When the cycle counter is "stable", i.e., synchronized across vCPUs by
the hypervisor, userspace can use a serialized rdtsc instead of relying
on rdtscp, just like the kernel timecounter does. This can be useful
for performance in guests where the hypervisor hides rdtscp for some
reason.
To avoid breaking compatibility with older userspace which expects
rdtscp to be usable when pvclock exports timekeeping info, hide this
feature behind a sysctl.
Reviewed by: kib
Tested by: Shrikanth R Kamath <kshrikanth@juniper.net>
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Klara, Inc.
Sponsored by: Juniper Networks, Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D38342
Add vDSO support for timekeeping devices that support the KVM/XEN
paravirtual clock API.
Also, expose, in the userspace-accessible '<machine/pvclock.h>',
definitions that will be needed by 'libc' to support
'VDSO_TH_ALGO_X86_PVCLK'.
Sponsored by: Juniper Networks, Inc.
Sponsored by: Klara, Inc.
Reviewed by: kib
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D31418
Consolidate more hypervisor-agnostic functionality behind a new 'struct
pvclock' API.
This should also make it easier to subsequently add hypervisor-agnostic
vDSO timekeeping support.
Also, perform some clean-up:
- Remove 'pvclock_get_last_cycles()'; do not allow external access
to 'pvclock_last_systime' since this is not necessary.
- Consolidate/simplify wall and system time reading codepaths.
- Ensure correct ordering within wall and system time reading
codepaths via 'atomic(9)' and 'rdtsc_ordered()' rather than via
'rmb()'.
- Remove some extra newlines.
Sponsored by: Juniper Networks, Inc.
Sponsored by: Klara, Inc.
Reviewed by: kib
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D31418
This can later use this to determine the TSC frequency like is done with
VMware, instead of using a DELAY loop that is not always accurate in an VM.
MFC after: 1 month
KVM clock shares the same data structures between the guest and the host
as Xen so it makes sense to just have a single copy of this code.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1429
Reviewed by: royger (eariler version)
MFC after: 1 month
