linux/arch/x86
Marcelo Tosatti d828199e84 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>
2012-11-27 23:29:13 -02:00
..
boot x86, boot: Explicitly include autoconf.h for hostprogs 2012-10-14 12:41:28 -07:00
configs x86/Kconfig: Turn off DEBUG_NX_TEST module in defconfigs 2012-09-05 10:43:12 +02:00
crypto crypto: aesni - fix XTS mode on x86-32, add wrapper function for asmlinkage aesni_enc() 2012-10-18 14:01:33 -07:00
ia32 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal 2012-10-10 12:02:25 +09:00
include KVM: x86: implement PVCLOCK_TSC_STABLE_BIT pvclock flag 2012-11-27 23:29:13 -02:00
kernel x86: kvm guest: pvclock vsyscall support 2012-11-27 23:29:10 -02:00
kvm KVM: x86: implement PVCLOCK_TSC_STABLE_BIT pvclock flag 2012-11-27 23:29:13 -02:00
lguest virtio: remove CONFIG_VIRTIO_RING 2012-09-28 15:05:15 +09:30
lib UAPI: x86: Fix insn_sanity build failure after UAPI split 2012-10-02 18:01:56 +01:00
math-emu x86: Rename trap_no to trap_nr in thread_struct 2012-03-13 06:24:09 +01:00
mm x86, mm: Undo incorrect revert in arch/x86/mm/init.c 2012-10-25 15:45:45 -07:00
net x86: bpf_jit_comp: add XOR instruction for BPF JIT 2012-09-24 16:54:35 -04:00
oprofile oprofile, x86: Fix wrapping bug in op_x86_get_ctrl() 2012-10-15 14:38:24 +02:00
pci PCI changes for the 3.7 merge window: 2012-10-01 12:05:36 -07:00
platform EFI updates for 3.7 2012-10-26 10:17:38 +02:00
power x86, kvm: Call restore_sched_clock_state() only after %gs is initialized 2012-04-02 13:53:00 +02:00
realmode x86, suspend: Correct the restore of CR4, EFER; skip computing EFLAGS.ID 2012-10-02 08:42:31 +02:00
syscalls Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal 2012-10-10 12:02:25 +09:00
tools UAPI: x86: Fix the test_get_len tool 2012-10-02 18:01:56 +01:00
um Merge branch 'modules-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux 2012-10-14 13:39:34 -07:00
vdso x86: vdso: pvclock gettime support 2012-11-27 23:29:11 -02:00
video x86: Use vga_default_device() when determining whether an fb is primary 2012-04-24 09:50:17 +01:00
xen Merge commit 'v3.7-rc1' into stable/for-linus-3.7 2012-10-19 15:19:19 -04:00
.gitignore x86/kprobes: Add arch/x86/tools/insn_sanity to .gitignore 2012-01-16 08:21:59 +01:00
Kbuild x86, realmode: realmode.bin infrastructure 2012-05-08 11:41:48 -07:00
Kconfig Merge branch 'modules-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux 2012-10-14 13:39:34 -07:00
Kconfig.cpu x86/Kconfig: Clean up Kconfig defaults 2012-09-13 17:45:33 +02:00
Kconfig.debug x86/tlb: add tlb_flushall_shift knob into debugfs 2012-06-27 19:29:10 -07:00
Makefile kbuild: Fix accidental revert in commit fe04ddf 2012-10-15 13:01:05 -07:00
Makefile_32.cpu
Makefile.um um: fix linker script generation 2012-04-09 13:59:00 -04:00