x86/timers: Move simple_udelay_calibration() past kvmclock_init()
authorBoris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Mon, 11 Sep 2017 18:51:11 +0000 (14:51 -0400)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Mon, 25 Sep 2017 13:22:45 +0000 (15:22 +0200)
simple_udelay_calibration() relies on x86_platform's calibration ops.
For KVM these ops are set late in setup_arch() and so
simple_udelay_calibration() ends up using native version.

Besides being possibly incorrect, this significantly increases kernel
boot time. For example, on my laptop executing start_kernel() by a guest
takes ~10 times more than when KVM's ops are used.

Since early_xdbc_setup_hardware() relies on calibration having been
performed move it too.

Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: baolu.lu@linux.intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170911185111.20636-1-boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
arch/x86/kernel/setup.c

index c63d2b4dd5c8caf39a53a568925ad6f3e4095ecd..b40311027c15ebeb1bfa14792e30395bc657bb32 100644 (file)
@@ -1029,8 +1029,6 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
         */
        init_hypervisor_platform();
 
-       tsc_early_delay_calibrate();
-
        x86_init.resources.probe_roms();
 
        /* after parse_early_param, so could debug it */
@@ -1115,9 +1113,6 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
        memblock_set_current_limit(ISA_END_ADDRESS);
        e820__memblock_setup();
 
-       if (!early_xdbc_setup_hardware())
-               early_xdbc_register_console();
-
        reserve_bios_regions();
 
        if (efi_enabled(EFI_MEMMAP)) {
@@ -1223,6 +1218,10 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
        kvmclock_init();
 #endif
 
+       tsc_early_delay_calibrate();
+       if (!early_xdbc_setup_hardware())
+               early_xdbc_register_console();
+
        x86_init.paging.pagetable_init();
 
        kasan_init();