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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> |
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| assigned-dev.c | ||
| async_pf.c | ||
| async_pf.h | ||
| coalesced_mmio.c | ||
| coalesced_mmio.h | ||
| eventfd.c | ||
| ioapic.c | ||
| ioapic.h | ||
| iodev.h | ||
| iommu.c | ||
| irq_comm.c | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| kvm_main.c | ||