This reverts commits 0a4e6be9ca
and 80f7fdb1c7.
The task migration notifier was originally introduced in order to support
the pvclock vsyscall with non-synchronized TSC, but KVM only supports it
with synchronized TSC. Hence, on KVM the race condition is only needed
due to a bad implementation on the host side, and even then it's so rare
that it's mostly theoretical.
As far as KVM is concerned it's possible to fix the host, avoiding the
additional complexity in the vDSO and the (re)introduction of the task
migration notifier.
Xen, on the other hand, hasn't yet implemented vsyscall support at
all, so we do not care about its plans for non-synchronized TSC.
Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Suggested-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
The following point:
2. per-CPU pvclock time info is updated if the
underlying CPU changes.
Is not true anymore since "KVM: x86: update pvclock area conditionally,
on cpu migration".
Add task migration notification back.
Problem noticed by Andy Lutomirski.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
CC: stable@kernel.org # 3.11+
Implement reset of kernel watchdogs at pvclock read time. This avoids
adding special code to every watchdog.
This is possible for watchdogs which measure time based on sched_clock() or
ktime_get() variants.
Suggested by Don Zickus.
Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Linux as a guest on KVM hypervisor, the only user of the pvclock
vsyscall interface, does not require notification on task migration
because:
1. cpu ID number maps 1:1 to per-CPU pvclock time info.
2. per-CPU pvclock time info is updated if the
underlying CPU changes.
3. that version is increased whenever underlying CPU
changes.
Which is sufficient to guarantee nanoseconds counter
is calculated properly.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Originally from Jeremy Fitzhardinge.
Introduce generic, non hypervisor specific, pvclock initialization
routines.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Originally from Jeremy Fitzhardinge.
So code can be reused.
Acked-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Commit de2d1a524e ("KVM: Fix register corruption in pvclock_scale_delta")
introduced a mul instruction that may have only a memory operand; the
assembler therefore cannot select the correct size:
pvclock.s:229: Error: no instruction mnemonic suffix given and no register
operands; can't size instruction
In this example the assembler is:
#APP
mul -48(%rbp) ; shrd $32, %rdx, %rax
#NO_APP
A simple solution is to use mulq.
Signed-off-by: Duncan Sands <baldrick@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The 128-bit multiply in pvclock.h was missing an output constraint for
EDX which caused a register corruption to appear. Thanks to Ulrich for
diagnosing the EDX corruption and Avi for providing this fix.
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
If the guest domain has been suspend/resumed or migrated, then the
system clock backing the pvclock clocksource may revert to a smaller
value (ie, can be non-monotonic across the migration/save-restore).
Make sure we zero last_value in that case so that the domain
continues to see clock updates.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The scale_delta function for shift / multiply with 31-bit
precision moves to a common header so it can be used by both
kernel and kvm module.
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
This patch removes one padding byte and transform it into a flags
field. New versions of guests using pvclock will query these flags
upon each read.
Flags, however, will only be interpreted when the guest decides to.
It uses the pvclock_valid_flags function to signal that a specific
set of flags should be taken into consideration. Which flags are valid
are usually devised via HV negotiation.
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Acked-by: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Change header guards named "ASM_X86__*" to "_ASM_X86_*" since:
a. the double underscore is ugly and pointless.
b. no leading underscore violates namespace constraints.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
