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Subject: [PATCH 1/4] x86, sched: Bail out of frequency invariance if base frequency is unknown
Date:   Thu, 16 Apr 2020 07:47:42 +0200
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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.

Signed-off-by: Giovanni Gherdovich <ggherdovich@suse.cz>
Fixes: 1567c3e3467c ("x86, sched: Add support for frequency invariance")
---
 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
index fe3ab9632f3b..3a318ec9bc17 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
@@ -1985,6 +1985,15 @@ static bool intel_set_max_freq_ratio(void)
 	return false;
 
 out:
+	/*
+	 * Some hypervisors advertise X86_FEATURE_APERFMPERF
+	 * but then fill all MSR's with zeroes.
+	 */
+	if (!base_freq) {
+		pr_debug("Couldn't determine cpu base frequency, necessary for scale-invariant accounting.\n");
+		return false;
+	}
+
 	arch_turbo_freq_ratio = div_u64(turbo_freq * SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE,
 					base_freq);
 	arch_set_max_freq_ratio(turbo_disabled());
-- 
2.16.4