kvmclock: fix TSC calibration for nested guests
authorPeng Hao <peng.hao2@zte.com.cn>
Sat, 14 Jul 2018 15:28:29 +0000 (23:28 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 24 Aug 2018 11:07:12 +0000 (13:07 +0200)
commit1ba4f24d19bd636537859226086c63ec73a50a6c
treeb34e4dd803fa0f525a06c45a37fb15404fa8eafb
parent80e3c217d1ba398f204a6e84d7be3a2ec066b696
kvmclock: fix TSC calibration for nested guests

[ Upstream commit e10f7805032365cc11c739a97f226ebb48aee042 ]

Inside a nested guest, access to hardware can be slow enough that
tsc_read_refs always return ULLONG_MAX, causing tsc_refine_calibration_work
to be called periodically and the nested guest to spend a lot of time
reading the ACPI timer.

However, if the TSC frequency is available from the pvclock page,
we can just set X86_FEATURE_TSC_KNOWN_FREQ and avoid the recalibration.
'refine' operation.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Peng Hao <peng.hao2@zte.com.cn>
[Commit message rewritten. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c