Just upgraded to 7.6, the problem is the same

Il giorno mer 2 ott 2024 alle ore 12:23 Luca Di Gregorio <luc...@gmail.com>
ha scritto:

> Hi, I re-open this issue because, configuring tsc clock in a
> debian guest, I still see time not working properly.
>
> I'm installed the debian VM on a different hardware.
>
> In dmesg of OpenBSD guest I see:
>
> # dmesg | grep -i clock
> cpu0: apic clock running at 1000MHz
> pvclock0 at pvbus0
>
> # dmesg | grep -i time
> acpitimer0 at acpi0: 3579545 Hz, 24 bits
>
>
> On the debian host I see:
> # dmesg | grep -i clock
> [    0.000000] Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.1.0-25-amd64
> root=UUID=6bc49085-38f1-42ca-b35c-a1380d901771 ro gfxpayload=text
> console=ttyS0,115200n8 quiet clocksource=tsc tsc=reliable
> [    0.000000] clocksource: refined-jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles:
> 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 7645519600211568 ns
> [    0.000000] Kernel command line:
> BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.1.0-25-amd64
> root=UUID=6bc49085-38f1-42ca-b35c-a1380d901771 ro gfxpayload=text
> console=ttyS0,115200n8 quiet clocksource=tsc tsc=reliable
> [    0.000001] clocksource: tsc-early: mask: 0xffffffffffffffff
> max_cycles: 0xa8712ffee66, max_idle_ns: 440795817477 ns
> [    0.004002] clocksource: jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles:
> 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 7645041785100000 ns
> [    0.008002] PTP clock support registered
> [    0.012087] clocksource: Switched to clocksource tsc-early
> [    0.448433] rtc_cmos rtc_cmos: setting system clock to
> 2024-10-02T10:09:31 UTC (1727863771)
> [    0.453391] sched_clock: Marking stable (465310107,
> -11997886)->(453268078, 44143)
> [    0.473602] clk: Disabling unused clocks
> [    1.047190] clocksource: tsc: mask: 0xffffffffffffffff max_cycles:
> 0xa8712ffee66, max_idle_ns: 440795817477 ns
> [    1.047194] clocksource: Switched to clocksource tsc
>
> # dmesg | grep -i time
> [    0.000002] Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using
> timer frequency.. 23371.32 BogoMIPS (lpj=46742656)
> [    0.051444] workingset: timestamp_bits=36 max_order=16 bucket_order=0
> [    0.791451] systemd-journald[186]: Received client request to flush
> runtime journal.
>
>
> Il giorno sab 21 ott 2023 alle ore 17:46 Luca Di Gregorio <
> luc...@gmail.com> ha scritto:
>
>> On debian guest:
>> # cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/current_clocksource
>> refined-jiffies
>> # cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/available_clocksource
>> refined-jiffies jiffies
>>
>> In */etc/default/grub *I appended clocksource=tsc tsc=reliable in the
>> variable GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT
>> Before:
>>    GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet"
>> After:
>>    GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet clocksource=tsc tsc=reliable"
>>
>> Update GRUB:
>> #sudo update-grub
>>
>> After rebooting:
>> # cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/current_clocksource
>> tsc
>> # cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/available_clocksource
>> tsc
>>
>> Now sleep on guest debian works as expected.
>>
>> Thanks a lot!!!
>>
>>
>>
>> Il giorno sab 21 ott 2023 alle ore 16:54 Brian Conway <
>> bcon...@rcesoftware.com> ha scritto:
>>
>>> On Sat, Oct 21, 2023, at 2:36 AM, Luca Di Gregorio wrote:
>>> > Host:
>>> > # uname -a
>>> > OpenBSD xxx.my.domain 7.4 GENERIC.MP#1397 amd64
>>> > # dmesg | egrep '(VMX/EPT|SVM/RVI)'
>>> > vmm0 at mainbus0: VMX/EPT
>>> > # vmctl show
>>> >    ID   PID VCPUS  MAXMEM  CURMEM     TTY        OWNER    STATE NAME
>>> >     2 17798     1    1.0G    519M   ttyp4         root  running debian
>>> >     1 89226     1    1.0G   1006M   ttyp2         root  running obsd
>>> >
>>> > Guest debian:
>>> > root@debian:~# lsb_release -a
>>> > No LSB modules are available.
>>> > Distributor ID: Debian
>>> > Description:    Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
>>> > Release:        12
>>> > Codename:       bookworm
>>> >
>>> > I see a strange behavior on the guest debian.
>>> > With a simple 'sleep 2', I see that the sleep time is much more than 2
>>> secs.
>>> > Can be observed with:
>>> > root@debian:~# while [ 1 ]; do sleep 2; date; done
>>> >
>>> > On obsd guest, that is OpenBSD 7.4, sleep works as expected.
>>> >
>>> > Is this a bug of vmd?
>>>
>>> Clock sources can be an issue across host-VM combinations. I'd check
>>> what yours look like in the Linux VM:
>>>
>>> `cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/available_clocksource`
>>>
>>> `cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/current_clocksource`
>>>
>>> If that is the cause, there are a few ways to skin that cat. The
>>> approach that has worked well for me, and doesn't require installing any
>>> additional software on the guest side, is to append the following to the
>>> kernel boot parameters for the Linux VM:
>>>
>>> clocksource=tsc tsc=reliable
>>>
>>> In Alpine this is done with /etc/update-extlinux.conf and
>>> `update-extlinux`. I don't remember the details of Debian and its GRUB
>>> configuration, but I recall it being fairly straightforward.
>>>
>>> Brian Conway
>>> RCE Software, LLC
>>>
>>>

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