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Commit 6d722835 authored by Paul Durrant's avatar Paul Durrant Committed by Sean Christopherson
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KVM x86/xen: add an override for PVCLOCK_TSC_STABLE_BIT



Unless explicitly told to do so (by passing 'clocksource=tsc' and
'tsc=stable:socket', and then jumping through some hoops concerning
potential CPU hotplug) Xen will never use TSC as its clocksource.
Hence, by default, a Xen guest will not see PVCLOCK_TSC_STABLE_BIT set
in either the primary or secondary pvclock memory areas. This has
led to bugs in some guest kernels which only become evident if
PVCLOCK_TSC_STABLE_BIT *is* set in the pvclocks. Hence, to support
such guests, give the VMM a new Xen HVM config flag to tell KVM to
forcibly clear the bit in the Xen pvclocks.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Durrant <pdurrant@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDavid Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231102162128.2353459-1-paul@xen.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
parent e9e60c82
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