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

-- Dexuan


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