[PATCH v6 1/7] ptp: vmclock: add vm generation counter
From: Takahiro Itazuri <hidden>
Date: 2026-01-21 14:34:20
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Subsystem:
ptp vmclock support, the rest · Maintainers:
David Woodhouse, Linus Torvalds
From: "Babis Chalios" <redacted> Similar to live migration, loading a VM from some saved state (aka snapshot) is also an event that calls for clock adjustments in the guest. However, guests might want to take more actions as a response to such events, e.g. as discarding UUIDs, resetting network connections, reseeding entropy pools, etc. These are actions that guests don't typically take during live migration, so add a new field in the vmclock_abi called vm_generation_counter which informs the guest about such events. Hypervisor advertises support for vm_generation_counter through the VMCLOCK_FLAG_VM_GEN_COUNTER_PRESENT flag. Users need to check the presence of this bit in vmclock_abi flags field before using this flag. Signed-off-by: Babis Chalios <redacted> Reviewed-by: David Woodhouse <redacted> --- include/uapi/linux/vmclock-abi.h | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/vmclock-abi.h b/include/uapi/linux/vmclock-abi.h
index 2d99b29ac44a..937fe00e4f33 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/vmclock-abi.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/vmclock-abi.h@@ -115,6 +115,12 @@ struct vmclock_abi { * bit again after the update, using the about-to-be-valid fields. */ #define VMCLOCK_FLAG_TIME_MONOTONIC (1 << 7) + /* + * If the VM_GEN_COUNTER_PRESENT flag is set, the hypervisor will + * bump the vm_generation_counter field every time the guest is + * loaded from some save state (restored from a snapshot). + */ +#define VMCLOCK_FLAG_VM_GEN_COUNTER_PRESENT (1 << 8) __u8 pad[2]; __u8 clock_status;
@@ -177,6 +183,15 @@ struct vmclock_abi { __le64 time_frac_sec; /* Units of 1/2^64 of a second */ __le64 time_esterror_nanosec; __le64 time_maxerror_nanosec; + + /* + * This field changes to another non-repeating value when the guest + * has been loaded from a snapshot. In addition to handling a + * disruption in time (which will also be signalled through the + * disruption_marker field), a guest may wish to discard UUIDs, + * reset network connections, reseed entropy, etc. + */ + __le64 vm_generation_counter; }; #endif /* __VMCLOCK_ABI_H__ */
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