Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Zachary Amsden <> | Subject | [KVM timekeeping 05/35] Move TSC reset out of vmcb_init | Date | Thu, 19 Aug 2010 22:07:19 -1000 |
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The VMCB is reset whenever we receive a startup IPI, so Linux is setting TSC back to zero happens very late in the boot process and destabilizing the TSC. Instead, just set TSC to zero once at VCPU creation time.
Why the separate patch? So git-bisect is your friend.
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@redhat.com> --- arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c index 74e4522..e8bfe8e 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c @@ -781,7 +781,6 @@ static void init_vmcb(struct vcpu_svm *svm) control->iopm_base_pa = iopm_base; control->msrpm_base_pa = __pa(svm->msrpm); - kvm_write_tsc(&svm->vcpu, 0); control->int_ctl = V_INTR_MASKING_MASK; init_seg(&save->es); @@ -917,6 +916,7 @@ static struct kvm_vcpu *svm_create_vcpu(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned int id) svm->vmcb_pa = page_to_pfn(page) << PAGE_SHIFT; svm->asid_generation = 0; init_vmcb(svm); + kvm_write_tsc(&svm->vcpu, 0); err = fx_init(&svm->vcpu); if (err) -- 1.7.1
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