Intel spec says that TMR needs to be set/cleared
when IRR is set, but kvm also clears it on EOI.
I did some tests on a real (AMD based) system,
and I see same TMR values both before
and after EOI, so I think it's a minor bug in kvm.
This patch fixes TMR to be set/cleared on IRR set
only as per spec.
And now that we don't clear TMR, we can save
an atomic read of TMR on EOI that's not propagated
to ioapic, by checking whether ioapic needs
a specific vector first and calculating
the mode afterwards.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
General support for the MMX instruction set. Special care is taken
to trap pending x87 exceptions so that they are properly reflected
to the guest.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
An Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala guest is unable to boot or install due to
missing movdqa emulation:
kvm_exit: reason EXCEPTION_NMI rip 0x7fef3e025a7b info 7fef3e799000 80000b0e
kvm_page_fault: address 7fef3e799000 error_code f
kvm_emulate_insn: 0:7fef3e025a7b: 66 0f 7f 07 (prot64)
movdqa %xmm0,(%rdi)
[avi: mark it explicitly aligned]
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
x86 defines three classes of vector instructions: explicitly
aligned (#GP(0) if unaligned, explicitly unaligned, and default
(which depends on the encoding: AVX is unaligned, SSE is aligned).
Add support for marking an instruction as explicitly aligned or
unaligned, and mark MOVDQU as unaligned.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Enable x86 feature-based autoloading for the kvm-amd module on CPUs
with X86_FEATURE_SVM.
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
On reset all MPU counters should be enabled in GLOBAL_CTRL MSR.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Iteration using rmap_next(), the actual body is pte_list_next(), is
inefficient: every time we call it we start from checking whether rmap
holds a single spte or points to a descriptor which links more sptes.
In the case of shadow paging, this quadratic total iteration cost is a
problem. Even for two dimensional paging, with EPT/NPT on, in which we
almost always have a single mapping, the extra checks at the end of the
iteration should be eliminated.
This patch fixes this by introducing rmap_iterator which keeps the
iteration context for the next search. Furthermore the implementation
of rmap_next() is splitted into two functions, rmap_get_first() and
rmap_get_next(), to avoid repeatedly checking whether the rmap being
iterated on has only one spte.
Although there seemed to be only a slight change for EPT/NPT, the actual
improvement was significant: we observed that GET_DIRTY_LOG for 1GB
dirty memory became 15% faster than before. This is probably because
the new code is easy to make branch predictions.
Note: we just remove pte_list_next() because we can think of parent_ptes
as a reverse mapping.
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
We have PTE_LIST_EXT + 1 pointers in this structure and these 40/20
bytes do not fit cache lines well. Furthermore, some allocators may
use 64/32-byte objects for the pte_list_desc cache.
This patch solves this problem by changing PTE_LIST_EXT from 4 to 3.
For shadow paging, the new size is still large enough to hold both the
kernel and process mappings for usual anonymous pages. For file
mappings, there may be a slight change in the cache usage.
Note: with EPT/NPT we almost always have a single spte in each reverse
mapping and we will not see any change by this.
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Since most guests will have paging enabled for memory management, add likely() optimization
around CR0.PG checks.
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Enable x86 feature-based autoloading for the kvm-intel module on CPUs
with X86_FEATURE_VMX.
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Acked-By: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
We have seen some problems of the current implementation of
get_dirty_log() which uses synchronize_srcu_expedited() for updating
dirty bitmaps; e.g. it is noticeable that this sometimes gives us ms
order of latency when we use VGA displays.
Furthermore the recent discussion on the following thread
"srcu: Implement call_srcu()"
http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/31/211
also motivated us to implement get_dirty_log() without SRCU.
This patch achieves this goal without sacrificing the performance of
both VGA and live migration: in practice the new code is much faster
than the old one unless we have too many dirty pages.
Implementation:
The key part of the implementation is the use of xchg() operation for
clearing dirty bits atomically. Since this allows us to update only
BITS_PER_LONG pages at once, we need to iterate over the dirty bitmap
until every dirty bit is cleared again for the next call.
Although some people may worry about the problem of using the atomic
memory instruction many times to the concurrently accessible bitmap,
it is usually accessed with mmu_lock held and we rarely see concurrent
accesses: so what we need to care about is the pure xchg() overheads.
Another point to note is that we do not use for_each_set_bit() to check
which ones in each BITS_PER_LONG pages are actually dirty. Instead we
simply use __ffs() in a loop. This is much faster than repeatedly call
find_next_bit().
Performance:
The dirty-log-perf unit test showed nice improvements, some times faster
than before, except for some extreme cases; for such cases the speed of
getting dirty page information is much faster than we process it in the
userspace.
For real workloads, both VGA and live migration, we have observed pure
improvements: when the guest was reading a file during live migration,
we originally saw a few ms of latency, but with the new method the
latency was less than 200us.
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Dropped such mappings when we enabled dirty logging and we will never
create new ones until we stop the logging.
For this we introduce a new function which can be used to write protect
a range of PT level pages: although we do not need to care about a range
of pages at this point, the following patch will need this feature to
optimize the write protection of many pages.
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
We will use this in the following patch to implement another function
which needs to write protect pages using the rmap information.
Note that there is a small change in debug printing for large pages:
we do not differentiate them from others to avoid duplicating code.
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Now that we have a flag that will tell the guest it was suspended, create an
interface for that communication using a KVM ioctl.
Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The kvm_vcpu_kick function performs roughly the same funcitonality on
most all architectures, so we shouldn't have separate copies.
PowerPC keeps a pointer to interchanging waitqueues on the vcpu_arch
structure and to accomodate this special need a
__KVM_HAVE_ARCH_VCPU_GET_WQ define and accompanying function
kvm_arch_vcpu_wq have been defined. For all other architectures this
is a generic inline that just returns &vcpu->wq;
Acked-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <c.dall@virtualopensystems.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Also count the exits of fast-path.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Intel recently release 2 new features, HLE and RTM.
Refer to http://software.intel.com/file/41417.
This patch expose them to guest.
Signed-off-by: Liu, Jinsong <jinsong.liu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
vmx_set_cr0 is called from vcpu run context, therefore it expects
kvm->srcu to be held (for setting up the real-mode TSS).
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Pull kvm updates from Avi Kivity:
"Changes include timekeeping improvements, support for assigning host
PCI devices that share interrupt lines, s390 user-controlled guests, a
large ppc update, and random fixes."
This is with the sign-off's fixed, hopefully next merge window we won't
have rebased commits.
* 'kvm-updates/3.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (130 commits)
KVM: Convert intx_mask_lock to spin lock
KVM: x86: fix kvm_write_tsc() TSC matching thinko
x86: kvmclock: abstract save/restore sched_clock_state
KVM: nVMX: Fix erroneous exception bitmap check
KVM: Ignore the writes to MSR_K7_HWCR(3)
KVM: MMU: make use of ->root_level in reset_rsvds_bits_mask
KVM: PMU: add proper support for fixed counter 2
KVM: PMU: Fix raw event check
KVM: PMU: warn when pin control is set in eventsel msr
KVM: VMX: Fix delayed load of shared MSRs
KVM: use correct tlbs dirty type in cmpxchg
KVM: Allow host IRQ sharing for assigned PCI 2.3 devices
KVM: Ensure all vcpus are consistent with in-kernel irqchip settings
KVM: x86 emulator: Allow PM/VM86 switch during task switch
KVM: SVM: Fix CPL updates
KVM: x86 emulator: VM86 segments must have DPL 3
KVM: x86 emulator: Fix task switch privilege checks
arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c: included linux/sched.h twice
KVM: x86 emulator: correctly mask pmc index bits in RDPMC instruction emulation
KVM: mmu_notifier: Flush TLBs before releasing mmu_lock
...
Pull x86/fpu changes from Ingo Molnar.
* 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
i387: Split up <asm/i387.h> into exported and internal interfaces
i387: Uninline the generic FP helpers that we expose to kernel modules
Pull kmap_atomic cleanup from Cong Wang.
It's been in -next for a long time, and it gets rid of the (no longer
used) second argument to k[un]map_atomic().
Fix up a few trivial conflicts in various drivers, and do an "evil
merge" to catch some new uses that have come in since Cong's tree.
* 'kmap_atomic' of git://github.com/congwang/linux: (59 commits)
feature-removal-schedule.txt: schedule the deprecated form of kmap_atomic() for removal
highmem: kill all __kmap_atomic() [swarren@nvidia.com: highmem: Fix ARM build break due to __kmap_atomic rename]
drbd: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
zcache: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
gma500: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
dm: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
tomoyo: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
sunrpc: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
rds: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
net: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
mm: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
lib: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
power: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
kdb: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
udf: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
ubifs: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
squashfs: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
reiserfs: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
ocfs2: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
ntfs: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
...
kvm_write_tsc() converts from guest TSC to microseconds, not nanoseconds
as intended. The result is that the window for matching is 1000 seconds,
not 1 second.
Microsecond precision is enough for checking whether the TSC write delta
is within the heuristic values, so use it instead of nanoseconds.
Noted by Avi Kivity.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The code which checks whether to inject a pagefault to L1 or L2 (in
nested VMX) was wrong, incorrect in how it checked the PF_VECTOR bit.
Thanks to Dan Carpenter for spotting this.
Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@il.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
When CPUID Fn8000_0001_EAX reports 0x00100f22 Windows 7 x64 guest
tries to set bit 3 in MSRC001_0015 in nt!KiDisableCacheErrataSource
and fails. This patch will ignore this step and allow things to move
on without having to fake CPUID value.
Signed-off-by: Nicolae Mogoreanu <mogoreanu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The reset_rsvds_bits_mask() function can use the guest walker's root level
number instead of using a separate 'level' variable.
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Currently pmu emulation emulates fixed counter 2 as bus cycles
architectural counter, but since commit 9c1497ea591b25d perf has
pseudo encoding for it. Use it.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
If eventsel has EDGE, INV or CMASK set we should create raw counter for
it, but the check is done on a wrong variable. Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Print warning once if pin control bit is set in eventsel msr since
emulation does not support it yet.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Shared MSRs (MSR_*STAR and related) are stored in both vmx->guest_msrs
and in the CPU registers, but vmx_set_msr() only updated memory. Prior
to 46199f33c2953, this didn't matter, since we called vmx_load_host_state(),
which scheduled a vmx_save_host_state(), which re-synchronized the CPU
state, but now we don't, so the CPU state will not be synchronized until
the next exit to host userspace. This mostly affects nested vmx workloads,
which play with these MSRs a lot.
Fix by loading the MSR eagerly.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
PCI 2.3 allows to generically disable IRQ sources at device level. This
enables us to share legacy IRQs of such devices with other host devices
when passing them to a guest.
The new IRQ sharing feature introduced here is optional, user space has
to request it explicitly. Moreover, user space can inform us about its
view of PCI_COMMAND_INTX_DISABLE so that we can avoid unmasking the
interrupt and signaling it if the guest masked it via the virtualized
PCI config space.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Acked-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
If some vcpus are created before KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP, then
irqchip_in_kernel() and vcpu->arch.apic will be inconsistent, leading
to potential NULL pointer dereferences.
Fix by:
- ensuring that no vcpus are installed when KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP is called
- ensuring that a vcpu has an apic if it is installed after KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP
This is somewhat long winded because vcpu->arch.apic is created without
kvm->lock held.
Based on earlier patch by Michael Ellerman.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Task switches can switch between Protected Mode and VM86. The current
mode must be updated during the task switch emulation so that the new
segment selectors are interpreted correctly.
In order to let privilege checks succeed, rflags needs to be updated in
the vcpu struct as this causes a CPL update.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Keep CPL at 0 in real mode and at 3 in VM86. In protected/long mode, use
RPL rather than DPL of the code segment.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Setting the segment DPL to 0 for at least the VM86 code segment makes
the VM entry fail on VMX.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Currently, all task switches check privileges against the DPL of the
TSS. This is only correct for jmp/call to a TSS. If a task gate is used,
the DPL of this take gate is used for the check instead. Exceptions,
external interrupts and iret shouldn't perform any check.
[avi: kill kvm-kmod remnants]
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Some members of kvm_memory_slot are not used by every architecture.
This patch is the first step to make this difference clear by
introducing kvm_memory_slot::arch; lpage_info is moved into it.
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This patch cleans up the code and removes the "(void)level;" warning
suppressor.
Note that we can also use this for PT_PAGE_TABLE_LEVEL to treat every
level uniformly later.
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This patch fixes a race introduced by:
commit 95d4c16ce78cb6b7549a09159c409d52ddd18dae
KVM: Optimize dirty logging by rmap_write_protect()
During protecting pages for dirty logging, other threads may also try
to protect a page in mmu_sync_children() or kvm_mmu_get_page().
In such a case, because get_dirty_log releases mmu_lock before flushing
TLB's, the following race condition can happen:
A (get_dirty_log) B (another thread)
lock(mmu_lock)
clear pte.w
unlock(mmu_lock)
lock(mmu_lock)
pte.w is already cleared
unlock(mmu_lock)
skip TLB flush
return
...
TLB flush
Though thread B assumes the page has already been protected when it
returns, the remaining TLB entry will break that assumption.
This patch fixes this problem by making get_dirty_log hold the mmu_lock
until it flushes the TLB's.
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
yield_on_hlt was introduced for CPU bandwidth capping. Now it is
redundant with CFS hardlimit.
yield_on_hlt also complicates the scenario in paravirtual environment,
that needs to trap halt. for e.g. paravirtualized ticket spinlocks.
Acked-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This allows us to track the original nanosecond and counter values
at each phase of TSC writing by the guest. This gets us perfect
offset matching for stable TSC systems, and perfect software
computed TSC matching for machines with unstable TSC.
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
During a host suspend, TSC may go backwards, which KVM interprets
as an unstable TSC. Technically, KVM should not be marking the
TSC unstable, which causes the TSC clocksource to go bad, but we
need to be adjusting the TSC offsets in such a case.
Dealing with this issue is a little tricky as the only place we
can reliably do it is before much of the timekeeping infrastructure
is up and running. On top of this, we are not in a KVM thread
context, so we may not be able to safely access VCPU fields.
Instead, we compute our best known hardware offset at power-up and
stash it to be applied to all VCPUs when they actually start running.
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Redefine the API to take a parameter indicating whether an
adjustment is in host or guest cycles.
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The variable last_host_tsc was removed from upstream code. I am adding
it back for two reasons. First, it is unnecessary to use guest TSC
computation to conclude information about the host TSC. The guest may
set the TSC backwards (this case handled by the previous patch), but
the computation of guest TSC (and fetching an MSR) is significanlty more
work and complexity than simply reading the hardware counter. In addition,
we don't actually need the guest TSC for any part of the computation,
by always recomputing the offset, we can eliminate the need to deal with
the current offset and any scaling factors that may apply.
The second reason is that later on, we are going to be using the host
TSC value to restore TSC offsets after a host S4 suspend, so we need to
be reading the host values, not the guest values here.
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The variable last_guest_tsc was being used as an ad-hoc indicator
that guest TSC has been initialized and recorded correctly. However,
it may not have been, it could be that guest TSC has been set to some
large value, the back to a small value (by, say, a software reboot).
This defeats the logic and causes KVM to falsely assume that the
guest TSC has gone backwards, marking the host TSC unstable, which
is undesirable behavior.
In addition, rather than try to compute an offset adjustment for the
TSC on unstable platforms, just recompute the whole offset. This
allows us to get rid of one callsite for adjust_tsc_offset, which
is problematic because the units it takes are in guest units, but
here, the computation was originally being done in host units.
Doing this, and also recording last_guest_tsc when the TSC is written
allow us to remove the tricky logic which depended on last_guest_tsc
being zero to indicate a reset of uninitialized value.
Instead, we now have the guarantee that the guest TSC offset is
always at least something which will get us last_guest_tsc.
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Currently, when the TSC is written by the guest, the variable
ns is updated to force the current write to appear to have taken
place at the time of the first write in this sync phase. This
leaves a cliff at the end of the match window where updates will
fall of the end. There are two scenarios where this can be a
problem in practe - first, on a system with a large number of
VCPUs, the sync period may last for an extended period of time.
The second way this can happen is if the VM reboots very rapidly
and we catch a VCPU TSC synchronization just around the edge.
We may be unaware of the reboot, and thus the first VCPU might
synchronize with an old set of the timer (at, say 0.97 seconds
ago, when first powered on). The second VCPU can come in 0.04
seconds later to try to synchronize, but it misses the window
because it is just over the threshold.
Instead, stop doing this artificial setback of the ns variable
and just update it with every write of the TSC.
It may be observed that doing so causes values computed by
compute_guest_tsc to diverge slightly across CPUs - note that
the last_tsc_ns and last_tsc_write variable are used here, and
now they last_tsc_ns will be different for each VCPU, reflecting
the actual time of the update.
However, compute_guest_tsc is used only for guests which already
have TSC stability issues, and further, note that the previous
patch has caused last_tsc_write to be incremented by the difference
in nanoseconds, converted back into guest cycles. As such, only
boundary rounding errors should be visible, which given the
resolution in nanoseconds, is going to only be a few cycles and
only visible in cross-CPU consistency tests. The problem can be
fixed by adding a new set of variables to track the start offset
and start write value for the current sync cycle.
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
