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: 30+ 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
2026-08-04 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
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