[PATCH v5 51/51] x86/kvm: Get local APIC bus frequency from PV CPUID Timing Info
From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Date: 2026-07-01 19:33:29
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kvm, linux-coco, linux-doc, lkml, virtualization, xen-devel
Subsystem:
kvm paravirt (kvm/paravirt), the rest, x86 architecture (32-bit and 64-bit) · Maintainers:
Paolo Bonzini, Linus Torvalds, Thomas Gleixner, Ingo Molnar, Borislav Petkov, Dave Hansen
When running as a KVM guest with PV timing info provided by the host, stuff the APIC timer period/frequency with the local APIC bus frequency reported in CPUID.0x40000010.EBX instead of trying to calibrate/guess the frequency. See Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/cpuid.rst for details. Reviewed-by: David Woodhouse <redacted> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> --- arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
index f9a6346077b0..beea0b6aa78e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c@@ -990,7 +990,7 @@ static void __init kvm_init_platform(void) .mask_lo = (u32)(~(SZ_4G - tolud - 1)) | MTRR_PHYSMASK_V, .mask_hi = (BIT_ULL(boot_cpu_data.x86_phys_bits) - 1) >> 32, }; - u32 timing_info_leaf; + u32 timing_info_leaf, apic_khz; bool tsc_is_reliable; if (cc_platform_has(CC_ATTR_GUEST_MEM_ENCRYPT) &&
@@ -1052,6 +1052,11 @@ static void __init kvm_init_platform(void) x86_init.hyper.get_tsc_khz = kvm_get_tsc_khz; x86_init.hyper.get_cpu_khz = kvm_get_tsc_khz; } + + /* The leaf also includes the local APIC bus/timer frequency.*/ + apic_khz = cpuid_ebx(timing_info_leaf); + if (apic_khz) + apic_set_timer_period_khz(apic_khz, "KVM hypervisor"); } /*
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