[PATCH 5/5] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Implement a clocksource based on the TSC page

KY Srinivasan kys at microsoft.com
Mon Jul 20 18:50:52 UTC 2015



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dexuan Cui
> Sent: Monday, July 20, 2015 5:14 AM
> To: KY Srinivasan; gregkh at linuxfoundation.org; linux-
> kernel at vger.kernel.org; devel at linuxdriverproject.org; olaf at aepfle.de;
> apw at canonical.com; vkuznets at redhat.com; jasowang at redhat.com
> Subject: RE: [PATCH 5/5] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Implement a clocksource based
> on the TSC page
> 
> > From: devel [mailto:driverdev-devel-bounces...linuxdriverproject.org] On
> Behalf
> > Of K. Y. Srinivasan
> > Sent: Monday, July 20, 2015 11:37
> >
> > The current Hyper-V clock source is based on the per-partition reference
> counter
> > and this counter is being accessed via s synthetic MSR -
> > HV_X64_MSR_TIME_REF_COUNT.
> > Hyper-V has a more efficient way of computing the per-partition reference
> > counter value that does not involve reading a synthetic MSR. We
> implement
> > a time source based on this mechanism.
> > ...
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/hyperv.h
> > @@ -183,6 +233,22 @@ int hv_init(void)
> >
> >  	hv_context.hypercall_page = virtaddr;
> >
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
> > +	if (ms_hyperv.features &
> HV_X64_MSR_REFERENCE_TSC_AVAILABLE) {
> > +		va_tsc = __vmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL,
> PAGE_KERNEL);
> > +		if (!va_tsc)
> > +			goto cleanup;
> > +		hv_context.tsc_page = va_tsc;
> > +
> > +		rdmsrl(HV_X64_MSR_REFERENCE_TSC, tsc_msr.as_uint64);
> > +
> > +		tsc_msr.enable = 1;
> > +		tsc_msr.guest_physical_address = vmalloc_to_pfn(va_tsc);
> > +
> > +		wrmsrl(HV_X64_MSR_REFERENCE_TSC, tsc_msr.as_uint64);
> > +		clocksource_register_hz(&hyperv_cs_tsc,
> NSEC_PER_SEC/100);
> > +	}
> > +#endif
> 
> Should we disable the mechanism and vfree() the page in hv_cleanup() for
> kexec/kdump?

Thanks Dexuan. I will update the patch and resend.

Regards,

K. Y
> 
> -- Dexuan


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