tree 52d8eb601fac0ce8ac1ab6ad644b6290a64c722a
parent 68bfd0ad4a1dcc4c328d5db85dc746b49c1ec07e
author Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> 1398876525 -0300
committer Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de> 1403733297 +0200

target-i386: Support "invariant tsc" flag

Expose "Invariant TSC" flag, if KVM is enabled. From Intel documentation:

17.13.1 Invariant TSC The time stamp counter in newer processors may
support an enhancement, referred to as invariant TSC. Processor’s
support for invariant TSC is indicated by CPUID.80000007H:EDX[8].
The invariant TSC will run at a constant rate in all ACPI P-, C-.
and T-states. This is the architectural behavior moving forward. On
processors with invariant TSC support, the OS may use the TSC for wall
clock timer services (instead of ACPI or HPET timers). TSC reads are
much more efficient and do not incur the overhead associated with a ring
transition or access to a platform resource.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
[ehabkost: redo feature filtering to use .tcg_features]
[ehabkost: add CPUID_APM_INVTSC macro, add it to .unmigratable_flags]
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>