I am attaching a clocksource driver for HyperV.
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <ksriniva...@novell.com>
From: K. Y. Srinivasan <ksriniva...@novell.com>
Subject: A clocksource for Linux guests hosted on HyperV.
References: None
Patch-mainline:
This patch is a clocksource implementation suitable for guests hosted on HyperV.
Time keeping in Linux guests hosted on HyperV is unstable. This clocksource
driver fixes the problem.
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <ksriniva...@novell.com>
Index: linux/drivers/staging/hv/hv_timesource.c
===================================================================
--- /dev/null 1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
+++ linux/drivers/staging/hv/hv_timesource.c 2010-04-05 13:33:36.000000000
-0600
@@ -0,0 +1,148 @@
+/*
+ * A clocksource for Linux running on HyperV.
+ *
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2010, Novell, Inc.
+ * Author : K. Y. Srinivasan <ksriniva...@novell.com>
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+ * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, GOOD TITLE or
+ * NON INFRINGEMENT. See the GNU General Public License for more
+ * details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+ * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+ *
+ */
+
+#include <linux/version.h>
+#include <linux/clocksource.h>
+#include <linux/init.h>
+#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/pci.h>
+#include <linux/dmi.h>
+
+#define HV_CLOCK_SHIFT 22
+/*
+ * HyperV defined synthetic CPUID leaves:
+ */
+#define HV_CPUID_SIGNATURE 0x40000000
+#define HV_CPUID_MIN 0x40000005
+#define HV_HYPERVISOR_PRESENT_BIT 0x80000000
+#define HV_CPUID_FEATURES 0x40000003
+#define HV_CPUID_RECOMMENDATIONS 0x40000004
+
+/*
+ * HyperV defined synthetic MSRs
+ */
+
+#define HV_X64_MSR_TIME_REF_COUNT 0x40000020
+
+
+static cycle_t read_hv_clock(struct clocksource *arg)
+{
+ cycle_t current_tick;
+ /*
+ * Read the partition counter to get the current tick count. This count
+ * is set to 0 when the partition is created and is incremented in
+ * 100 nanosecond units.
+ */
+ rdmsrl(HV_X64_MSR_TIME_REF_COUNT, current_tick);
+ return current_tick;
+}
+
+static struct clocksource clocksource_hyperv = {
+ .name = "hyperv_clocksource",
+ .rating = 400, /* use this when running on Hyperv*/
+ .read = read_hv_clock,
+ .mask = CLOCKSOURCE_MASK(64),
+ .shift = HV_CLOCK_SHIFT,
+};
+
+static struct dmi_system_id __initconst
+hv_timesource_dmi_table[] __maybe_unused = {
+ {
+ .ident = "Hyper-V",
+ .matches = {
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "Microsoft Corporation"),
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "Virtual Machine"),
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_BOARD_NAME, "Virtual Machine"),
+ },
+ },
+ { },
+};
+MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(dmi, hv_timesource_dmi_table);
+
+static struct pci_device_id __initconst
+hv_timesource_pci_table[] __maybe_unused = {
+ { PCI_DEVICE(0x1414, 0x5353) }, /* VGA compatible controller */
+ { 0 }
+};
+MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(pci, hv_timesource_pci_table);
+
+
+static int __init hv_detect_hyperv(void)
+{
+ u32 eax, ebx, ecx, edx;
+ static char hyp_signature[20];
+
+ cpuid(1, &eax, &ebx, &ecx, &edx);
+ if (!(ecx & HV_HYPERVISOR_PRESENT_BIT)) {
+ printk(KERN_WARNING
+ "Not on a Hypervisor\n");
+ return 1;
+ }
+ cpuid(HV_CPUID_SIGNATURE, &eax, &ebx, &ecx, &edx);
+ *(u32 *)(hyp_signature + 0) = ebx;
+ *(u32 *)(hyp_signature + 4) = ecx;
+ *(u32 *)(hyp_signature + 8) = edx;
+ hyp_signature[12] = 0;
+
+ if ((eax < HV_CPUID_MIN) || (strcmp("Microsoft Hv", hyp_signature))) {
+ printk(KERN_WARNING
+ "Not on HyperV; signature %s, eax %x\n",
+ hyp_signature, eax);
+ return 1;
+ }
+ /*
+ * Extract the features, recommendations etc.
+ */
+ cpuid(HV_CPUID_FEATURES, &eax, &ebx, &ecx, &edx);
+ if (!(eax & 0x10)) {
+ printk(KERN_WARNING "HyperV Time Ref Counter not available!\n");
+ return 1;
+ }
+
+ cpuid(HV_CPUID_RECOMMENDATIONS, &eax, &ebx, &ecx, &edx);
+ printk(KERN_INFO "HyperV recommendations: %x\n", eax);
+ printk(KERN_INFO "HyperV spin count: %x\n", ebx);
+ return 0;
+}
+
+
+static int __init init_hv_clocksource(void)
+{
+ if (hv_detect_hyperv())
+ return -ENODEV;
+ /*
+ * The time ref counter in HyperV is in 100ns units.
+ * The definition of mult is:
+ * mult/2^shift = ns/cyc = 100
+ * mult = (100 << shift)
+ */
+ clocksource_hyperv.mult = (100 << HV_CLOCK_SHIFT);
+ printk(KERN_INFO "Registering HyperV clock source\n");
+ return clocksource_register(&clocksource_hyperv);
+}
+
+module_init(init_hv_clocksource);
+MODULE_DESCRIPTION("HyperV based clocksource");
+MODULE_AUTHOR("K. Y. Srinivasan <ksriniva...@novell.com>");
+MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
Index: linux/drivers/staging/hv/Makefile
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/drivers/staging/hv/Makefile 2010-04-05 13:02:06.000000000
-0600
+++ linux/drivers/staging/hv/Makefile 2010-04-05 13:02:13.000000000 -0600
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-obj-$(CONFIG_HYPERV) += hv_vmbus.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_HYPERV) += hv_vmbus.o hv_timesource.o
obj-$(CONFIG_HYPERV_STORAGE) += hv_storvsc.o
obj-$(CONFIG_HYPERV_BLOCK) += hv_blkvsc.o
obj-$(CONFIG_HYPERV_NET) += hv_netvsc.o
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