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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 v9 04/21] KVM: x86: Activate master clock immediately on vCPU creation
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:54:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260810225500.869288-5-seanjc@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260810225500.869288-1-seanjc@google.com>

From: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>

Previously, the master clock was only activated when the first vCPU
processed KVM_REQ_MASTERCLOCK_UPDATE during KVM_RUN. This meant that
KVM_GET_CLOCK could not return the host_tsc field until after the
first KVM_RUN, making it impossible for userspace to follow the
documented TSC migration procedure without a dummy vCPU run.

Fix this by calling kvm_update_masterclock() directly from
kvm_arch_vcpu_postcreate(), after kvm_synchronize_tsc() has already
set all_vcpus_matched_freq. This ensures the master clock is active
immediately, and KVM_GET_CLOCK returns a valid {host_tsc, realtime}
pair as soon as a vCPU exists.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index ce6d155b2ee6..137a1dd2b85a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -9447,6 +9447,8 @@ void kvm_arch_vcpu_postcreate(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 		return;
 	vcpu_load(vcpu);
 	kvm_synchronize_tsc(vcpu, NULL);
+	if (kvm_check_request(KVM_REQ_MASTERCLOCK_UPDATE, vcpu))
+		kvm_update_masterclock(vcpu->kvm);
 	vcpu_put(vcpu);
 
 	/* poll control enabled by default */
-- 
2.55.0.679.g6767b8d81c-goog


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-08-10 22:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-10 22:54 [PATCH v9 00/21] KVM: x86: Cleaning up the KVM clock mess, part 1 Sean Christopherson
2026-08-10 22:54 ` [PATCH v9 01/21] KVM: x86: Update "last guest TSC" snapshot prior to enabling IRQs/preemption Sean Christopherson
2026-08-10 22:54 ` [PATCH v9 02/21] KVM: x86: Improve accuracy of KVM clock when TSC scaling is in force Sean Christopherson
2026-08-10 22:54 ` [PATCH v9 03/21] KVM: x86: Explicitly disable TSC scaling without CONSTANT_TSC Sean Christopherson
2026-08-10 22:54 ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
2026-08-10 22:54 ` [PATCH v9 05/21] KVM: x86: Compute kvmclock base without pvclock_gtod_data Sean Christopherson
2026-08-10 22:54 ` [PATCH v9 06/21] KVM: x86: Avoid NTP frequency skew for KVM clock on 32-bit host Sean Christopherson
2026-08-10 22:54 ` [PATCH v9 07/21] KVM: x86: Drop unnecessary CPU pinning when computing/getting kvmclock Sean Christopherson
2026-08-10 22:54 ` [PATCH v9 08/21] KVM: x86: Move "no master clock" fallback from __get_kvmclock() to get_kvmclock() Sean Christopherson
2026-08-10 22:54 ` [PATCH v9 09/21] KVM: x86: Wrap all of __get_kvmclock_master_clock() with CONFIG_X86_64=y Sean Christopherson
2026-08-10 22:54 ` [PATCH v9 10/21] KVM: x86: Fall back to non-master-clock if clockread fails in get_kvmclock() Sean Christopherson
2026-08-10 22:54 ` [PATCH v9 11/21] KVM: x86: Fix KVM clock precision in get_kvmclock() with TSC scaling Sean Christopherson
2026-08-10 22:54 ` [PATCH v9 12/21] KVM: x86: Use get_kvmclock() in kvm_get_wall_clock_epoch() Sean Christopherson
2026-08-10 22:54 ` [PATCH v9 13/21] KVM: x86: Fix compute_guest_tsc() to handle negative time deltas Sean Christopherson
2026-08-10 22:54 ` [PATCH v9 14/21] KVM: x86: Disable preemption, not IRQs, when getting TSC+freq pair Sean Christopherson
2026-08-10 22:54 ` [PATCH v9 15/21] KVM: x86: Make master clock logic in guest PV clock updates 64-bit only Sean Christopherson
2026-08-10 22:54 ` [PATCH v9 16/21] KVM: x86: Upscale TSC to "now", not master clock when updating PV clocks Sean Christopherson
2026-08-10 22:54 ` [PATCH v9 17/21] KVM: x86: Simplify and comment kvm_get_time_scale() Sean Christopherson
2026-08-10 22:54 ` [PATCH v9 18/21] KVM: x86: Remove implicit rdtsc() from kvm_compute_l1_tsc_offset() Sean Christopherson
2026-08-10 22:54 ` [PATCH v9 19/21] KVM: x86: Use kernel timekeeping snapshots for getting kvmclock time since boot Sean Christopherson
2026-08-10 22:54 ` [PATCH v9 20/21] KVM: x86: Use kernel timekeeping snapshot for monotonic clock Sean Christopherson
2026-08-10 22:54 ` [PATCH v9 21/21] KVM: x86: Use kernel timekeeping snapshot to get walltime+TSC Sean Christopherson

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