[tip:x86/urgent] x86: Print the hypervisor returned tsc_khz during boot

From: tip-bot for Alok Kataria
Date: Sun Sep 20 2009 - 14:31:06 EST


Commit-ID: 6399c087458859cddff2d6b46befb95b866df3e0
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/6399c087458859cddff2d6b46befb95b866df3e0
Author: Alok Kataria <akataria@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 13:13:39 -0700
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:25:36 +0200

x86: Print the hypervisor returned tsc_khz during boot

On an AMD-64 system the processor frequency that is printed during
system boot, may be different than the tsc frequency that was
returned by the hypervisor, due to the value returned from
calibrate_cpu.

For debugging timekeeping or other related issues it might be
better to get the tsc_khz value returned by the hypervisor.

The patch below now prints the tsc frequency that the VMware
hypervisor returned.

Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@xxxxxxxxxx>
LKML-Reference: <1252095219.12518.13.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>


---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.c | 6 ++++++
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.c
index 0a46b4d..1cbed97 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.c
@@ -58,6 +58,9 @@ static unsigned long vmware_get_tsc_khz(void)
tsc_hz = eax | (((uint64_t)ebx) << 32);
do_div(tsc_hz, 1000);
BUG_ON(tsc_hz >> 32);
+ printk(KERN_INFO "TSC freq read from hypervisor : %lu.%03lu MHz\n",
+ (unsigned long) tsc_hz / 1000,
+ (unsigned long) tsc_hz % 1000);
return tsc_hz;
}

@@ -69,6 +72,9 @@ void __init vmware_platform_setup(void)

if (ebx != UINT_MAX)
x86_platform.calibrate_tsc = vmware_get_tsc_khz;
+ else
+ printk(KERN_WARNING
+ "Failed to get TSC freq from the hypervisor\n");
}

/*
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