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authorMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>2012-11-27 23:29:01 -0200
committerMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>2012-11-27 23:29:13 -0200
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KVM: x86: implement PVCLOCK_TSC_STABLE_BIT pvclock flag
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(&timespec); 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>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/kvm_host.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/kvm_host.h3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kvm_host.h b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
index 99a4762..c94c9985 100644
--- a/include/linux/kvm_host.h
+++ b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
@@ -131,6 +131,8 @@ static inline bool is_error_page(struct page *page)
#define KVM_REQ_PMU 16
#define KVM_REQ_PMI 17
#define KVM_REQ_WATCHDOG 18
+#define KVM_REQ_MASTERCLOCK_UPDATE 19
+#define KVM_REQ_MCLOCK_INPROGRESS 20
#define KVM_USERSPACE_IRQ_SOURCE_ID 0
#define KVM_IRQFD_RESAMPLE_IRQ_SOURCE_ID 1
@@ -540,6 +542,7 @@ void kvm_put_guest_fpu(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
void kvm_flush_remote_tlbs(struct kvm *kvm);
void kvm_reload_remote_mmus(struct kvm *kvm);
+void kvm_make_mclock_inprogress_request(struct kvm *kvm);
long kvm_arch_dev_ioctl(struct file *filp,
unsigned int ioctl, unsigned long arg);
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