"Michael Kelley (EOSG)" <michael.h.kel...@microsoft.com> writes:

> On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 11:49:57AM +0100, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Vitaly Kuznetsov [mailto:vkuzn...@redhat.com]
>> Sent: Friday, December 8, 2017 2:50 AM
>> To: k...@vger.kernel.org; x...@kernel.org
>> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com>; Radim Krčmář <rkrc...@redhat.com>; 
>> Thomas
>> Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>; Ingo Molnar <mi...@redhat.com>; H. Peter Anvin
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>> <haiya...@microsoft.com>; Stephen Hemminger <sthem...@microsoft.com>; Michael
>> Kelley (EOSG) <michael.h.kel...@microsoft.com>; Andy Lutomirski 
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>> Mohammed Gamal <mmo...@redhat.com>; Cathy Avery <cav...@redhat.com>; linux-
>> ker...@vger.kernel.org; de...@linuxdriverproject.org
>> Subject: [PATCH 3/6] x86/hyper-v: reenlightenment notifications support
>> 
>> Hyper-V supports Live Migration notification. This is supposed to be used in 
>> conjunction with
>> TSC emulation: when we are migrated to a host with different TSC frequency 
>> for some short
>> period host emulates our accesses to TSC and sends us an interrupt to notify 
>> about the event.
>> When we're done updating everything we can disable TSC emulation and 
>> everything will start
>> working fast again.
>> 
>> We didn't need these notifications before as Hyper-V guests are not supposed 
>> to use TSC as a
>> clocksource: in Linux we even mark it as unstable on boot. Guests normally 
>> use 'tsc page'
>> clocksouce and host updates its values on migrations automatically.
>> 
>> Things change when we want to run nested virtualization: even when we pass 
>> through PV
>> clocksources (kvm-clock or tsc page) to our guests we need to know TSC 
>> frequency and when it
>> changes.
>> 
>> Hyper-V Top Level Functional Specification (as of v5.0b) wrongly specifies
>> EAX:BIT(12) of CPUID:0x40000009 as the feature identification bit. The right 
>> one to check is
>> EAX:BIT(13) of CPUID:0x40000003. I was assured that the fix in on the way.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuzn...@redhat.com>
>
> [snip]
>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/irq_vectors.h
>> b/arch/x86/include/asm/irq_vectors.h
>> index 67421f649cfa..e71c1120426b 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/irq_vectors.h
>> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/irq_vectors.h
>> @@ -103,7 +103,12 @@
>>  #endif
>> 
>>  #define MANAGED_IRQ_SHUTDOWN_VECTOR 0xef
>> -#define LOCAL_TIMER_VECTOR          0xee
>> +
>> +#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_HYPERV)
>> +#define HYPERV_REENLIGHTENMENT_VECTOR       0xee
>> +#endif
>> +
>> +#define LOCAL_TIMER_VECTOR          0xed
>> 
>>  #define NR_VECTORS                   256
>
> [snip]
>
> Since you are pre-allocating a new vector, would you want to update the 
> irq_cpustat_t
> data structure and your interrupt handler to count the occurrences of these 
> interrupts,
> and update arch_show_interrupts() to show the count?  Then cat 
> /proc/interrupts
> will show the count.   The reenlightenment interrupts will presumably be 
> rare, but so
> are some of the others that are already counted and displayed, and it seems 
> like
> consistency should be maintained.

I could do that.

The problem with adding this entry to /proc/interrupts, as I see it,
is that everyone who has CONFIG_HYPERV enabled in their distro will see
one additional line which 99,9% of the time will be just '0'. I,
however, see some value in seeing that L1 migration occured.

I'll add a separate patch to the series and let x86 maintainers decide
if it's worthy. Thanks,

-- 
  Vitaly
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