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* x86/pvclock: Zero last_value on resumeJeremy Fitzhardinge2010-11-281-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | If the guest domain has been suspend/resumed or migrated, then the system clock backing the pvclock clocksource may revert to a smaller value (ie, can be non-monotonic across the migration/save-restore). Make sure we zero last_value in that case so that the domain continues to see clock updates. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* x86, pvclock: Remove leftover scale_delta() functionKusanagi Kouichi2010-11-101-38/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit 92580d64e16402762e2acc3022f065397c780425 ("x86: pvclock: Move scale_delta into common header") forgot to remove scale_delta. Signed-off-by: Kusanagi Kouichi <slash@ac.auone-net.jp> Cc: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@redhat.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <20101105110444.BAF6D6FC03B@msa105.auone-net.jp> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* x86: pvclock: Move scale_delta into common headerZachary Amsden2010-10-241-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | The scale_delta function for shift / multiply with 31-bit precision moves to a common header so it can be used by both kernel and kvm module. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
* x86, paravirt: don't compute pvclock adjustments if we trust the tscGlauber Costa2010-05-191-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | If the HV told us we can fully trust the TSC, skip any correction Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com> Acked-by: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
* x86, paravirt: Add a global synchronization point for pvclockGlauber Costa2010-05-191-0/+24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In recent stress tests, it was found that pvclock-based systems could seriously warp in smp systems. Using ingo's time-warp-test.c, I could trigger a scenario as bad as 1.5mi warps a minute in some systems. (to be fair, it wasn't that bad in most of them). Investigating further, I found out that such warps were caused by the very offset-based calculation pvclock is based on. This happens even on some machines that report constant_tsc in its tsc flags, specially on multi-socket ones. Two reads of the same kernel timestamp at approx the same time, will likely have tsc timestamped in different occasions too. This means the delta we calculate is unpredictable at best, and can probably be smaller in a cpu that is legitimately reading clock in a forward ocasion. Some adjustments on the host could make this window less likely to happen, but still, it pretty much poses as an intrinsic problem of the mechanism. A while ago, I though about using a shared variable anyway, to hold clock last state, but gave up due to the high contention locking was likely to introduce, possibly rendering the thing useless on big machines. I argue, however, that locking is not necessary. We do a read-and-return sequence in pvclock, and between read and return, the global value can have changed. However, it can only have changed by means of an addition of a positive value. So if we detected that our clock timestamp is less than the current global, we know that we need to return a higher one, even though it is not exactly the one we compared to. OTOH, if we detect we're greater than the current time source, we atomically replace the value with our new readings. This do causes contention on big boxes (but big here means *BIG*), but it seems like a good trade off, since it provide us with a time source guaranteed to be stable wrt time warps. After this patch is applied, I don't see a single warp in time during 5 days of execution, in any of the machines I saw them before. Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com> Acked-by: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@redhat.com> CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> CC: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> CC: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> CC: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
* x86, paravirt: Enable pvclock flags in vcpu_time_info structureGlauber Costa2010-05-191-0/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch removes one padding byte and transform it into a flags field. New versions of guests using pvclock will query these flags upon each read. Flags, however, will only be interpreted when the guest decides to. It uses the pvclock_valid_flags function to signal that a specific set of flags should be taken into consideration. Which flags are valid are usually devised via HV negotiation. Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com> CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Acked-by: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
* x86: Fix warning in pvclock.cDave Jones2009-07-141-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | when building 32-bit, I see this .. arch/x86/kernel/pvclock.c:63:7: warning: "__x86_64__" is not defined Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <20090713201437.GA12165@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* x86: pvclock: fix shadowed variable warningHarvey Harrison2008-10-151-5/+5
| | | | | | | | | arch/x86/kernel/pvclock.c:102:6: warning: symbol 'tsc_khz' shadows an earlier one include/asm/tsc.h:18:21: originally declared here Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
* x86: paravirt: factor out cpu_khz to common codeGlauber Costa2008-10-151-0/+12
| | | | | | | | | KVM intends to use paravirt code to calibrate khz. Xen current code will do just fine. So as a first step, factor out code to pvclock.c. Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
* x86: Add structs and functions for paravirt clocksourceGerd Hoffmann2008-06-241-0/+141
This patch adds structs for the paravirt clocksource ABI used by both xen and kvm (pvclock-abi.h). It also adds some helper functions to read system time and wall clock time from a paravirtual clocksource (pvclock.[ch]). They are based on the xen code. They are enabled using CONFIG_PARAVIRT_CLOCK. Subsequent patches of this series will put the code in use. Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>