[PATCH 1/3] L1 TSC handling

Nadav Har'El
2011-08-02T12:54:40Z

KVM assumed in several places that reading the TSC MSR returns the value for
L1. This is incorrect, because when L2 is running, the correct TSC read exit
emulation is to return L2's value.

We therefore add a new x86_ops function, read_l1_tsc, to use in places that
specifically need to read the L1 TSC, NOT the TSC of the current level of
guest.

Note that one change, of one line in kvm_arch_vcpu_load, is made redundant
by a different patch sent by Zachary Amsden (and not yet applied):
kvm_arch_vcpu_load() should not read the guest TSC, and if it didn't, of
course we didn't have to change the call of kvm_get_msr() to read_l1_tsc().

Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@il.ibm.com>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 2 ++
arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 9 +++++++++
arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 8 ++++----
4 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- .before/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h 2011-08-02 15:51:02.000000000 +0300
+++ .after/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h 2011-08-02 15:51:02.000000000 +0300
@@ -636,6 +636,8 @@ struct kvm_x86_ops {
struct x86_instruction_info *info,
enum x86_intercept_stage stage);

+ u64 (*read_l1_tsc)(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
+
const struct trace_print_flags *exit_reasons_str;
};

--- .before/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c 2011-08-02 15:51:02.000000000 +0300
+++ .after/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c 2011-08-02 15:51:02.000000000 +0300
@@ -1748,6 +1748,21 @@ static u64 guest_read_tsc(void)
}

/*
+ * Like guest_read_tsc, but always returns L1's notion of the timestamp
+ * counter, even if a nested guest (L2) is currently running.
+ */
+u64 vmx_read_l1_tsc(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
+{
+ u64 host_tsc, tsc_offset;
+
+ rdtscll(host_tsc);
+ tsc_offset = is_guest_mode(vcpu) ?
+ to_vmx(vcpu)->nested.vmcs01_tsc_offset :
+ vmcs_read64(TSC_OFFSET);
+ return host_tsc + tsc_offset;
+}
+
+/*
* Empty call-back. Needs to be implemented when VMX enables the SET_TSC_KHZ
* ioctl. In this case the call-back should update internal vmx state to make
* the changes effective.
@@ -7059,6 +7074,8 @@ static struct kvm_x86_ops vmx_x86_ops =
.set_tdp_cr3 = vmx_set_cr3,

.check_intercept = vmx_check_intercept,
+
+ .read_l1_tsc = vmx_read_l1_tsc,
};

static int __init vmx_init(void)
--- .before/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c 2011-08-02 15:51:02.000000000 +0300
+++ .after/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c 2011-08-02 15:51:02.000000000 +0300
@@ -2894,6 +2894,13 @@ static int cr8_write_interception(struct
return 0;
}

+u64 svm_read_l1_tsc(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
+{
+ struct vmcb *vmcb = get_host_vmcb(to_svm(vcpu));
+ return vmcb->control.tsc_offset +
+ svm_scale_tsc(vcpu, native_read_tsc());
+}
+
static int svm_get_msr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned ecx, u64 *data)
{
struct vcpu_svm *svm = to_svm(vcpu);
@@ -4243,6 +4250,8 @@ static struct kvm_x86_ops svm_x86_ops =
.set_tdp_cr3 = set_tdp_cr3,

.check_intercept = svm_check_intercept,
+
+ .read_l1_tsc = svm_read_l1_tsc,
};

static int __init svm_init(void)
--- .before/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c 2011-08-02 15:51:02.000000000 +0300
+++ .after/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c 2011-08-02 15:51:02.000000000 +0300
@@ -1098,7 +1098,7 @@ static int kvm_guest_time_update(struct

/* Keep irq disabled to prevent changes to the clock */
local_irq_save(flags);
- kvm_get_msr(v, MSR_IA32_TSC, &tsc_timestamp);
+ tsc_timestamp = kvm_x86_ops->read_l1_tsc(v);
kernel_ns = get_kernel_ns();
this_tsc_khz = vcpu_tsc_khz(v);
if (unlikely(this_tsc_khz == 0)) {
@@ -2215,7 +2215,7 @@ void kvm_arch_vcpu_load(struct kvm_vcpu
s64 tsc_delta;
u64 tsc;

- kvm_get_msr(vcpu, MSR_IA32_TSC, &tsc);
+ tsc = kvm_x86_ops->read_l1_tsc(vcpu);
tsc_delta = !vcpu->arch.last_guest_tsc ? 0 :
tsc - vcpu->arch.last_guest_tsc;

@@ -2239,7 +2239,7 @@ void kvm_arch_vcpu_put(struct kvm_vcpu *
{
kvm_x86_ops->vcpu_put(vcpu);
kvm_put_guest_fpu(vcpu);
- kvm_get_msr(vcpu, MSR_IA32_TSC, &vcpu->arch.last_guest_tsc);
+ vcpu->arch.last_guest_tsc = kvm_x86_ops->read_l1_tsc(vcpu);
}

static int is_efer_nx(void)
@@ -5722,7 +5722,7 @@ static int vcpu_enter_guest(struct kvm_v
if (hw_breakpoint_active())
hw_breakpoint_restore();

- kvm_get_msr(vcpu, MSR_IA32_TSC, &vcpu->arch.last_guest_tsc);
+ vcpu->arch.last_guest_tsc = kvm_x86_ops->read_l1_tsc(vcpu);

vcpu->mode = OUTSIDE_GUEST_MODE;
smp_wmb();