Re: [RFC PATCH v3 13/21] KVM: x86: Improve synchronization in kvm_synchronize_tsc()

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On 22/05/2024 01:17, David Woodhouse wrote:
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

When synchronizing to an existing TSC (either by explicitly writing zero,
or the legacy hack where the TSC is written within one second's worth of
the previously written TSC), the last_tsc_write and last_tsc_nsec values
were being misrecorded by __kvm_synchronize_tsc(). The *unsynchronized*
value of the TSC (perhaps even zero) was bring recorded, along with the
current time at which kvm_synchronize_tsc() was called. This could cause
*subsequent* writes to fail to synchronize correctly.

Fix that by resetting {data, ns} to the previous values before passing
them to __kvm_synchronize_tsc() when synchronization is detected. Except
in the case where the TSC is unstable and *has* to be synthesised from
the host clock, in which case attempt to create a nsec/tsc pair which is
on the correct line.

Furthermore, there were *three* different TSC reads used for calculating
the "current" time, all slightly different from each other. Fix that by
using kvm_get_time_and_clockread() where possible and using the same
host_tsc value in all cases.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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  arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
  1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)


Reviewed-by: Paul Durrant <paul@xxxxxxx>





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