of 0x40000010.EAX is for TSC frequency and all
> 32-bits of 0x40000010.EBX is for APIC bus frequency.
Nice, thanks much for the confirmation and quick response!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-12-16 22:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-08-16 10:09 [PATCH v2 0/3] Support "generic" CPUID timing leaf as KVM guest and host David Woodhouse
2025-08-16 10:10 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] KVM: x86: Restore caching of KVM CPUID base David Woodhouse
2025-08-16 10:10 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] KVM: x86: Provide TSC frequency in "generic" timing infomation CPUID leaf David Woodhouse
2025-12-16 20:27 ` Sean Christopherson
2025-12-16 21:10 ` Doug Covelli
2025-12-16 22:59 ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
2025-08-16 10:10 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] x86/kvm: Obtain TSC frequency from CPUID if present David Woodhouse
2025-08-21 16:26 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] Support "generic" CPUID timing leaf as KVM guest and host Sean Christopherson
2025-08-21 17:37 ` David Woodhouse
2025-08-21 19:27 ` Sean Christopherson
2025-08-21 20:42 ` David Woodhouse
2025-08-21 20:48 ` Sean Christopherson
2025-08-21 21:10 ` David Woodhouse
2025-08-22 1:57 ` Colin Percival
2025-08-26 19:30 ` Sean Christopherson
2025-08-27 9:30 ` David Woodhouse
2025-08-28 23:40 ` Sean Christopherson
2025-08-29 9:50 ` David Woodhouse
2025-08-29 11:08 ` Durrant, Paul
2025-08-29 11:19 ` David Woodhouse
2025-08-29 20:36 ` Sean Christopherson
2025-09-02 8:31 ` David Woodhouse
2025-09-02 17:49 ` Sean Christopherson
2025-09-02 18:23 ` David Woodhouse
2025-09-04 11:59 ` Sean Christopherson
2025-09-04 12:14 ` David Woodhouse
2025-09-04 13:25 ` Sean Christopherson
2025-09-04 13:51 ` David Woodhouse
2025-09-05 7:57 ` Sean Christopherson
2025-08-22 1:57 ` Colin Percival
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