The VMCB is reset whenever we receive a startup IPI, so Linux is setting TSC back to zero happens very late in the boot process and destabilizing the TSC. Instead, just set TSC to zero once at VCPU creation time. Why the separate patch? So git-bisect is your friend. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c index 74e4522..e8bfe8e 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c @@ -781,7 +781,6 @@ static void init_vmcb(struct vcpu_svm *svm) control->iopm_base_pa = iopm_base; control->msrpm_base_pa = __pa(svm->msrpm); - kvm_write_tsc(&svm->vcpu, 0); control->int_ctl = V_INTR_MASKING_MASK; init_seg(&save->es); @@ -917,6 +916,7 @@ static struct kvm_vcpu *svm_create_vcpu(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned int id) svm->vmcb_pa = page_to_pfn(page) << PAGE_SHIFT; svm->asid_generation = 0; init_vmcb(svm); + kvm_write_tsc(&svm->vcpu, 0); err = fx_init(&svm->vcpu); if (err) -- 1.7.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
