Pull kvm fixes from Gleb Natapov:
"Most of the fixes are in the emulator since now we emulate more than
we did before for correctness sake we see more bugs there, but there
is also an OOPS fixed and corruption of xcr0 register."
* tag 'kvm-3.10-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
KVM: emulator: emulate SALC
KVM: emulator: emulate XLAT
KVM: emulator: emulate AAM
KVM: VMX: fix halt emulation while emulating invalid guest sate
KVM: Fix kvm_irqfd_init initialization
KVM: x86: fix maintenance of guest/host xcr0 state
Pull MIPS updates from Ralf Baechle:
- More work on DT support for various platforms
- Various fixes that were to late to make it straight into 3.9
- Improved platform support, in particular the Netlogic XLR and
BCM63xx, and the SEAD3 and Malta eval boards.
- Support for several Ralink SOC families.
- Complete support for the microMIPS ASE which basically reencodes the
existing MIPS32/MIPS64 ISA to use non-constant size instructions.
- Some fallout from LTO work which remove old cruft and will generally
make the MIPS kernel easier to maintain and resistant to compiler
optimization, even in absence of LTO.
- KVM support. While MIPS has announced hardware virtualization
extensions this KVM extension uses trap and emulate mode for
virtualization of MIPS32. More KVM work to add support for VZ
hardware virtualizaiton extensions and MIPS64 will probably already
be merged for 3.11.
Most of this has been sitting in -next for a long time. All defconfigs
have been build or run time tested except three for which fixes are being
sent by other maintainers.
Semantic conflict with kvm updates done as per Ralf
* 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus: (118 commits)
MIPS: Add new GIC clockevent driver.
MIPS: Formatting clean-ups for clocksources.
MIPS: Refactor GIC clocksource code.
MIPS: Move 'gic_frequency' to common location.
MIPS: Move 'gic_present' to common location.
MIPS: MIPS16e: Add unaligned access support.
MIPS: MIPS16e: Support handling of delay slots.
MIPS: MIPS16e: Add instruction formats.
MIPS: microMIPS: Optimise 'strnlen' core library function.
MIPS: microMIPS: Optimise 'strlen' core library function.
MIPS: microMIPS: Optimise 'strncpy' core library function.
MIPS: microMIPS: Optimise 'memset' core library function.
MIPS: microMIPS: Add configuration option for microMIPS kernel.
MIPS: microMIPS: Disable LL/SC and fix linker bug.
MIPS: microMIPS: Add vdso support.
MIPS: microMIPS: Add unaligned access support.
MIPS: microMIPS: Support handling of delay slots.
MIPS: microMIPS: Add support for exception handling.
MIPS: microMIPS: Floating point support.
MIPS: microMIPS: Fix macro naming in micro-assembler.
...
Pull kvm updates from Gleb Natapov:
"Highlights of the updates are:
general:
- new emulated device API
- legacy device assignment is now optional
- irqfd interface is more generic and can be shared between arches
x86:
- VMCS shadow support and other nested VMX improvements
- APIC virtualization and Posted Interrupt hardware support
- Optimize mmio spte zapping
ppc:
- BookE: in-kernel MPIC emulation with irqfd support
- Book3S: in-kernel XICS emulation (incomplete)
- Book3S: HV: migration fixes
- BookE: more debug support preparation
- BookE: e6500 support
ARM:
- reworking of Hyp idmaps
s390:
- ioeventfd for virtio-ccw
And many other bug fixes, cleanups and improvements"
* tag 'kvm-3.10-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (204 commits)
kvm: Add compat_ioctl for device control API
KVM: x86: Account for failing enable_irq_window for NMI window request
KVM: PPC: Book3S: Add API for in-kernel XICS emulation
kvm/ppc/mpic: fix missing unlock in set_base_addr()
kvm/ppc: Hold srcu lock when calling kvm_io_bus_read/write
kvm/ppc/mpic: remove users
kvm/ppc/mpic: fix mmio region lists when multiple guests used
kvm/ppc/mpic: remove default routes from documentation
kvm: KVM_CAP_IOMMU only available with device assignment
ARM: KVM: iterate over all CPUs for CPU compatibility check
KVM: ARM: Fix spelling in error message
ARM: KVM: define KVM_ARM_MAX_VCPUS unconditionally
KVM: ARM: Fix API documentation for ONE_REG encoding
ARM: KVM: promote vfp_host pointer to generic host cpu context
ARM: KVM: add architecture specific hook for capabilities
ARM: KVM: perform HYP initilization for hotplugged CPUs
ARM: KVM: switch to a dual-step HYP init code
ARM: KVM: rework HYP page table freeing
ARM: KVM: enforce maximum size for identity mapped code
ARM: KVM: move to a KVM provided HYP idmap
...
This API shouldn't have 32/64-bit issues, but VFS assumes it does
unless told otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
This adds the API for userspace to instantiate an XICS device in a VM
and connect VCPUs to it. The API consists of a new device type for
the KVM_CREATE_DEVICE ioctl, a new capability KVM_CAP_IRQ_XICS, which
functions similarly to KVM_CAP_IRQ_MPIC, and the KVM_IRQ_LINE ioctl,
which is used to assert and deassert interrupt inputs of the XICS.
The XICS device has one attribute group, KVM_DEV_XICS_GRP_SOURCES.
Each attribute within this group corresponds to the state of one
interrupt source. The attribute number is the same as the interrupt
source number.
This does not support irq routing or irqfd yet.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
The hassle of getting refcounting right was greater than the hassle
of keeping a list of devices to destroy on VM exit.
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Hook the MPIC code up to the KVM interfaces, add locking, etc.
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
[agraf: add stub function for kvmppc_mpic_set_epr, non-booke, 64bit]
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Currently, devices that are emulated inside KVM are configured in a
hardcoded manner based on an assumption that any given architecture
only has one way to do it. If there's any need to access device state,
it is done through inflexible one-purpose-only IOCTLs (e.g.
KVM_GET/SET_LAPIC). Defining new IOCTLs for every little thing is
cumbersome and depletes a limited numberspace.
This API provides a mechanism to instantiate a device of a certain
type, returning an ID that can be used to set/get attributes of the
device. Attributes may include configuration parameters (e.g.
register base address), device state, operational commands, etc. It
is similar to the ONE_REG API, except that it acts on devices rather
than vcpus.
Both device types and individual attributes can be tested without having
to create the device or get/set the attribute, without the need for
separately managing enumerated capabilities.
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Now that we have most irqfd code completely platform agnostic, let's move
irqfd's resample capability return to generic code as well.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
The IRQ routing set ioctl lives in the hacky device assignment code inside
of KVM today. This is definitely the wrong place for it. Move it to the much
more natural kvm_main.c.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Quite a bit of code in KVM has been conditionalized on availability of
IOAPIC emulation. However, most of it is generically applicable to
platforms that don't have an IOPIC, but a different type of irq chip.
Make code that only relies on IRQ routing, not an APIC itself, on
CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_IRQ_ROUTING, so that we can reuse it later.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Only deliver the posted interrupt when target vcpu is running
and there is no previous interrupt pending in pir.
Signed-off-by: Yang Zhang <yang.z.zhang@Intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Both TMR and EOI exit bitmap need to be updated when ioapic changed
or vcpu's id/ldr/dfr changed. So use common function instead eoi exit
bitmap specific function.
Signed-off-by: Yang Zhang <yang.z.zhang@Intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Userspace may deliver RTC interrupt without query the status. So we
want to track RTC EOI for this case.
Signed-off-by: Yang Zhang <yang.z.zhang@Intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
The routine kvm_spurious_fault() is an x86 specific routine, so
move it from virt/kvm/kvm_main.c to arch/x86/kvm/x86.c.
Fixes this sparse warning when building on arm64:
virt/kvm/kvm_main.c⚠️ symbol 'kvm_spurious_fault' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
The routines get_user_page_nowait(), kvm_io_bus_sort_cmp(), kvm_io_bus_insert_dev()
and kvm_io_bus_get_first_dev() are only referenced within kvm_main.c, so give them
static linkage.
Fixes sparse warnings like these:
virt/kvm/kvm_main.c: warning: symbol 'get_user_page_nowait' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
This patch adds support for kvm_gfn_to_hva_cache_init functions for
reads and writes that will cross a page. If the range falls within
the same memslot, then this will be a fast operation. If the range
is split between two memslots, then the slower kvm_read_guest and
kvm_write_guest are used.
Tested: Test against kvm_clock unit tests.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Honig <ahonig@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
This helps in filtering out the eligible candidates further and
thus potentially helps in quickly allowing preempted lockholders to run.
Note that if a vcpu was spinning during preemption we filter them
by checking whether they are preempted due to pause loop exit.
Reviewed-by: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Note that we mark as preempted only when vcpu's task state was
Running during preemption.
Thanks Jiannan, Avi for preemption notifier ideas. Thanks Gleb, PeterZ
for their precious suggestions. Thanks Srikar for an idea on avoiding
rcu lock while checking task state that improved overcommit numbers.
Reviewed-by: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Currently, eventfd introduces module_init/module_exit functions
to initialize/cleanup the irqfd workqueue. This only works, however,
if no other module_init/module_exit functions are built into the
same module.
Let's just move the initialization and cleanup to kvm_init and kvm_exit.
This way, it is also clearer where kvm startup may fail.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
This patch makes the parameter old a const pointer to the old memory
slot and adds a new parameter named change to know the change being
requested: the former is for removing extra copying and the latter is
for cleaning up the code.
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa_takuya_b1@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
This patch drops the parameter old, a copy of the old memory slot, and
adds a new parameter named change to know the change being requested.
This not only cleans up the code but also removes extra copying of the
memory slot structure.
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa_takuya_b1@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
This will be used for cleaning up prepare/commit_memory_region() later.
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa_takuya_b1@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Except ia64's stale code, KVM_SET_MEMORY_REGION support, this is only
used for sanity checks in __kvm_set_memory_region() which can easily
be changed to use slot id instead.
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa_takuya_b1@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
X86 does not use this any more. The remaining user, s390's !user_alloc
check, can be simply removed since KVM_SET_MEMORY_REGION ioctl is no
longer supported.
Note: fixed powerpc's indentations with spaces to suppress checkpatch
errors.
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa_takuya_b1@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
This field was needed to differentiate memory slots created by the new
API, KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION, from those by the old equivalent,
KVM_SET_MEMORY_REGION, whose support was dropped long before:
commit b74a07beed
KVM: Remove kernel-allocated memory regions
Although we also have private memory slots to which KVM allocates
memory with vm_mmap(), !user_alloc slots in other words, the slot id
should be enough for differentiating them.
Note: corresponding function parameters will be removed later.
Reviewed-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa_takuya_b1@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
As Xiao pointed out, there are a few problems with it:
- kvm_arch_commit_memory_region() write protects the memory slot only
for GET_DIRTY_LOG when modifying the flags.
- FNAME(sync_page) uses the old spte value to set a new one without
checking KVM_MEM_READONLY flag.
Since we flush all shadow pages when creating a new slot, the simplest
fix is to disallow such problematic flag changes: this is safe because
no one is doing such things.
Reviewed-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa_takuya_b1@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION forces __kvm_set_memory_region() to identify
what kind of change is being requested by checking the arguments. The
current code does this checking at various points in code and each
condition being used there is not easy to understand at first glance.
This patch consolidates these checks and introduces an enum to name the
possible changes to clean up the code.
Although this does not introduce any functional changes, there is one
change which optimizes the code a bit: if we have nothing to change, the
new code returns 0 immediately.
Note that the return value for this case cannot be changed since QEMU
relies on it: we noticed this when we changed it to -EINVAL and got a
section mismatch error at the final stage of live migration.
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa_takuya_b1@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
yield_to returns -ESRCH, When source and target of yield_to
run queue length is one. When we see three successive failures of
yield_to we assume we are in potential undercommit case and abort
from PLE handler.
The assumption is backed by low probability of wrong decision
for even worst case scenarios such as average runqueue length
between 1 and 2.
More detail on rationale behind using three tries:
if p is the probability of finding rq length one on a particular cpu,
and if we do n tries, then probability of exiting ple handler is:
p^(n+1) [ because we would have come across one source with rq length
1 and n target cpu rqs with length 1 ]
so
num tries: probability of aborting ple handler (1.5x overcommit)
1 1/4
2 1/8
3 1/16
We can increase this probability with more tries, but the problem is
the overhead.
Also, If we have tried three times that means we would have iterated
over 3 good eligible vcpus along with many non-eligible candidates. In
worst case if we iterate all the vcpus, we reduce 1x performance and
overcommit performance get hit.
note that we do not update last boosted vcpu in failure cases.
Thank Avi for raising question on aborting after first fail from yield_to.
Reviewed-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Virtual interrupt delivery avoids KVM to inject vAPIC interrupts
manually, which is fully taken care of by the hardware. This needs
some special awareness into existing interrupr injection path:
- for pending interrupt, instead of direct injection, we may need
update architecture specific indicators before resuming to guest.
- A pending interrupt, which is masked by ISR, should be also
considered in above update action, since hardware will decide
when to inject it at right time. Current has_interrupt and
get_interrupt only returns a valid vector from injection p.o.v.
Reviewed-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Yang Zhang <yang.z.zhang@Intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Memory slot flags can be altered without changing other parameters of
the slot. The read-only attribute is the only one the IOMMU cares
about, so generate an un-map, re-map when this occurs. This also
avoid unnecessarily re-mapping the slot when no IOMMU visible changes
are made.
Reviewed-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
One such variable, slot, is enough for holding a pointer temporarily.
We also remove another local variable named slot, which is limited in
a block, since it is confusing to have the same name in this function.
Reviewed-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa_takuya_b1@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Don't need the check for deleting an existing slot or just modifiying
the flags.
Reviewed-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa_takuya_b1@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
This makes the separation between the sanity checks and the rest of the
code a bit clearer.
Reviewed-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa_takuya_b1@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Calling kvm_mmu_slot_remove_write_access() for a deleted slot does
nothing but search for non-existent mmu pages which have mappings to
that deleted memory; this is safe but a waste of time.
Since we want to make the function rmap based in a later patch, in a
manner which makes it unsafe to be called for a deleted slot, we makes
the caller see if the slot is non-zero and being dirty logged.
Reviewed-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa_takuya_b1@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Move repetitive code sequence to a separate function.
Reviewed-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Previous patch "kvm: Minor memory slot optimization" (b7f69c555c)
overlooked the generation field of the memory slots. Re-using the
original memory slots left us with with two slightly different memory
slots with the same generation. To fix this, make update_memslots()
take a new parameter to specify the last generation. This also makes
generation management more explicit to avoid such problems in the future.
Reported-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa_takuya_b1@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
We're currently offering a whopping 32 memory slots to user space, an
int is a bit excessive for storing this. We would like to increase
our memslots, but SHRT_MAX should be more than enough.
Reviewed-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
There's no need for this to be an int, it holds a boolean.
Move to the end of the struct for alignment.
Reviewed-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
It's easy to confuse KVM_MEMORY_SLOTS and KVM_MEM_SLOTS_NUM. One is
the user accessible slots and the other is user + private. Make this
more obvious.
Reviewed-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
If a slot is removed or moved in the guest physical address space, we
first allocate and install a new slot array with the invalidated
entry. The old array is then freed. We then proceed to allocate yet
another slot array to install the permanent replacement. Re-use the
original array when this occurs and avoid the extra kfree/kmalloc.
Reviewed-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
The iommu integration into memory slots expects memory slots to be
added or removed and doesn't handle the move case. We can unmap
slots from the iommu after we mark them invalid and map them before
installing the final memslot array. Also re-order the kmemdup vs
map so we don't leave iommu mappings if we get ENOMEM.
Reviewed-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
The API documents that only flags and guest physical memory space can
be modified on an existing slot, but we don't enforce that the
userspace address cannot be modified. Instead we just ignore it.
This means that a user may think they've successfully moved both the
guest and user addresses, when in fact only the guest address changed.
Check and error instead.
Reviewed-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
The API documentation states:
When changing an existing slot, it may be moved in the guest
physical memory space, or its flags may be modified.
An "existing slot" requires a non-zero npages (memory_size). The only
transition we should therefore allow for a non-existing slot should be
to create the slot, which includes setting a non-zero memory_size. We
currently allow calls to modify non-existing slots, which is pointless,
confusing, and possibly wrong.
With this we know that the invalidation path of __kvm_set_memory_region
is always for a delete or move and never for adding a zero size slot.
Reviewed-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Prior to memory slot sorting this loop compared all of the user memory
slots for overlap with new entries. With memory slot sorting, we're
just checking some number of entries in the array that may or may not
be user slots. Instead, walk all the slots with kvm_for_each_memslot,
which has the added benefit of terminating early when we hit the first
empty slot, and skip comparison to private slots.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
KVM added a global variable to guarantee monotonicity in the guest.
One of the reasons for that is that the time between
1. ktime_get_ts(×pec);
2. rdtscll(tsc);
Is variable. That is, given a host with stable TSC, suppose that
two VCPUs read the same time via ktime_get_ts() above.
The time required to execute 2. is not the same on those two instances
executing in different VCPUS (cache misses, interrupts...).
If the TSC value that is used by the host to interpolate when
calculating the monotonic time is the same value used to calculate
the tsc_timestamp value stored in the pvclock data structure, and
a single <system_timestamp, tsc_timestamp> tuple is visible to all
vcpus simultaneously, this problem disappears. See comment on top
of pvclock_update_vm_gtod_copy for details.
Monotonicity is then guaranteed by synchronicity of the host TSCs
and guest TSCs.
Set TSC stable pvclock flag in that case, allowing the guest to read
clock from userspace.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Linus Torvalds