Re: [PATCH 1/1] drivers/hv: correct tsc page sequence invalid value

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On 11/12/2015 08:35 PM, KY Srinivasan wrote:

-----Original Message-----
From: Denis V. Lunev [mailto:den@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2015 11:16 PM
To: KY Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: rkagan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-
kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Andrey Smetanin <asmetanin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Vitaly Kuznetsov
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] drivers/hv: correct tsc page sequence invalid value

On 11/02/2015 10:42 PM, KY Srinivasan wrote:
-----Original Message-----
From: Denis V. Lunev [mailto:den@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, November 2, 2015 3:34 AM
Cc: rkagan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-
kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Andrey Smetanin <asmetanin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
KY
Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Haiyang Zhang
<haiyangz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx>;
Denis V. Lunev <den@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] drivers/hv: correct tsc page sequence invalid value

From: Andrey Smetanin <asmetanin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hypervisor Top Level Functional Specification v3/4 says
that TSC page sequence value = -1(0xFFFFFFFF) is used to
indicate that TSC page no longer reliable source of reference
timer. Unfortunately, we found that Windows Hyper-V guest
side implementation uses sequence value = 0 to indicate
that Tsc page no longer valid. This is clearly visible
inside Windows 2012R2 ntoskrnl.exe HvlGetReferenceTime()
function dissassembly:

HvlGetReferenceTime proc near
                   xchg    ax, ax
loc_1401C3132:
                   mov     rax, cs:HvlpReferenceTscPage
                   mov     r9d, [rax]
                   test    r9d, r9d
                   jz      short loc_1401C3176
                   rdtsc
                   mov     rcx, cs:HvlpReferenceTscPage
                   shl     rdx, 20h
                   or      rdx, rax
                   mov     rax, [rcx+8]
                   mov     rcx, cs:HvlpReferenceTscPage
                   mov     r8, [rcx+10h]
                   mul     rdx
                   mov     rax, cs:HvlpReferenceTscPage
                   add     rdx, r8
                   mov     ecx, [rax]
                   cmp     ecx, r9d
                   jnz     short loc_1401C3132
                   jmp     short loc_1401C3184
loc_1401C3176:
                   mov     ecx, 40000020h
                   rdmsr
                   shl     rdx, 20h
                   or      rdx, rax
loc_1401C3184:
                   mov     rax, rdx
                   retn
HvlGetReferenceTime endp

This patch aligns Tsc page invalid sequence value with
Windows Hyper-V guest implementation which is more
compatible with both Hyper-V hypervisor and KVM hypervisor.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Smetanin <asmetanin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Thanks Andrey; the Hyper-V team will be updating the Hyper-V
documentation.
Acked-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Regards,

K. Y
K.Y.,

can you pls clarify the state of this patch? It is a bit unclear
to me whether it is applied or not.
I will be submitting this shortly.

By the way, I also do not see the following patch
"drivers/hv: cleanup synic msrs if vmbus connect failed"
as applied in the Linux-next. You have promised to resend
it will correct author.
It was resent on October 29. It is in Greg's queue.

Regards,

K. Y
Thank you in advance,
      Den
thank you very much for this update :)

Den
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