From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Subject: Re: KVM: x86: disable master clock if TSC is reset during suspend (v2)
Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 12:21:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <537343A7.3030805@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140514100636.GB20451@amt.cnet>
Il 14/05/2014 12:06, Marcelo Tosatti ha scritto:
>
> Updating system_time from the kernel clock once master clock
> has been enabled can result in time backwards event, in case
> kernel clock frequency is lower than TSC frequency.
>
> Disable master clock in case its necessary to update it
> from the resume path.
>
> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> index de0931c..32eec77 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> @@ -106,6 +106,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_max_guest_tsc_khz);
> static u32 tsc_tolerance_ppm = 250;
> module_param(tsc_tolerance_ppm, uint, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);
>
> +static bool suspend_backwards_tsc = false;
> +
> #define KVM_NR_SHARED_MSRS 16
>
> struct kvm_shared_msrs_global {
> @@ -1471,7 +1473,8 @@ static void pvclock_update_vm_gtod_copy(struct kvm *kvm)
> &ka->master_kernel_ns,
> &ka->master_cycle_now);
>
> - ka->use_master_clock = host_tsc_clocksource & vcpus_matched;
> + ka->use_master_clock = host_tsc_clocksource && vcpus_matched
> + && suspend_backwards_tsc;
Missing "!" here. Also, perhaps "backwards_tsc_observed" is a better
name for the variable?
Paolo
>
> if (ka->use_master_clock)
> atomic_set(&kvm_guest_has_master_clock, 1);
> @@ -6939,6 +6942,7 @@ int kvm_arch_hardware_enable(void *garbage)
> */
> if (backwards_tsc) {
> u64 delta_cyc = max_tsc - local_tsc;
> + suspend_backwards_tsc = true;
> list_for_each_entry(kvm, &vm_list, vm_list) {
> kvm_for_each_vcpu(i, vcpu, kvm) {
> vcpu->arch.tsc_offset_adjustment += delta_cyc;
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-14 10:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-14 7:26 KVM: x86: disable master clock if TSC is reset during suspend Marcelo Tosatti
2014-05-14 9:09 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-05-14 10:05 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2014-05-14 10:06 ` KVM: x86: disable master clock if TSC is reset during suspend (v2) Marcelo Tosatti
2014-05-14 10:21 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2014-05-14 15:43 ` KVM: x86: disable master clock if TSC is reset during suspend (v3) Marcelo Tosatti
2014-05-14 16:00 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-05-21 8:26 ` Alexander Graf
2014-05-21 10:01 ` Paolo Bonzini
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