Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 4/4] i386/kvm: advertise Hyper-V frequency MSRs

[David Hildenbrand]

On 07.08.2017 10:57, Ladi Prosek wrote:
> As of kernel commit eb82feea59d6 ("KVM: hyperv: support 
> HV_X64_MSR_TSC_FREQUENCY
> and HV_X64_MSR_APIC_FREQUENCY"), KVM supports two new MSRs which are required
> for nested Hyper-V to read timestamps with RDTSC + TSC page.
> 
> This commit makes QEMU advertise the MSRs with CPUID.40000003H:EAX[11] and
> CPUID.40000003H:EDX[8] as specified in the Hyper-V TLFS and experimentally
> verified on a Hyper-V host. The feature is enabled with the existing hv-time 
> CPU
> flag, and only if the TSC frequency is stable across migrations and known.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ladi Prosek <address@hidden>
> ---
>  target/i386/kvm.c | 12 +++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/target/i386/kvm.c b/target/i386/kvm.c
> index 2dc01c9..739334a 100644
> --- a/target/i386/kvm.c
> +++ b/target/i386/kvm.c
> @@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ static bool has_msr_hv_vpindex;
>  static bool has_msr_hv_runtime;
>  static bool has_msr_hv_synic;
>  static bool has_msr_hv_stimer;
> +static bool has_msr_hv_frequencies;
>  static bool has_msr_xss;
>  
>  static bool has_msr_architectural_pmu;
> @@ -640,7 +641,13 @@ static int hyperv_handle_properties(CPUState *cs)
>      if (cpu->hyperv_time) {
>          env->features[FEAT_HYPERV_EAX] |= HV_X64_MSR_HYPERCALL_AVAILABLE;
>          env->features[FEAT_HYPERV_EAX] |= 
> HV_X64_MSR_TIME_REF_COUNT_AVAILABLE;
> -        env->features[FEAT_HYPERV_EAX] |= 0x200;
> +        env->features[FEAT_HYPERV_EAX] |= HV_X64_MSR_REFERENCE_TSC_AVAILABLE;

this could even go into a separate patch.

> +
> +        if (has_msr_hv_frequencies && tsc_is_stable_and_known(env)) {
> +            env->features[FEAT_HYPERV_EAX] |= HV_X64_ACCESS_FREQUENCY_MSRS;
> +            env->features[FEAT_HYPERV_EDX] |=
> +                HV_FEATURE_FREQUENCY_MSRS_AVAILABLE;
> +        }
>      }
>      if (cpu->hyperv_crash && has_msr_hv_crash) {
>          env->features[FEAT_HYPERV_EDX] |= HV_X64_GUEST_CRASH_MSR_AVAILABLE;
> @@ -1134,6 +1141,9 @@ static int kvm_get_supported_msrs(KVMState *s)
>                  case HV_X64_MSR_STIMER0_CONFIG:
>                      has_msr_hv_stimer = true;
>                      break;
> +                case HV_X64_MSR_TSC_FREQUENCY:
> +                    has_msr_hv_frequencies = true;
> +                    break;
>                  }
>              }
>          }
> 

Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <address@hidden>

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Thanks,

David