From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757084Ab3FSP0N (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:26:13 -0400 Received: from smtp.citrix.com ([66.165.176.89]:46366 "EHLO SMTP.CITRIX.COM" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757028Ab3FSPZv (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:25:51 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.87,898,1363132800"; d="scan'208";a="32137912" From: David Vrabel To: CC: David Vrabel , Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , , John Stultz , Thomas Gleixner Subject: [PATCHv4 0/4] xen: maintain an accurate persistent clock in more cases Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:25:19 +0100 Message-ID: <1371655523-15609-1-git-send-email-david.vrabel@citrix.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.2.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Xen guests use the Xen wallclock as their persistent clock. This is a software only clock in the hypervisor that is used by guests instead of a real hardware RTC. The kernel has limited support for updating the persistent clock or RTC when NTP is synced. This has the following limitations: * The persistent clock is not updated on step changes. This leaves a window where it will be incorrect (while NTP resyncs). * Xen guests use the Xen wallclock as their persistent clock. dom0 maintains this clock so it is persistent for domUs but not dom0 itself. These limitations mean that guests started before NTP is synchronized will start with an incorrect wallclock time and the hardware RTC will not be updated (as on bare metal). These series fixes the above limitations and depends on "x86: increase precision of x86_platform.get/set_wallclock()" which was previously posted. Patch 1 is a prerequisite. It removes a call to clock_was_set() from the Xen suspend/resume code. Changes since v3: Add a new clock_was_set notifier chain. Use this instead of direct calls to clock_was_set() from the timekeeping code. Use this notifier and a new timer to synchronize the Xen wallclock. Changes since v2: Don't peek at the timekeeper internals (use __current_kernel_time() instead). Use the native set_wallclock hook in dom0. Changes since v1: Reworked to use the pvclock_gtod notifier to sync the wallclock (this looked similar to what a KVM host does). update_persistent_clock() will now only update the CMOS RTC. David