History log of /freebsd-10-stable/sys/x86/x86/tsc.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# 280973 01-Apr-2015 jhb

MFC 276724:
On some Intel CPUs with a P-state but not C-state invariant TSC the TSC
may also halt in C2 and not just C3 (it seems that in some cases the BIOS
advertises its C3 state as a C2 state in _CST). Just play it safe and
disable both C2 and C3 states if a user forces the use of the TSC as the
timecounter on such CPUs.

PR: 192316


# 278522 10-Feb-2015 jhb

MFC 273800:
Rework virtual machine hypervisor detection.
- Move the existing code to x86/x86/identcpu.c since it is x86-specific.
- If the CPUID2_HV flag is set, assume a hypervisor is present and query
the 0x40000000 leaf to determine the hypervisor vendor ID. Export the
vendor ID and the highest supported hypervisor CPUID leaf via
hv_vendor[] and hv_high variables, respectively. The hv_vendor[]
array is also exported via the hw.hv_vendor sysctl.
- Merge the VMWare detection code from tsc.c into the new probe in
identcpu.c. Add a VM_GUEST_VMWARE to identify vmware and use that in
the TSC code to identify VMWare.


# 276070 22-Dec-2014 jhb

MFC 260557,271076,271077,271082,271083,271098:
- Remove spaces from boot messages when we print the CPU ID/Family/Stepping
- Move prototypes for various functions into out of C files and into
<machine/md_var.h>.
- Reduce diffs between i386 and amd64 initcpu.c and identcpu.c files.
- Move blacklists of broken TSCs out of the printcpuinfo() function
and into the TSC probe routine.
- Merge the amd64 and i386 identcpu.c into a single x86 implementation.


# 280973 01-Apr-2015 jhb

MFC 276724:
On some Intel CPUs with a P-state but not C-state invariant TSC the TSC
may also halt in C2 and not just C3 (it seems that in some cases the BIOS
advertises its C3 state as a C2 state in _CST). Just play it safe and
disable both C2 and C3 states if a user forces the use of the TSC as the
timecounter on such CPUs.

PR: 192316


# 278522 10-Feb-2015 jhb

MFC 273800:
Rework virtual machine hypervisor detection.
- Move the existing code to x86/x86/identcpu.c since it is x86-specific.
- If the CPUID2_HV flag is set, assume a hypervisor is present and query
the 0x40000000 leaf to determine the hypervisor vendor ID. Export the
vendor ID and the highest supported hypervisor CPUID leaf via
hv_vendor[] and hv_high variables, respectively. The hv_vendor[]
array is also exported via the hw.hv_vendor sysctl.
- Merge the VMWare detection code from tsc.c into the new probe in
identcpu.c. Add a VM_GUEST_VMWARE to identify vmware and use that in
the TSC code to identify VMWare.


# 276070 22-Dec-2014 jhb

MFC 260557,271076,271077,271082,271083,271098:
- Remove spaces from boot messages when we print the CPU ID/Family/Stepping
- Move prototypes for various functions into out of C files and into
<machine/md_var.h>.
- Reduce diffs between i386 and amd64 initcpu.c and identcpu.c files.
- Move blacklists of broken TSCs out of the printcpuinfo() function
and into the TSC probe routine.
- Merge the amd64 and i386 identcpu.c into a single x86 implementation.