Linux as a guest on KVM hypervisor, the only user of the pvclock
vsyscall interface, does not require notification on task migration
because:
1. cpu ID number maps 1:1 to per-CPU pvclock time info.
2. per-CPU pvclock time info is updated if the
underlying CPU changes.
3. that version is increased whenever underlying CPU
changes.
Which is sufficient to guarantee nanoseconds counter
is calculated properly.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
The physical memory fixmapped for the pvclock clock_gettime vsyscall
was allocated, and thus is not a kernel symbol. __pa() is the proper
method to use in this case.
Fixes the crash below when booting a next-20130204+ smp guest on a
3.8-rc5+ KVM host.
[ 0.666410] udevd[97]: starting version 175
[ 0.674043] udevd[97]: udevd:[97]: segfault at ffffffffff5fd020
ip 00007fff069e277f sp 00007fff068c9ef8 error d
Acked-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Originally from Jeremy Fitzhardinge.
Introduce generic, non hypervisor specific, pvclock initialization
routines.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Originally from Jeremy Fitzhardinge.
So code can be reused.
Acked-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Originally from Jeremy Fitzhardinge.
We can copy the information directly from "struct pvclock_vcpu_time_info",
remove pvclock_shadow_time.
Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Originally from Jeremy Fitzhardinge.
pvclock_get_time_values, which contains the memory barriers
will be removed by next patch.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
