Re: [PATCH] qemu: Report the offset from host UTC for RTC_CHANGE event

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On 04/06/13 20:59, Eric Blake wrote:
On 06/04/2013 05:49 AM, Osier Yang wrote:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=964177

Though both libvirt and QEMU's document say RTC_CHANGE returns
the offset from the host UTC, qemu actually returns the offset
from the specified date instead when specific date is privided
s/privided/provided/

(-rtc base=$date).

It's not safe for qemu to fix it in code, it worked like that
for 3 years, changing it now may break other QEMU use cases.
What qemu tries to do is to fix the document:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2013-05/msg04782.html

And in libvirt side, instead of reply on the qemu, this covert
s/covert/convert/

the offset returned from qemu to the offset from host UTC, by:

   /*
    * a: the offset from qemu RTC_CHANGE event
    * b: The specified date (-rtc base=$date)
    * c: the host date when libvirt gets the RTC_CHANGE event
    * offset: What libvirt will report
    */

   offset = a + (b - c);

The specified date (-rtc base=$date) is recorded in clock's def as
an internal only member (may be useful to exposed outside?).
---
  src/conf/domain_conf.h  |  3 +++
  src/qemu/qemu_command.c |  3 +++
  src/qemu/qemu_process.c | 12 ++++++++++++
  3 files changed, 18 insertions(+)
Incomplete.  You need to track the start time across libvirtd restarts
(in internal XML) for this to reliably work for an event received after
a restart; you also have to cope with a libvirtd restart not finding the
field in internal XML (because the libvirtd restart was due to upgrading
libvirt in the meantime).

Oh, right...

diff --git a/src/conf/domain_conf.h b/src/conf/domain_conf.h
index 3a71d6c..3947a56 100644
--- a/src/conf/domain_conf.h
+++ b/src/conf/domain_conf.h
@@ -1767,6 +1767,9 @@ struct _virDomainClockDef {
          struct {
              long long adjustment;
              int basis;
+
+            /* Store the start time of guest process, internaly only */
Spelling; either 'internal' or 'internally'

+            time_t starttime;
          } variable;
/* Timezone name, when
diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_command.c b/src/qemu/qemu_command.c
index c4a162a..9254525 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_command.c
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_command.c
@@ -5518,6 +5518,9 @@ qemuBuildClockArgStr(virDomainClockDefPtr def)
          now += def->data.variable.adjustment;
          gmtime_r(&now, &nowbits);
+ /* Store the starttime of qemu process */
+        def->data.variable.starttime = now;
Is there anything we can read out of /proc/nnn for the qemu process that
would give us a more accurate start time?  In fact, why not use
virProcessGetStartTime()?  And if virProcessGetStartTime is reliable
across libvirtd restarts, then you might not need to store a time_t
starttime in _virDomainClockDef.


I tried this.

virProcessGetStartTime reads the "starttime" from /proc/$pid/stat,
which is either jiffies or clock ticks since the system boot. Something
like this (sysinfo.uptime is from system boot time too):

    if (vm->def->clock.offset == VIR_DOMAIN_CLOCK_OFFSET_VARIABLE) {
        if (virProcessGetStartTime(vm->pid, &starttime) < 0) {
            VIR_WARN("unable to get domain process start time");
        } else {
            struct sysinfo info;
            ignore_value(sysinfo(&info));

            /* Convert domain process's starttime (jiffies) into seconds */
            starttime = starttime / sysconf(_SC_CLK_TCK);

            /* Seconds of date specified with "-rtc=$date" */
rtctime = starttime + vm->def->clock.data.variable.orig_adjustment;

/* QEMU's RTC_CHANGE event returns the offset from the specified
             * date instead of the host UTC if a specific date is provided
             * to "-rtc" (-rtc=$date). To emit a offset from host UTC, we
* need to plus the "offset" from qemu with the "offset" between
             * the specific date and current host date.
             */
            offset += rtctime - info.uptime;
        }
    }

Don't mind the "ignore_value(sysinfo(&info))", it's draft code.

I changed to store the whole specified date in "starttime" of clock def,
because I don't know if there is a portable lib call instead of the "sysinfo",
do you have any ideas? Thanks.

Osier

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