This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
kvm: x86: Update tsc multiplier on change.
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
kvm-x86-update-tsc-multiplier-on-change.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 2680d6da455b636dd006636780c0f235c6561d70 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Owen Hofmann <osh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 13:36:13 -0800
Subject: kvm: x86: Update tsc multiplier on change.
From: Owen Hofmann <osh@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 2680d6da455b636dd006636780c0f235c6561d70 upstream.
vmx.c writes the TSC_MULTIPLIER field in vmx_vcpu_load, but only when a
vcpu has migrated physical cpus. Record the last value written and
update in vmx_vcpu_load on any change, otherwise a cpu migration must
occur for TSC frequency scaling to take effect.
Fixes: ff2c3a1803775cc72dc6f624b59554956396b0ee
Signed-off-by: Owen Hofmann <osh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 14 +++++++++-----
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
@@ -595,6 +595,8 @@ struct vcpu_vmx {
/* Support for PML */
#define PML_ENTITY_NUM 512
struct page *pml_pg;
+
+ u64 current_tsc_ratio;
};
enum segment_cache_field {
@@ -2062,14 +2064,16 @@ static void vmx_vcpu_load(struct kvm_vcp
rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_ESP, sysenter_esp);
vmcs_writel(HOST_IA32_SYSENTER_ESP, sysenter_esp); /* 22.2.3 */
- /* Setup TSC multiplier */
- if (cpu_has_vmx_tsc_scaling())
- vmcs_write64(TSC_MULTIPLIER,
- vcpu->arch.tsc_scaling_ratio);
-
vmx->loaded_vmcs->cpu = cpu;
}
+ /* Setup TSC multiplier */
+ if (kvm_has_tsc_control &&
+ vmx->current_tsc_ratio != vcpu->arch.tsc_scaling_ratio) {
+ vmx->current_tsc_ratio = vcpu->arch.tsc_scaling_ratio;
+ vmcs_write64(TSC_MULTIPLIER, vmx->current_tsc_ratio);
+ }
+
vmx_vcpu_pi_load(vcpu, cpu);
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from osh@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/kvm-x86-update-tsc-multiplier-on-change.patch
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