Thread (1 message) 1 message, 1 author, 2021-09-09

[PATCH AUTOSEL 5.14 019/252] x86/hyperv: fix for unwanted manipulation of sched_clock when TSC marked unstable

From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Date: 2021-09-09 11:42:35
Also in: lkml, stable
Subsystem: hyper-v/azure core and drivers, the rest, x86 architecture (32-bit and 64-bit) · Maintainers: "K. Y. Srinivasan", Haiyang Zhang, Wei Liu, Dexuan Cui, Long Li, Linus Torvalds, Thomas Gleixner, Ingo Molnar, Borislav Petkov, Dave Hansen

From: Ani Sinha <redacted>

[ Upstream commit c445535c3efbfb8cb42d098e624d46ab149664b7 ]

Marking TSC as unstable has a side effect of marking sched_clock as
unstable when TSC is still being used as the sched_clock. This is not
desirable. Hyper-V ultimately uses a paravirtualized clock source that
provides a stable scheduler clock even on systems without TscInvariant
CPU capability. Hence, mark_tsc_unstable() call should be called _after_
scheduler clock has been changed to the paravirtualized clocksource. This
will prevent any unwanted manipulation of the sched_clock. Only TSC will
be correctly marked as unstable.

Signed-off-by: Ani Sinha <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Michael Kelley <redacted>
Tested-by: Michael Kelley <redacted>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210713030522.1714803-1-ani@anisinha.ca (local)
Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mshyperv.c | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mshyperv.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mshyperv.c
index c890d67a64ad..ba54c44a64e2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mshyperv.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mshyperv.c
@@ -375,8 +375,6 @@ static void __init ms_hyperv_init_platform(void)
 	if (ms_hyperv.features & HV_ACCESS_TSC_INVARIANT) {
 		wrmsrl(HV_X64_MSR_TSC_INVARIANT_CONTROL, 0x1);
 		setup_force_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_TSC_RELIABLE);
-	} else {
-		mark_tsc_unstable("running on Hyper-V");
 	}
 
 	/*
@@ -437,6 +435,13 @@ static void __init ms_hyperv_init_platform(void)
 	/* Register Hyper-V specific clocksource */
 	hv_init_clocksource();
 #endif
+	/*
+	 * TSC should be marked as unstable only after Hyper-V
+	 * clocksource has been initialized. This ensures that the
+	 * stability of the sched_clock is not altered.
+	 */
+	if (!(ms_hyperv.features & HV_ACCESS_TSC_INVARIANT))
+		mark_tsc_unstable("running on Hyper-V");
 }
 
 static bool __init ms_hyperv_x2apic_available(void)
-- 
2.30.2
Keyboard shortcuts
hback out one level
jnext message in thread
kprevious message in thread
ldrill in
Escclose help / fold thread tree
?toggle this help