[3.19.y-ckt stable] Patch "KVM: x86: Use adjustment in guest cycles when handling MSR_IA32_TSC_ADJUST" has been added to staging queue

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Mon Sep 21 22:26:12 UTC 2015


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    KVM: x86: Use adjustment in guest cycles when handling MSR_IA32_TSC_ADJUST

to the linux-3.19.y-queue branch of the 3.19.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.19.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.19.8-ckt7.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.19.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From e78f3fca176184b7c636d3a149a20b7e4d885569 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang at intel.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2015 11:24:32 +0800
Subject: KVM: x86: Use adjustment in guest cycles when handling
 MSR_IA32_TSC_ADJUST

commit d7add05458084a5e3d65925764a02ca9c8202c1e upstream.

When kvm_set_msr_common() handles a guest's write to
MSR_IA32_TSC_ADJUST, it will calcuate an adjustment based on the data
written by guest and then use it to adjust TSC offset by calling a
call-back adjust_tsc_offset(). The 3rd parameter of adjust_tsc_offset()
indicates whether the adjustment is in host TSC cycles or in guest TSC
cycles. If SVM TSC scaling is enabled, adjust_tsc_offset()
[i.e. svm_adjust_tsc_offset()] will first scale the adjustment;
otherwise, it will just use the unscaled one. As the MSR write here
comes from the guest, the adjustment is in guest TSC cycles. However,
the current kvm_set_msr_common() uses it as a value in host TSC
cycles (by using true as the 3rd parameter of adjust_tsc_offset()),
which can result in an incorrect adjustment of TSC offset if SVM TSC
scaling is enabled. This patch fixes this problem.

Signed-off-by: Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index a692f1c..57d5915 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -2143,7 +2143,7 @@ int kvm_set_msr_common(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct msr_data *msr_info)
 		if (guest_cpuid_has_tsc_adjust(vcpu)) {
 			if (!msr_info->host_initiated) {
 				s64 adj = data - vcpu->arch.ia32_tsc_adjust_msr;
-				kvm_x86_ops->adjust_tsc_offset(vcpu, adj, true);
+				adjust_tsc_offset_guest(vcpu, adj);
 			}
 			vcpu->arch.ia32_tsc_adjust_msr = data;
 		}
--
1.9.1





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