As noted by Gleb, not advertising SSE2 support implies no RDTSC barriers. Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@xxxxxxxxxx> Index: vsyscall/arch/x86/include/asm/pvclock.h =================================================================== --- vsyscall.orig/arch/x86/include/asm/pvclock.h +++ vsyscall/arch/x86/include/asm/pvclock.h @@ -74,6 +74,12 @@ unsigned __pvclock_read_cycles(const str u8 ret_flags; version = src->version; + /* Note: emulated platforms which do not advertise SSE2 support + * result in kvmclock not using the necessary RDTSC barriers. + * Without barriers, it is possible that RDTSC instruction reads from + * the time stamp counter outside rdtsc_barrier protected section + * below, resulting in violation of monotonicity. + */ rdtsc_barrier(); offset = pvclock_get_nsec_offset(src); ret = src->system_time + offset; -- 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
