It's needed to notify the KVM guest about critical changes in pvclock and make it to update its masterclock. This is a part of the work aiming to make kvmclock be a clocksource providing valid cycles value for KVM masterclock, another words make possible to use KVM masterclock over kvmclock clocksource. Signed-off-by: Denis Plotnikov <dplotnikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kernel/pvclock.c | 19 ++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/pvclock.c b/arch/x86/kernel/pvclock.c index bece384..5898f20 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/pvclock.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/pvclock.c @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ #include <linux/gfp.h> #include <linux/bootmem.h> #include <linux/nmi.h> +#include <linux/cs_notifier.h> #include <asm/fixmap.h> #include <asm/pvclock.h> @@ -73,6 +74,8 @@ u8 pvclock_read_flags(struct pvclock_vcpu_time_info *src) return flags & valid_flags; } +static atomic_t clocksource_stable = ATOMIC_INIT(0); + u64 pvclock_clocksource_read(struct pvclock_vcpu_time_info *src, u64 *cycles_stamp, u8 *flags_stamp) { @@ -102,10 +105,20 @@ u64 pvclock_clocksource_read(struct pvclock_vcpu_time_info *src, pvclock_touch_watchdogs(); } - if ((valid_flags & PVCLOCK_TSC_STABLE_BIT) && - (flags & PVCLOCK_TSC_STABLE_BIT)) - return ret; + if (likely(valid_flags & PVCLOCK_TSC_STABLE_BIT)) { + bool stable_now = !!(flags & PVCLOCK_TSC_STABLE_BIT); + bool stable_last = (bool) atomic_read(&clocksource_stable); + + if (unlikely(stable_now != stable_last)) { + /* send notification once */ + if (stable_last == atomic_cmpxchg( + &clocksource_stable, stable_last, stable_now)) + clocksource_changes_notify(); + } + if (stable_now) + return ret; + } /* * Assumption here is that last_value, a global accumulator, always goes * forward. If we are less than that, we should not be much smaller. -- 2.7.4