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Impact: Changes timebase calibration on Vmware. Use the synthetic TSC_RELIABLE bit to workaround virtualization anomalies. Virtual TSCs can be kept nearly in sync, but because the virtual TSC offset is set by software, it's not perfect. So, the TSC synchronization test can fail. Even then the TSC can be used as a clocksource since the VMware platform exports a reliable TSC to the guest for timekeeping purposes. Use this bit to check if we need to skip the TSC sync checks. Along with this also set the CONSTANT_TSC bit when on VMware, since we still want to use TSC as clocksource on VM running over hardware which has unsynchronized TSC's (opteron's), since the hypervisor will take care of providing consistent TSC to the guest. Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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999 B
C
27 lines
999 B
C
/*
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* Copyright (C) 2008, VMware, Inc.
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*
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* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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* the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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* (at your option) any later version.
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*
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* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
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* WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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* MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, GOOD TITLE or
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* NON INFRINGEMENT. See the GNU General Public License for more
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* details.
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*
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* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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* along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
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* Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
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*
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*/
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#ifndef ASM_X86__VMWARE_H
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#define ASM_X86__VMWARE_H
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extern unsigned long vmware_get_tsc_khz(void);
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extern int vmware_platform(void);
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extern void vmware_set_feature_bits(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c);
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#endif
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