Re: system time goes weird in kvm guest after host suspend/resume

Miklos Szeredi
2020-05-29T12:31:59Z

On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 2:21 PM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
>
> Miklos,
>
> Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> writes:
> > On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 11:51 AM Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> wrote:
> >> On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 10:43 PM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> writes:
> >> > > Bisected it to:
> >> > >
> >> > > b95a8a27c300 ("x86/vdso: Use generic VDSO clock mode storage")
> >> > >
> >> > > The effect observed is that after the host is resumed, the clock in
> >> > > the guest is somewhat in the future and is stopped. I.e. repeated
> >> > > date(1) invocations show the same time.
> >> >
> >> > TBH, the bisect does not make any sense at all. It's renaming the
> >> > constants and moving the storage space and I just read it line for line
> >> > again that the result is equivalent. I'll have a look once the merge
> >> > window dust settles a bit.
> >>
> >> Yet, reverting just that single commit against latest linus tree fixes
> >> the issue. Which I think is a pretty good indication that that commit
> >> *is* doing something.
>
> A revert on top of Linus latest surely does something, it disables VDSO
> because clocksource.vdso_clock_mode becomes NONE.
>
> That's a data point maybe, but it clearly does not restore the situation
> _before_ that commit.
>
> >> The jump forward is around 35 minutes; that seems to be consistent as
> >> well.
> >
> > Oh, and here's a dmesg extract for the good case:
> >
> > [ 26.402239] clocksource: timekeeping watchdog on CPU0: Marking
> > clocksource 'tsc' as unstable because the skew is too large:
> > [ 26.407029] clocksource: 'kvm-clock' wd_now:
> > 635480f3c wd_last: 3ce94a718 mask: ffffffffffffffff
> > [ 26.407632] clocksource: 'tsc' cs_now:
> > 92d2e5d08 cs_last: 81305ceee mask: ffffffffffffffff
> > [ 26.409097] tsc: Marking TSC unstable due to clocksource watchdog
> >
> > and the bad one:
> >
> > [ 36.667576] clocksource: timekeeping watchdog on CPU1: Marking
> > clocksource 'tsc' as unstable because the skew is too large:
> > [ 36.690441] clocksource: 'kvm-clock' wd_now:
> > 89885027c wd_last: 3ea987282 mask: ffffffffffffffff
> > [ 36.690994] clocksource: 'tsc' cs_now:
> > 95666ec22 cs_last: 84e747930 mask: ffffffffffffffff
> > [ 36.691901] tsc: Marking TSC unstable due to clocksource watchdog
>
> And the difference is? It's 10 seconds later and the detection happens
> on CPU1 and not on CPU0. I really don't see what you are reading out of
> this.

I didn't even try to interpret this. Just reporting what I'm seeing.

> Can you please describe the setup of this test?
>
> - Host kernel version
> - Guest kernel version
> - Is the revert done on the host or guest or both?
> - Test flow is:
>
> Boot host, start guest, suspend host, resume host, guest is screwed
>
> correct?

Yep.

Thanks,
Miklos