linux/arch/x86
Zachary Amsden b183aa580a KVM: Fix last_guest_tsc / tsc_offset semantics
The variable last_guest_tsc was being used as an ad-hoc indicator
that guest TSC has been initialized and recorded correctly.  However,
it may not have been, it could be that guest TSC has been set to some
large value, the back to a small value (by, say, a software reboot).

This defeats the logic and causes KVM to falsely assume that the
guest TSC has gone backwards, marking the host TSC unstable, which
is undesirable behavior.

In addition, rather than try to compute an offset adjustment for the
TSC on unstable platforms, just recompute the whole offset.  This
allows us to get rid of one callsite for adjust_tsc_offset, which
is problematic because the units it takes are in guest units, but
here, the computation was originally being done in host units.

Doing this, and also recording last_guest_tsc when the TSC is written
allow us to remove the tricky logic which depended on last_guest_tsc
being zero to indicate a reset of uninitialized value.

Instead, we now have the guarantee that the guest TSC offset is
always at least something which will get us last_guest_tsc.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2012-03-08 14:10:05 +02:00
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boot x86/boot-image: Don't leak phdrs in arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c::Parse_elf() 2012-01-26 11:30:29 +01:00
configs
crypto crypto: serpent-sse2 - remove unneeded LRW/XTS #ifdefs 2011-12-20 15:20:08 +08:00
ia32 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit 2012-01-17 16:41:31 -08:00
include/asm KVM: Improve TSC offset matching 2012-03-08 14:10:03 +02:00
kernel x86: Introduce x86_cpuinit.early_percpu_clock_init hook 2012-03-05 14:57:32 +02:00
kvm KVM: Fix last_guest_tsc / tsc_offset semantics 2012-03-08 14:10:05 +02:00
lguest lguest: Make sure interrupt is allocated ok by lguest_setup_irq 2012-01-12 15:44:47 +10:30
lib Merge branches 'sched-urgent-for-linus', 'perf-urgent-for-linus' and 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2012-01-19 14:53:06 -08:00
math-emu
mm Merge branches 'core-urgent-for-linus', 'perf-urgent-for-linus', 'sched-urgent-for-linus' and 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2012-02-02 11:11:13 -08:00
net net: bpf_jit: fix divide by 0 generation 2012-01-18 16:04:26 -05:00
oprofile
pci xen pvhvm: do not remap pirqs onto evtchns if !xen_have_vector_callback 2012-02-03 16:06:27 -05:00
platform x86/uv: Fix uninitialized spinlocks 2012-01-26 10:58:34 +01:00
power
syscalls
tools
um uml: fix compile for x86-64 2012-01-18 19:26:11 -08:00
vdso
video
xen xen/pat: Disable PAT support for now. 2012-02-20 10:41:35 -05:00
.gitignore x86/kprobes: Add arch/x86/tools/insn_sanity to .gitignore 2012-01-16 08:21:59 +01:00
Kbuild
Kconfig x86/numachip: Drop unnecessary conflict with EDAC 2012-01-26 11:03:03 +01:00
Kconfig.cpu mm,x86,um: move CMPXCHG_DOUBLE config option 2012-01-12 20:13:03 -08:00
Kconfig.debug Merge branch 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2012-01-11 19:13:40 -08:00
Makefile
Makefile_32.cpu
Makefile.um