https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=208238
Bug ID: 208238
Summary: [Hyper-V] TSC frequency is not correctly detected:
"calcru: runtime went backwards"
Product: Base System
Version: 11.0-CURRENT
Hardware: Any
OS: Any
Status: New
Severity: Affects Some People
Priority: ---
Component: kern
Assignee: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Reporter: de...@microsoft.com
I can easily get a large number of messages in the system log similar to this:
# dmesg | grep backwards
calcru: runtime went backwards from 5188 usec to 2727 usec for pid 770 (cron)
calcru: runtime went backwards from 2944 usec to 1488 usec for pid 766
(sendmail)
calcru: runtime went backwards from 2497 usec to 1262 usec for pid 766
(sendmail)
It looks this is caused by the wrongly-detected TSC frequency and I made this
patch to address this:
https://github.com/dcui/freebsd/commit/07acbd8a3771adba9ac0fca807ec629ff05a807c
"
use hyper-v time counter (rather than i8254) to calibrate TSC
The i8254 PIT counter emulated by Hyper-V is not reliable.
In probe_tsc_freq() -> DELAY -> init_ops.early_delay() -> i8254_delay(),
getit() can return these values when it is invoked 10 times:
1 pit count0 = 228
2 pit count0 = 131
3 pit count0 = 34
4 pit count0 = 65473 <-- this is a normal wrap-around.
5 pit count0 = 65375
6 pit count0 = 65278
7 pit count0 = 65180
8 pit count0 = 65388 <-- this is bad!
9 pit count0 = 65290
10 pit count0 = 65193
For the 8th time, the 'delta' in i8254_delay() is < 0 while
it shouldn't, so the later "delta += i8254_max_count;" and
"ticks_left -= delta" will cause i8254_delay() to wait shorter than
expected, and finally probe_tsc_freq() get a smaller 'tsc_freq'.
A smaller 'tsc_freq' can cause time inaccuracy in dtrace.
It can also cause warnings like
calcru: runtime went backwards from 50 usec to 25 usec for pid 0 (kernel)
calcru: runtime went backwards from 1471 usec to 743 usec for pid 0 (kernel)
calcru: runtime went backwards from 40 usec to 20 usec for pid 0 (kernel)
calcru: runtime went backwards from 18 usec to 9 usec for pid 0 (kernel)
calcru: runtime went backwards from 46204978 usec to 23362331 usec for pid 0
(kernel)
We use Hyper-V time counter, which is much more reliable than i8254,
to calibrate TSC.
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