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    SubjectRe: [patch 00/11] x86/vdso: Cleanups, simmplifications and CLOCK_TAI support
    On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 04:00:29PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
    > On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 3:28 PM Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> wrote:
    > >
    > > On Tue, Oct 09, 2018 at 01:09:42PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
    > > > On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 8:28 AM Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> wrote:
    > > > >
    > > > > On Mon, Oct 08, 2018 at 10:38:22AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
    > > > > > On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 8:27 AM Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> wrote:
    > > >
    > > > > > I read the comment three more times and even dug through the git
    > > > > > history. It seems like what you're saying is that, under certain
    > > > > > conditions (which arguably would be bugs in the core Linux timing
    > > > > > code),
    > > > >
    > > > > I don't see that as a bug. Its just a side effect of reading two
    > > > > different clocks (one is CLOCK_MONOTONIC and the other is TSC),
    > > > > and using those two clocks to as a "base + offset".
    > > > >
    > > > > As the comment explains, if you do that, can't guarantee monotonicity.
    > > > >
    > > > > > actually calling ktime_get_boot_ns() could be non-monotonic
    > > > > > with respect to the kvmclock timing. But get_kvmclock_ns() isn't used
    > > > > > for VM timing as such -- it's used for the IOCTL interfaces for
    > > > > > updating the time offset. So can you explain how my patch is
    > > > > > incorrect?
    > > > >
    > > > > ktime_get_boot_ns() has frequency correction applied, while
    > > > > reading masterclock + TSC offset does not.
    > > > >
    > > > > So the clock reads differ.
    > > > >
    > > >
    > > > Ah, okay, I finally think I see what's going on. In the kvmclock data
    > > > exposed to the guest, tsc_shift and tsc_to_system_mul come from
    > > > tgt_tsc_khz, whereas master_kernel_ns and master_cycle_now come from
    > > > CLOCK_BOOTTIME. So the kvmclock and kernel clock drift apart at a
    > > > rate given by the frequency shift and then suddenly agree again every
    > > > time the pvclock data is updated.
    > >
    > > Yes.
    > >
    > > > Is there a reason to do it this way?
    > >
    > > Since pvclock updates which update system_timestamp are expensive (must stop all vcpus),
    > > they should be avoided.
    > >
    >
    > Fair enough.
    >
    > > So only HW TSC counts
    >
    > makes sense.
    >
    > >, and used as offset against vcpu's tsc_timestamp.
    > >
    >
    > Why don't you just expose CLOCK_MONTONIC_RAW or CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW
    > plus suspend time, though? Then you would actually be tracking a real
    > kernel timekeeping mode, and you wouldn't need all this complicated
    > offsetting work to avoid accidentally going backwards.

    Can you outline how that would work ?

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