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authorGlauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>2008-07-28 10:47:53 -0400
committerAvi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>2008-10-15 04:15:17 -0400
commit0293615f3fb9886b6b23800c121be293bb7483e9 (patch)
treee0a4b16ef0af05fb6b0ca90adc1c9b2f9ba067e7 /arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c
parent3807f345b2c610336c17c7624a0d496a38df75a0 (diff)
x86: KVM guest: use paravirt function to calculate cpu khz
We're currently facing timing problems in guests that do calibration under heavy load, and then the load vanishes. This means we'll have a much lower lpj than we actually should, and delays end up taking less time than they should, which is a nasty bug. Solution is to pass on the lpj value from host to guest, and have it preset. Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c30
1 files changed, 30 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c
index d02def06ca91..774ac4991568 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c
@@ -78,6 +78,34 @@ static cycle_t kvm_clock_read(void)
78 return ret; 78 return ret;
79} 79}
80 80
81/*
82 * If we don't do that, there is the possibility that the guest
83 * will calibrate under heavy load - thus, getting a lower lpj -
84 * and execute the delays themselves without load. This is wrong,
85 * because no delay loop can finish beforehand.
86 * Any heuristics is subject to fail, because ultimately, a large
87 * poll of guests can be running and trouble each other. So we preset
88 * lpj here
89 */
90static unsigned long kvm_get_tsc_khz(void)
91{
92 return preset_lpj;
93}
94
95static void kvm_get_preset_lpj(void)
96{
97 struct pvclock_vcpu_time_info *src;
98 unsigned long khz;
99 u64 lpj;
100
101 src = &per_cpu(hv_clock, 0);
102 khz = pvclock_tsc_khz(src);
103
104 lpj = ((u64)khz * 1000);
105 do_div(lpj, HZ);
106 preset_lpj = lpj;
107}
108
81static struct clocksource kvm_clock = { 109static struct clocksource kvm_clock = {
82 .name = "kvm-clock", 110 .name = "kvm-clock",
83 .read = kvm_clock_read, 111 .read = kvm_clock_read,
@@ -153,6 +181,7 @@ void __init kvmclock_init(void)
153 pv_time_ops.get_wallclock = kvm_get_wallclock; 181 pv_time_ops.get_wallclock = kvm_get_wallclock;
154 pv_time_ops.set_wallclock = kvm_set_wallclock; 182 pv_time_ops.set_wallclock = kvm_set_wallclock;
155 pv_time_ops.sched_clock = kvm_clock_read; 183 pv_time_ops.sched_clock = kvm_clock_read;
184 pv_time_ops.get_tsc_khz = kvm_get_tsc_khz;
156#ifdef CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC 185#ifdef CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC
157 pv_apic_ops.setup_secondary_clock = kvm_setup_secondary_clock; 186 pv_apic_ops.setup_secondary_clock = kvm_setup_secondary_clock;
158#endif 187#endif
@@ -163,6 +192,7 @@ void __init kvmclock_init(void)
163#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC 192#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC
164 machine_ops.crash_shutdown = kvm_crash_shutdown; 193 machine_ops.crash_shutdown = kvm_crash_shutdown;
165#endif 194#endif
195 kvm_get_preset_lpj();
166 clocksource_register(&kvm_clock); 196 clocksource_register(&kvm_clock);
167 } 197 }
168} 198}