Thread (40 messages) 40 messages, 6 authors, 2024-07-25

Re: [PATCH v8 7/7] KVM: x86: Expose TSC offset controls to userspace

From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Date: 2022-02-23 10:04:07
Also in: kvm, kvmarm

On Thu, 2021-09-16 at 18:15 +0000, Oliver Upton wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
To date, VMM-directed TSC synchronization and migration has been a bit
messy. KVM has some baked-in heuristics around TSC writes to infer if
the VMM is attempting to synchronize. This is problematic, as it depends
on host userspace writing to the guest's TSC within 1 second of the last
write.

A much cleaner approach to configuring the guest's views of the TSC is to
simply migrate the TSC offset for every vCPU. Offsets are idempotent,
and thus not subject to change depending on when the VMM actually
reads/writes values from/to KVM. The VMM can then read the TSC once with
KVM_GET_CLOCK to capture a (realtime, host_tsc) pair at the instant when
the guest is paused.

Cc: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <redacted>
---
 Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/vcpu.rst |  57 ++++++++++++
 arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h         |   1 +
 arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h         |   4 +
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c                      | 110 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 172 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/vcpu.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/vcpu.rst
index 2acec3b9ef65..3b399d727c11 100644
--- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/vcpu.rst
+++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/vcpu.rst
@@ -161,3 +161,60 @@ Specifies the base address of the stolen time structure for this VCPU. The
 base address must be 64 byte aligned and exist within a valid guest memory
 region. See Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/pvtime.rst for more information
 including the layout of the stolen time structure.
+
+4. GROUP: KVM_VCPU_TSC_CTRL
+===========================
+
+:Architectures: x86
+
+4.1 ATTRIBUTE: KVM_VCPU_TSC_OFFSET
+
+:Parameters: 64-bit unsigned TSC offset
+
+Returns:
+
+	 ======= ======================================
+	 -EFAULT Error reading/writing the provided
+		 parameter address.
+	 -ENXIO  Attribute not supported
+	 ======= ======================================
+
+Specifies the guest's TSC offset relative to the host's TSC. The guest's
+TSC is then derived by the following equation:
+
+  guest_tsc = host_tsc + KVM_VCPU_TSC_OFFSET
This isn't true. The guest TSC also depends on the *scaling* factor.

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