53fafdbb8b
Commit 0bc48bea36d1 ("KVM: x86: update master clock before computing
kvmclock_offset")
switches the order of operations to avoid the conversion
TSC (without frequency correction) ->
system_timestamp (with frequency correction),
which might cause a time jump.
However, it leaves any other masterclock update unsafe, which includes,
at the moment:
* HV_X64_MSR_REFERENCE_TSC MSR write.
* TSC writes.
* Host suspend/resume.
Avoid the time jump issue by using frequency uncorrected
CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW clock.
Its the guests time keeping software responsability
to track and correct a reference clock such as UTC.
This fixes forward time jump (which can result in
failure to bring up a vCPU) during vCPU hotplug:
Oct 11 14:48:33 storage kernel: CPU2 has been hot-added
Oct 11 14:48:34 storage kernel: CPU3 has been hot-added
Oct 11 14:49:22 storage kernel: smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 2 APIC 0x2 <-- time jump of almost 1 minute
Oct 11 14:49:22 storage kernel: smpboot: do_boot_cpu failed(-1) to wakeup CPU#2
Oct 11 14:49:23 storage kernel: smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 3 APIC 0x3
Oct 11 14:49:23 storage kernel: kvm-clock: cpu 3, msr 0:7ff640c1, secondary cpu clock
Which happens because:
/*
* Wait 10s total for a response from AP
*/
boot_error = -1;
timeout = jiffies + 10*HZ;
while (time_before(jiffies, timeout)) {
...
}
Analyzed-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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