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[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v2] make tsc stable over migration and machine s
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Jan Kiszka |
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[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v2] make tsc stable over migration and machine start |
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Wed, 02 Feb 2011 14:07:04 +0100 |
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On 2011-02-02 13:16, Glauber Costa wrote:
> If the machine is stopped, we should not record two different tsc values
> upon a save operation. The same problem happens with kvmclock.
>
> But kvmclock is taking a different diretion, being now seen as a separate
> device. Since this is unlikely to happen with the tsc, I am taking the
> approach here of simply registering a handler for state change, and
> using a per-CPUState variable that prevents double updates for the TSC.
>
> Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <address@hidden>
> CC: Jan Kiszka <address@hidden>
>
> ---
> v2: updated tsc validation logic, as asked by Jan
> ---
> target-i386/cpu.h | 1 +
> target-i386/kvm.c | 18 +++++++++++++++++-
> 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/target-i386/cpu.h b/target-i386/cpu.h
> index 6d619e8..6bb2e87 100644
> --- a/target-i386/cpu.h
> +++ b/target-i386/cpu.h
> @@ -732,6 +732,7 @@ typedef struct CPUX86State {
> uint32_t sipi_vector;
> uint32_t cpuid_kvm_features;
> uint32_t cpuid_svm_features;
> + bool tsc_valid;
>
> /* in order to simplify APIC support, we leave this pointer to the
> user */
> diff --git a/target-i386/kvm.c b/target-i386/kvm.c
> index ecb8405..9cc198a 100644
> --- a/target-i386/kvm.c
> +++ b/target-i386/kvm.c
> @@ -302,6 +302,15 @@ void kvm_inject_x86_mce(CPUState *cenv, int bank,
> uint64_t status,
>
> static int _kvm_arch_init_vcpu(CPUState *env);
>
> +static void cpu_update_state(void *opaque, int running, int reason)
> +{
> + CPUState *env = opaque;
> +
> + if (running) {
> + env->tsc_valid = false;
> + }
> +}
> +
> int kvm_arch_init_vcpu(CPUState *env)
> {
> int r;
> @@ -444,6 +453,8 @@ int kvm_arch_init_vcpu(CPUState *env)
> }
> #endif
>
> + qemu_add_vm_change_state_handler(cpu_update_state, env);
> +
> return kvm_vcpu_ioctl(env, KVM_SET_CPUID2, &cpuid_data);
> }
>
> @@ -1093,7 +1104,12 @@ static int kvm_get_msrs(CPUState *env)
> msrs[n++].index = MSR_STAR;
> if (kvm_has_msr_hsave_pa(env))
> msrs[n++].index = MSR_VM_HSAVE_PA;
> - msrs[n++].index = MSR_IA32_TSC;
> +
> + if (!env->tsc_valid) {
> + msrs[n++].index = MSR_IA32_TSC;
> + env->tsc_valid = !vm_running;
> + }
> +
> #ifdef TARGET_X86_64
> if (lm_capable_kernel) {
> msrs[n++].index = MSR_CSTAR;
Yep.
Reviewed-by: Jan Kiszka <address@hidden>
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