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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 12/21] KVM: x86: Use get_kvmclock() in kvm_get_wall_clock_epoch()
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:54:50 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260810225500.869288-13-seanjc@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260810225500.869288-1-seanjc@google.com>

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

Now that get_kvmclock() correctly handles TSC scaling and captures both
wallclock and kvmclock from the same TSC reading,
kvm_get_wall_clock_epoch() can simply call it instead of duplicating
the pvclock computation.

This eliminates the last instance of the "definition C" kvmclock
calculation — as described in commit 633d7652f80f ("KVM: x86/xen: Do not
corrupt KVM clock in kvm_xen_shared_info_init()") — which computed
nanoseconds directly from the host TSC without accounting for guest TSC
scaling.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 59 +++++++---------------------------------------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 61c65241554d..50e92090ba65 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -1939,63 +1939,22 @@ int kvm_guest_time_update(struct kvm_vcpu *v)
  * wallclock and kvmclock times, and subtracting one from the other.
  *
  * Fall back to using their values at slightly different moments by
- * calling ktime_get_real_ns() and get_kvmclock_ns() separately.
+ * calling ktime_get_real_ns() and get_kvmclock() separately.
  */
 uint64_t kvm_get_wall_clock_epoch(struct kvm *kvm)
 {
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
-	struct pvclock_vcpu_time_info hv_clock;
-	struct kvm_arch *ka = &kvm->arch;
-	unsigned long seq, local_tsc_khz;
-	struct timespec64 ts;
-	uint64_t host_tsc;
+	struct kvm_clock_data data;
 
-	do {
-		seq = read_seqcount_begin(&ka->pvclock_sc);
-
-		local_tsc_khz = 0;
-		if (!ka->use_master_clock)
-			break;
-
-		/*
-		 * The TSC read and the call to get_cpu_tsc_khz() must happen
-		 * on the same CPU.
-		 */
-		get_cpu();
-
-		local_tsc_khz = get_cpu_tsc_khz();
-
-		if (local_tsc_khz &&
-		    !kvm_get_walltime_and_clockread(&ts, &host_tsc))
-			local_tsc_khz = 0; /* Fall back to old method */
-
-		put_cpu();
-
-		/*
-		 * These values must be snapshotted within the seqcount loop.
-		 * After that, it's just mathematics which can happen on any
-		 * CPU at any time.
-		 */
-		hv_clock.tsc_timestamp = ka->master_cycle_now;
-		hv_clock.system_time = ka->master_kernel_ns + ka->kvmclock_offset;
-
-	} while (read_seqcount_retry(&ka->pvclock_sc, seq));
+	get_kvmclock(kvm, &data);
 
 	/*
-	 * If the conditions were right, and obtaining the wallclock+TSC was
-	 * successful, calculate the KVM clock at the corresponding time and
-	 * subtract one from the other to get the guest's epoch in nanoseconds
-	 * since 1970-01-01.
+	 * If get_kvmclock() captured both wallclock and kvmclock from the
+	 * same TSC reading, use them for a precise epoch calculation.
 	 */
-	if (local_tsc_khz) {
-		kvm_get_time_scale(NSEC_PER_SEC, local_tsc_khz * NSEC_PER_USEC,
-				   &hv_clock.tsc_shift,
-				   &hv_clock.tsc_to_system_mul);
-		return ts.tv_nsec + NSEC_PER_SEC * ts.tv_sec -
-			__pvclock_read_cycles(&hv_clock, host_tsc);
-	}
-#endif
-	return ktime_get_real_ns() - get_kvmclock_ns(kvm);
+	if (data.flags & KVM_CLOCK_REALTIME)
+		return data.realtime - data.clock;
+
+	return ktime_get_real_ns() - data.clock;
 }
 
 /*
-- 
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 ` [PATCH v9 04/21] KVM: x86: Activate master clock immediately on vCPU creation Sean Christopherson
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 ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
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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