Commit 5f92b45c authored by Ani Sinha's avatar Ani Sinha Committed by Wei Liu

x86/hyperv: add comment describing TSC_INVARIANT_CONTROL MSR setting bit 0

Commit dce7cd62 ("x86/hyperv: Allow guests to enable InvariantTSC")
added the support for HV_X64_MSR_TSC_INVARIANT_CONTROL. Setting bit 0
of this synthetic MSR will allow hyper-v guests to report invariant TSC
CPU feature through CPUID. This comment adds this explanation to the code
and mentions where the Intel's generic platform init code reads this
feature bit from CPUID. The comment will help developers understand how
the two parts of the initialization (hyperV specific and non-hyperV
specific generic hw init) are related.
Signed-off-by: default avatarAni Sinha <ani@anisinha.ca>
Reviewed-by: default avatarVitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMichael Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210716133245.3272672-1-ani@anisinha.caSigned-off-by: default avatarWei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
parent 6dc77fa5
......@@ -353,6 +353,15 @@ static void __init ms_hyperv_init_platform(void)
machine_ops.crash_shutdown = hv_machine_crash_shutdown;
#endif
if (ms_hyperv.features & HV_ACCESS_TSC_INVARIANT) {
/*
* Writing to synthetic MSR 0x40000118 updates/changes the
* guest visible CPUIDs. Setting bit 0 of this MSR enables
* guests to report invariant TSC feature through CPUID
* instruction, CPUID 0x800000007/EDX, bit 8. See code in
* early_init_intel() where this bit is examined. The
* setting of this MSR bit should happen before init_intel()
* is called.
*/
wrmsrl(HV_X64_MSR_TSC_INVARIANT_CONTROL, 0x1);
setup_force_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_TSC_RELIABLE);
}
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