x86, sched: Bail out of frequency invariance if base frequency is unknown
Some hypervisors such as VMWare ESXi 5.5 advertise support for X86_FEATURE_APERFMPERF but then fill all MSR's with zeroes. In particular, MSR_PLATFORM_INFO set to zero tricks the code that wants to know the base clock frequency of the CPU (highest non-turbo frequency), producing a division by zero when computing the ratio turbo_freq/base_freq necessary for frequency invariant accounting. It is to be noted that even if MSR_PLATFORM_INFO contained the appropriate data, APERF and MPERF are constantly zero on ESXi 5.5, thus freq-invariance couldn't be done in principle (not that it would make a lot of sense in a VM anyway). The real problem is advertising X86_FEATURE_APERFMPERF. This appears to be fixed in more recent versions: ESXi 6.7 doesn't advertise that feature. Fixes: 1567c3e3 ("x86, sched: Add support for frequency invariance") Signed-off-by: Giovanni Gherdovich <ggherdovich@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200416054745.740-2-ggherdovich@suse.cz
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