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From: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
To: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org,
	x86@kernel.org
Cc: sstabellini@kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
	mingo@redhat.com, bp@alien8.de, hans@knorrie.org,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] xen: Fix x86 sched_clock() interface for xen
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 08:54:29 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <93146de6-24ec-c914-2d1e-718762f97d65@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190114124413.3742-1-jgross@suse.com>

On 1/14/19 7:44 AM, Juergen Gross wrote:
> Commit f94c8d11699759 ("sched/clock, x86/tsc: Rework the x86 'unstable'
> sched_clock() interface") broke Xen guest time handling across
> migration:
>
> [  187.249951] Freezing user space processes ... (elapsed 0.001 seconds) done.
> [  187.251137] OOM killer disabled.
> [  187.251137] Freezing remaining freezable tasks ... (elapsed 0.001 seconds) done.
> [  187.252299] suspending xenstore...
> [  187.266987] xen:grant_table: Grant tables using version 1 layout
> [18446743811.706476] OOM killer enabled.
> [18446743811.706478] Restarting tasks ... done.
> [18446743811.720505] Setting capacity to 16777216
>
> Fix that by setting xen_sched_clock_offset at resume time to ensure a
> monotonic clock value.
>
> Fixes: f94c8d11699759 ("sched/clock, x86/tsc: Rework the x86 'unstable' sched_clock() interface")
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.11
> Reported-by: Hans van Kranenburg <hans@knorrie.org>
> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>

Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>



  reply	other threads:[~2019-01-14 13:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-14 12:44 [PATCH v3] xen: Fix x86 sched_clock() interface for xen Juergen Gross
2019-01-14 13:54 ` Boris Ostrovsky [this message]
2019-01-16  0:26   ` Hans van Kranenburg
2019-01-15 10:43 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-01-15 11:03   ` Juergen Gross
2019-01-16  0:24 ` Hans van Kranenburg
2019-01-16  7:50   ` Juergen Gross
2019-01-16 13:17     ` Boris Ostrovsky
2019-01-16 14:33       ` Juergen Gross
2019-01-16 15:07         ` Boris Ostrovsky
2019-01-16 15:29           ` Juergen Gross
2019-01-16 18:29             ` Boris Ostrovsky

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