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Clocks and Timers
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arm64
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On arm64, Hyper-V virtualizes the ARMv8 architectural system counter
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and timer. Guest VMs use this virtualized hardware as the Linux
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clocksource and clockevents via the standard arm_arch_timer.c
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driver, just as they would on bare metal. Linux vDSO support for the
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architectural system counter is functional in guest VMs on Hyper-V.
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While Hyper-V also provides a synthetic system clock and four synthetic
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per-CPU timers as described in the TLFS, they are not used by the
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Linux kernel in a Hyper-V guest on arm64. However, older versions
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of Hyper-V for arm64 only partially virtualize the ARMv8
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architectural timer, such that the timer does not generate
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interrupts in the VM. Because of this limitation, running current
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Linux kernel versions on these older Hyper-V versions requires an
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out-of-tree patch to use the Hyper-V synthetic clocks/timers instead.
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x86/x64
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On x86/x64, Hyper-V provides guest VMs with a synthetic system clock
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and four synthetic per-CPU timers as described in the TLFS. Hyper-V
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also provides access to the virtualized TSC via the RDTSC and
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related instructions. These TSC instructions do not trap to
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the hypervisor and so provide excellent performance in a VM.
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Hyper-V performs TSC calibration, and provides the TSC frequency
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to the guest VM via a synthetic MSR. Hyper-V initialization code
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in Linux reads this MSR to get the frequency, so it skips TSC
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calibration and sets tsc_reliable. Hyper-V provides virtualized
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versions of the PIT (in Hyper-V Generation 1 VMs only), local
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APIC timer, and RTC. Hyper-V does not provide a virtualized HPET in
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guest VMs.
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The Hyper-V synthetic system clock can be read via a synthetic MSR,
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but this access traps to the hypervisor. As a faster alternative,
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the guest can configure a memory page to be shared between the guest
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and the hypervisor. Hyper-V populates this memory page with a
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64-bit scale value and offset value. To read the synthetic clock
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value, the guest reads the TSC and then applies the scale and offset
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as described in the Hyper-V TLFS. The resulting value advances
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at a constant 10 MHz frequency. In the case of a live migration
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to a host with a different TSC frequency, Hyper-V adjusts the
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scale and offset values in the shared page so that the 10 MHz
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frequency is maintained.
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Starting with Windows Server 2022 Hyper-V, Hyper-V uses hardware
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support for TSC frequency scaling to enable live migration of VMs
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across Hyper-V hosts where the TSC frequency may be different.
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When a Linux guest detects that this Hyper-V functionality is
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available, it prefers to use Linux's standard TSC-based clocksource.
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Otherwise, it uses the clocksource for the Hyper-V synthetic system
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clock implemented via the shared page (identified as
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"hyperv_clocksource_tsc_page").
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The Hyper-V synthetic system clock is available to user space via
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vDSO, and gettimeofday() and related system calls can execute
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entirely in user space. The vDSO is implemented by mapping the
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shared page with scale and offset values into user space. User
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space code performs the same algorithm of reading the TSC and
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appying the scale and offset to get the constant 10 MHz clock.
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Linux clockevents are based on Hyper-V synthetic timer 0. While
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Hyper-V offers 4 synthetic timers for each CPU, Linux only uses
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timer 0. Interrupts from stimer0 are recorded on the "HVS" line in
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/proc/interrupts. Clockevents based on the virtualized PIT and
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local APIC timer also work, but the Hyper-V synthetic timer is
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preferred.
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The driver for the Hyper-V synthetic system clock and timers is
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drivers/clocksource/hyperv_timer.c.
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