From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Paul Durrant <paul@xen.org>, David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>,
Dongli Zhang <dongli.zhang@oracle.com>
Subject: [PATCH v8 17/17] KVM: x86: Remove implicit rdtsc() from kvm_compute_l1_tsc_offset()
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2026 16:39:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260804233923.3504629-18-seanjc@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260804233923.3504629-1-seanjc@google.com>
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Let the callers pass the host TSC value in as an explicit parameter.
This leaves some fairly obviously stupid code, which is using this
function to compare the guest TSC at some *other* time, with the
newly-minted TSC value from rdtsc(). Unless it's being used to measure
*elapsed* time, that isn't very sensible.
In this case, "obviously stupid" is an improvement over being
non-obviously so.
No functional change intended.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Paul Durrant <paul@xen.org>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
---
arch/x86/kvm/msrs.c | 3 ++-
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 11 ++++++-----
arch/x86/kvm/x86.h | 3 ++-
3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/msrs.c b/arch/x86/kvm/msrs.c
index 66fa7140d65d..22ceb39d41f6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/msrs.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/msrs.c
@@ -1631,7 +1631,8 @@ int kvm_set_msr_common(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct msr_data *msr_info)
if (msr_info->host_initiated) {
kvm_synchronize_tsc(vcpu, &data);
} else if (!vcpu->arch.guest_tsc_protected) {
- u64 adj = kvm_compute_l1_tsc_offset(vcpu, data) - vcpu->arch.l1_tsc_offset;
+ u64 adj = kvm_compute_l1_tsc_offset(vcpu, rdtsc(), data) -
+ vcpu->arch.l1_tsc_offset;
adjust_tsc_offset_guest(vcpu, adj);
vcpu->arch.ia32_tsc_adjust_msr += adj;
}
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 02c389523f52..cbe4fd3457b4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -1153,11 +1153,12 @@ u64 kvm_scale_tsc(u64 tsc, u64 ratio)
return _tsc;
}
-u64 kvm_compute_l1_tsc_offset(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 target_tsc)
+u64 kvm_compute_l1_tsc_offset(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 host_tsc,
+ u64 target_tsc)
{
u64 tsc;
- tsc = kvm_scale_tsc(rdtsc(), vcpu->arch.l1_tsc_scaling_ratio);
+ tsc = kvm_scale_tsc(host_tsc, vcpu->arch.l1_tsc_scaling_ratio);
return target_tsc - tsc;
}
@@ -1319,7 +1320,7 @@ void kvm_synchronize_tsc(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 *user_value)
bool synchronizing = false;
raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&kvm->arch.tsc_write_lock, flags);
- offset = kvm_compute_l1_tsc_offset(vcpu, data);
+ offset = kvm_compute_l1_tsc_offset(vcpu, rdtsc(), data);
ns = get_kvmclock_base_ns();
elapsed = ns - kvm->arch.last_tsc_nsec;
@@ -1368,7 +1369,7 @@ void kvm_synchronize_tsc(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 *user_value)
} else {
u64 delta = nsec_to_cycles(vcpu, elapsed);
data += delta;
- offset = kvm_compute_l1_tsc_offset(vcpu, data);
+ offset = kvm_compute_l1_tsc_offset(vcpu, rdtsc(), data);
}
matched = true;
}
@@ -2625,7 +2626,7 @@ void kvm_arch_vcpu_load(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int cpu)
mark_tsc_unstable("KVM discovered backwards TSC");
if (kvm_check_tsc_unstable()) {
- u64 offset = kvm_compute_l1_tsc_offset(vcpu,
+ u64 offset = kvm_compute_l1_tsc_offset(vcpu, rdtsc(),
vcpu->arch.last_guest_tsc);
kvm_vcpu_write_tsc_offset(vcpu, offset);
if (!vcpu->arch.guest_tsc_protected)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.h b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.h
index 0f5919b092e4..1d9a66048b01 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.h
@@ -335,7 +335,8 @@ u64 kvm_scale_tsc(u64 tsc, u64 ratio);
u64 kvm_read_l1_tsc(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 host_tsc);
u64 kvm_calc_nested_tsc_offset(u64 l1_offset, u64 l2_offset, u64 l2_multiplier);
u64 kvm_calc_nested_tsc_multiplier(u64 l1_multiplier, u64 l2_multiplier);
-u64 kvm_compute_l1_tsc_offset(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 target_tsc);
+u64 kvm_compute_l1_tsc_offset(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 host_tsc,
+ u64 target_tsc);
void kvm_vcpu_write_tsc_offset(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 l1_offset);
static inline void adjust_tsc_offset_guest(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
--
2.55.0.571.g244d577d93-goog
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-04 23:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-04 23:39 [PATCH v8 00/17] KVM: x86: Cleaning up the KVM clock mess, part 1 Sean Christopherson
2026-08-04 23:39 ` [PATCH v8 01/17] KVM: x86: Update "last guest TSC" snapshot prior to enabling IRQs/preemption Sean Christopherson
2026-08-04 23:39 ` [PATCH v8 02/17] KVM: x86: Improve accuracy of KVM clock when TSC scaling is in force Sean Christopherson
2026-08-04 23:39 ` [PATCH v8 03/17] KVM: x86: Explicitly disable TSC scaling without CONSTANT_TSC Sean Christopherson
2026-08-04 23:39 ` [PATCH v8 04/17] KVM: x86: Activate master clock immediately on vCPU creation Sean Christopherson
2026-08-05 0:06 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-05 9:11 ` David Woodhouse
2026-08-05 15:02 ` Sean Christopherson
2026-08-04 23:39 ` [PATCH v8 05/17] KVM: x86: Avoid NTP frequency skew for KVM clock on 32-bit host Sean Christopherson
2026-08-05 0:02 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-05 18:21 ` Sean Christopherson
2026-08-07 0:27 ` Sean Christopherson
2026-08-07 16:01 ` Sean Christopherson
2026-08-07 17:26 ` David Woodhouse
2026-08-08 15:08 ` David Woodhouse
2026-08-04 23:39 ` [PATCH v8 06/17] KVM: x86: Drop unnecessary CPU pinning when computing/getting kvmclock Sean Christopherson
2026-08-04 23:39 ` [PATCH v8 07/17] KVM: x86: Move "no master clock" fallback from __get_kvmclock() to get_kvmclock() Sean Christopherson
2026-08-04 23:52 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-05 15:17 ` Sean Christopherson
2026-08-04 23:39 ` [PATCH v8 08/17] KVM: x86: Wrap all of __get_kvmclock_master_clock() with CONFIG_X86_64=y Sean Christopherson
2026-08-04 23:39 ` [PATCH v8 09/17] KVM: x86: Fall back to non-master-clock if clockread fails in get_kvmclock() Sean Christopherson
2026-08-04 23:39 ` [PATCH v8 10/17] KVM: x86: Fix KVM clock precision in get_kvmclock() with TSC scaling Sean Christopherson
2026-08-04 23:39 ` [PATCH v8 11/17] KVM: x86: Use get_kvmclock() in kvm_get_wall_clock_epoch() Sean Christopherson
2026-08-04 23:39 ` [PATCH v8 12/17] KVM: x86: Fix compute_guest_tsc() to handle negative time deltas Sean Christopherson
2026-08-04 23:39 ` [PATCH v8 13/17] KVM: x86: Disable preemption, not IRQs, when getting TSC+freq pair Sean Christopherson
2026-08-04 23:56 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-05 15:16 ` Sean Christopherson
2026-08-05 15:55 ` David Woodhouse
2026-08-05 16:22 ` Sean Christopherson
2026-08-04 23:39 ` [PATCH v8 14/17] KVM: x86: Make master clock logic in guest PV clock updates 64-bit only Sean Christopherson
2026-08-04 23:39 ` [PATCH v8 15/17] KVM: x86: Upscale TSC to "now", not master clock when updating PV clocks Sean Christopherson
2026-08-04 23:39 ` [PATCH v8 16/17] KVM: x86: Simplify and comment kvm_get_time_scale() Sean Christopherson
2026-08-04 23:39 ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
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