>>> On 8/1/2012 at 02:21 PM, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosa...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 09:44:54PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 10:44:24AM -0600, Bruce Rogers wrote:
>> > When a guest migrates to a new host, the system time difference from the
>> > previous host is used in the updates to the kvmclock system time visible
>> > to the guest, resulting in a continuation of correct kvmclock based guest
>> > timekeeping.
>> >
>> > The wall clock component of the kvmclock provided time is currently not
>> > updated with this same time offset. Since the Linux guest caches the
>> > wall clock based time, this discrepency is not noticed until the guest is
>> > rebooted. After reboot the guest's time calculations are off.
>> >
>> > This patch adjusts the wall clock by the kvmclock_offset, resulting in
>> > correct guest time after a reboot.
>> >
>> > Cc: Glauber Costa <glom...@redhat.com>
>> > Cc: Zachary Amsden <zams...@gmail.com>
>> > Signed-off-by: Bruce Rogers <brog...@suse.com>
>> > ---
>> > arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 4 ++++
>> > 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
>> > index be6d549..14c290d 100644
>> > --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
>> > +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
>> > @@ -907,6 +907,10 @@ static void kvm_write_wall_clock(struct kvm *kvm,
>> > gpa_t
> wall_clock)
>> > */
>> > getboottime(&boot);
>> >
>> > + if (kvm->arch.kvmclock_offset) {
>> > + struct timespec ts = ns_to_timespec(kvm->arch.kvmclock_offset);
>> > + boot = timespec_sub(boot, ts);
>> > + }
>>
>> kvmclock_offset is signed (both directions). Must check the sign and use
>> _sub and _add_safe accordingly.
>
> Your patch is correct, sorry (applied to master).
>
> Patch 2 still makes no sense.
I'm fine with dropping the second patch.
Thanks
Bruce
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