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 10/17] KVM: x86: Fix KVM clock precision in get_kvmclock() with TSC scaling
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2026 16:39:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260804233923.3504629-11-seanjc@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260804233923.3504629-1-seanjc@google.com>
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
When in master clock mode, the KVM clock is defined in terms of the
guest TSC. But get_kvmclock() was computing it from the host TSC
without applying TSC scaling, leading to a systemic drift from the
values the guest computes from its own TSC.
Store the VM's TSC scaling ratio in kvm_arch and precompute the
guest-TSC-based mul/shift in pvclock_update_vm_gtod_copy(). Use these
in get_kvmclock() to scale the host TSC delta to guest TSC before
converting to nanoseconds.
This avoids "definition C" of the KVM clock described in commit
633d7652f80f ("KVM: x86/xen: Do not corrupt KVM clock in
kvm_xen_shared_info_init()").
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 4 +++
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 61 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
2 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index 6ddc988576d0..2878a5181cd9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -1236,6 +1236,7 @@ struct kvm_arch {
u64 last_tsc_write;
u32 last_tsc_khz;
u64 last_tsc_offset;
+ u64 last_tsc_scaling_ratio;
u64 cur_tsc_nsec;
u64 cur_tsc_write;
u64 cur_tsc_offset;
@@ -1251,6 +1252,9 @@ struct kvm_arch {
u64 master_kernel_ns;
u64 master_cycle_now;
struct ratelimit_state kvmclock_update_rs;
+ u64 master_tsc_scaling_ratio;
+ s8 master_tsc_shift;
+ u32 master_tsc_mul;
#ifdef CONFIG_KVM_HYPERV
struct kvm_hv hyperv;
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 7768a8909cf8..f13100a7a63e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -1247,6 +1247,7 @@ static void __kvm_synchronize_tsc(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 offset, u64 tsc,
kvm->arch.last_tsc_write = tsc;
kvm->arch.last_tsc_khz = vcpu->arch.virtual_tsc_khz;
kvm->arch.last_tsc_offset = offset;
+ kvm->arch.last_tsc_scaling_ratio = vcpu->arch.l1_tsc_scaling_ratio;
vcpu->arch.last_guest_tsc = tsc;
@@ -1559,6 +1560,8 @@ static bool kvm_get_walltime_and_clockread(struct timespec64 *ts,
*
*/
+static unsigned long get_cpu_tsc_khz(void);
+
static void pvclock_update_vm_gtod_copy(struct kvm *kvm)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
@@ -1582,9 +1585,30 @@ static void pvclock_update_vm_gtod_copy(struct kvm *kvm)
&& !ka->backwards_tsc_observed
&& !ka->boot_vcpu_runs_old_kvmclock;
- if (ka->use_master_clock)
+ if (ka->use_master_clock) {
+ u64 tsc_hz;
+
atomic_set(&kvm_guest_has_master_clock, 1);
+ /*
+ * Copy the scaling ratio and precompute the mul/shift for
+ * converting guest TSC to nanoseconds. These are used by
+ * get_kvmclock() to compute kvmclock from the host TSC
+ * without needing a vCPU reference.
+ */
+ ka->master_tsc_scaling_ratio = ka->last_tsc_scaling_ratio;
+ tsc_hz = (u64)get_cpu_tsc_khz() * HZ_PER_KHZ;
+ if (tsc_hz && kvm_caps.has_tsc_control)
+ tsc_hz = kvm_scale_tsc(tsc_hz,
+ ka->master_tsc_scaling_ratio);
+ if (tsc_hz)
+ kvm_get_time_scale(NSEC_PER_SEC, tsc_hz,
+ &ka->master_tsc_shift,
+ &ka->master_tsc_mul);
+ else
+ ka->use_master_clock = false;
+ }
+
vclock_mode = pvclock_gtod_data.clock.vclock_mode;
trace_kvm_update_master_clock(ka->use_master_clock, vclock_mode,
vcpus_matched);
@@ -1658,22 +1682,10 @@ static bool __get_kvmclock_master_clock(struct kvm *kvm,
struct kvm_arch *ka = &kvm->arch;
struct pvclock_vcpu_time_info hv_clock;
struct timespec64 ts;
- u64 tsc_hz;
if (!ka->use_master_clock)
return false;
- /*
- * Snapshot and validate the TSC frequency as kvmclock_cpu_down_prep()
- * zeros the per-CPU value when a CPU is going offline.
- */
- get_cpu();
- tsc_hz = (u64)get_cpu_tsc_khz() * HZ_PER_KHZ;
- put_cpu();
-
- if (!tsc_hz)
- return false;
-
if (!kvm_get_walltime_and_clockread(&ts, &data->host_tsc))
return false;
@@ -1683,10 +1695,25 @@ static bool __get_kvmclock_master_clock(struct kvm *kvm,
hv_clock.tsc_timestamp = ka->master_cycle_now;
hv_clock.system_time = ka->master_kernel_ns + ka->kvmclock_offset;
- kvm_get_time_scale(NSEC_PER_SEC, tsc_hz,
- &hv_clock.tsc_shift,
- &hv_clock.tsc_to_system_mul);
- data->clock = __pvclock_read_cycles(&hv_clock, data->host_tsc);
+
+ /*
+ * Use the precomputed guest-TSC-based mul/shift so that the kvmclock
+ * value matches what the guest computes from its own TSC.
+ */
+ hv_clock.tsc_shift = ka->master_tsc_shift;
+ hv_clock.tsc_to_system_mul = ka->master_tsc_mul;
+
+ if (kvm_caps.has_tsc_control) {
+ u64 tsc_delta = data->host_tsc - ka->master_cycle_now;
+
+ tsc_delta = kvm_scale_tsc(tsc_delta, ka->master_tsc_scaling_ratio);
+ data->clock = hv_clock.system_time +
+ pvclock_scale_delta(tsc_delta,
+ hv_clock.tsc_to_system_mul,
+ hv_clock.tsc_shift);
+ } else {
+ data->clock = __pvclock_read_cycles(&hv_clock, data->host_tsc);
+ }
return true;
#else
return false;
--
2.55.0.571.g244d577d93-goog
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Thread overview: 30+ 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
2026-08-04 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 ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
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 ` [PATCH v8 17/17] KVM: x86: Remove implicit rdtsc() from kvm_compute_l1_tsc_offset() Sean Christopherson
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