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From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
To: kvm@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] target-i386: block migration and savevm if invariant tsc is exposed
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 16:28:12 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140422192812.GB12972@amt.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140422191200.416302523@amt.cnet>

On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 04:10:44PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> Invariant TSC documentation mentions that "invariant TSC will run at a
> constant rate in all ACPI P-, C-. and T-states".
> 
> This is not the case if migration to a host with different TSC frequency 
> is allowed, or if savevm is performed. So block migration/savevm.
> 
> Also do not expose invariant tsc flag by default.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
> 
> Index: qemu-invariant-tsc/target-i386/kvm.c
> ===================================================================
> --- qemu-invariant-tsc.orig/target-i386/kvm.c
> +++ qemu-invariant-tsc/target-i386/kvm.c
> @@ -33,6 +33,8 @@
>  #include "exec/ioport.h"
>  #include <asm/hyperv.h>
>  #include "hw/pci/pci.h"
> +#include "migration/migration.h"
> +#include "qapi/qmp/qerror.h"
>  
>  //#define DEBUG_KVM
>  
> @@ -447,6 +449,8 @@ static bool hyperv_enabled(X86CPU *cpu)
>              cpu->hyperv_relaxed_timing);
>  }
>  
> +Error *invtsc_mig_blocker;
> +
>  #define KVM_MAX_CPUID_ENTRIES  100
>  
>  int kvm_arch_init_vcpu(CPUState *cs)
> @@ -702,6 +706,16 @@ int kvm_arch_init_vcpu(CPUState *cs)
>                                    !!(c->ecx & CPUID_EXT_SMX);
>      }
>  
> +    c = cpuid_find_entry(&cpuid_data.cpuid, 0x80000007, 0);
> +    if (c && (c->edx & 1<<8)) {
> +        /* for migration */
> +        invtsc_mig_blocker = NULL;
> +        error_set(&invtsc_mig_blocker, QERR_MIGRATION_NOT_SUPPORTED, "cpu");
> +        migrate_add_blocker(invtsc_mig_blocker);
> +        /* for savevm */
> +        vmstate_x86_cpu.unmigratable = 1;
> +    }

Oops, broken with multiple CPUs. Please review the rest.


  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-22 19:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-22 19:10 [patch 0/2] expose invariant tsc flag for kvm guests Marcelo Tosatti
2014-04-22 19:10 ` [patch 1/2] target-i386: support "invariant tsc" flag Marcelo Tosatti
2014-04-23  0:26   ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-04-23  1:11     ` Eduardo Habkost
2014-04-22 19:10 ` [patch 2/2] target-i386: block migration and savevm if invariant tsc is exposed Marcelo Tosatti
2014-04-22 19:28   ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2014-04-22 20:38   ` Eduardo Habkost
2014-04-22 21:27     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2014-04-23  1:14       ` Eduardo Habkost
2014-04-24 20:42         ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-04-24 20:57           ` Eduardo Habkost
2014-04-24 22:57             ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-04-24 23:18               ` Eduardo Habkost
2014-04-25 21:08                 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-04-28 15:46                   ` Eduardo Habkost
2014-04-28 19:06                     ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-04-28 19:23                       ` Eduardo Habkost
2014-04-29  6:22                         ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-04-29 14:29                           ` Eduardo Habkost
2014-04-23 18:20 ` [patch 0/2] expose invariant tsc flag for kvm guests (v2) Marcelo Tosatti
2014-04-23 18:20   ` [patch 1/2] target-i386: support "invariant tsc" flag Marcelo Tosatti
2014-04-23 19:04     ` Eduardo Habkost
2014-04-23 18:20   ` [patch 2/2] target-i386: block migration and savevm if invariant tsc is exposed Marcelo Tosatti
2014-04-23 19:09     ` Eduardo Habkost
2014-04-23 21:04       ` target-i386: block migration and savevm if invariant tsc is exposed (v3) Marcelo Tosatti
2014-04-24 19:21         ` Eduardo Habkost
2014-04-24 21:32           ` Marcelo Tosatti
2014-04-25 20:38             ` Eduardo Habkost
2014-04-25 22:47               ` [PATCH] savevm: check vmsd for migratability status Marcelo Tosatti
2014-04-28 20:36                 ` Eduardo Habkost
2014-04-30  0:39                   ` [PATCH] savevm: check vmsd for migratability status (v2) Marcelo Tosatti
2014-04-30 15:47                     ` [Qemu-devel] " Eduardo Habkost
2014-04-25 22:47               ` target-i386: block migration and savevm if invariant tsc is exposed (v3) Marcelo Tosatti

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