Re: [PATCH] util: directly query KVM for TSC scaling support

We currently query the host MSRs to determine if TSC scaling is supported. This works OK when running privileged and can open the /dev/cpu/0/msr. When unprivileged we fallback to querying MSRs from /dev/kvm. This is incorrect because /dev/kvm only reports accurate info for MSRs that are valid to use from inside a guest. The TSC scaling support MSR is not, thus we always end up reporting lack of TSC scaling when unprivileged. The solution to this is easy, because KVM can directly report whether TSC scaling is available, which matches what QEMU will do at startup. https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt/-/issues/188

Reported-by: Roman Mohr <rmohr(a)redhat.com&gt; Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange(a)redhat.com&gt; --- src/util/virhostcpu.c | 19 +++++++------------ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/util/virhostcpu.c b/src/util/virhostcpu.c index 7aa92ad11d..f140610b47 100644 --- a/src/util/virhostcpu.c +++ b/src/util/virhostcpu.c @@ -1349,11 +1349,10 @@ virHostCPUGetMSR(unsigned long index, virHostCPUTscInfo * virHostCPUGetTscInfo(void) { - virHostCPUTscInfo *info; + g_autofree virHostCPUTscInfo *info = g_new0(virHostCPUTscInfo, 1); VIR_AUTOCLOSE kvmFd = -1; VIR_AUTOCLOSE vmFd = -1; VIR_AUTOCLOSE vcpuFd = -1; - uint64_t msr = 0; int rc; if ((kvmFd = open(KVM_DEVICE, O_RDONLY)) < 0) { @@ -1378,23 +1377,19 @@ virHostCPUGetTscInfo(void) _("Unable to probe TSC frequency")); return NULL; } - - info = g_new0(virHostCPUTscInfo, 1); - info->frequency = rc * 1000ULL; - if (virHostCPUGetMSR(VMX_PROCBASED_CTLS2_MSR, &msr) == 0) { - /* High 32 bits of the MSR value indicate whether specific control - * can be set to 1. */ - msr >>= 32; - - info->scaling = virTristateBoolFromBool(!!(msr & VMX_USE_TSC_SCALING)); + if ((rc = ioctl(kvmFd, KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION, KVM_CAP_TSC_CONTROL)) < 0) { + virReportSystemError(errno, "%s", + _("Unable to query TSC scaling support")); + return NULL; } + info->scaling = rc ? VIR_TRISTATE_BOOL_YES : VIR_TRISTATE_BOOL_NO; VIR_DEBUG("Detected TSC frequency %llu Hz, scaling %s", info->frequency, virTristateBoolTypeToString(info->scaling)); - return info; + return g_steal_pointer(&info); } #else