[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] make tsc stable over migration and machine start

[Glauber Costa]

If the machine is stopped, we should not record two different tsc values
upon a save operation. The same problem happens with kvmclock.

But kvmclock is taking a different diretion, being now seen as a separate
device. Since this is unlikely to happen with the tsc, I am taking the
approach here of simply registering a handler for state change, and
using a per-CPUState variable that prevents double updates for the TSC.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <address@hidden>
CC: Jan Kiszka <address@hidden>

---
v2: updated tsc validation logic, as asked by Jan
v3: regenerated against uq/master
---
 target-i386/cpu.h |    1 +
 target-i386/kvm.c |   18 +++++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/target-i386/cpu.h b/target-i386/cpu.h
index af701a4..5f1df8b 100644
--- a/target-i386/cpu.h
+++ b/target-i386/cpu.h
@@ -734,6 +734,7 @@ typedef struct CPUX86State {
     uint32_t sipi_vector;
     uint32_t cpuid_kvm_features;
     uint32_t cpuid_svm_features;
+    bool tsc_valid;
     
     /* in order to simplify APIC support, we leave this pointer to the
        user */
diff --git a/target-i386/kvm.c b/target-i386/kvm.c
index 05010bb..ed9557e 100644
--- a/target-i386/kvm.c
+++ b/target-i386/kvm.c
@@ -301,6 +301,15 @@ void kvm_inject_x86_mce(CPUState *cenv, int bank, uint64_t 
status,
 #endif
 }
 
+static void cpu_update_state(void *opaque, int running, int reason)
+{
+    CPUState *env = opaque;
+
+    if (running) {
+        env->tsc_valid = false;
+    }
+}
+
 int kvm_arch_init_vcpu(CPUState *env)
 {
     struct {
@@ -434,6 +443,8 @@ int kvm_arch_init_vcpu(CPUState *env)
     }
 #endif
 
+    qemu_add_vm_change_state_handler(cpu_update_state, env);
+
     return kvm_vcpu_ioctl(env, KVM_SET_CPUID2, &cpuid_data);
 }
 
@@ -1061,7 +1072,12 @@ static int kvm_get_msrs(CPUState *env)
     if (has_msr_hsave_pa) {
         msrs[n++].index = MSR_VM_HSAVE_PA;
     }
-    msrs[n++].index = MSR_IA32_TSC;
+
+    if (!env->tsc_valid) {
+        msrs[n++].index = MSR_IA32_TSC;
+        env->tsc_valid = !vm_running;
+    }
+
 #ifdef TARGET_X86_64
     if (lm_capable_kernel) {
         msrs[n++].index = MSR_CSTAR;
-- 
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