Re: [PATCH] KVM:Hyper-V reduce one kvm_write_guest operation

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Wed Dec 20 2017 - 04:45:20 EST


On 20/12/2017 10:33, Rhett Rhett wrote:
> tsc_sequence had been set to 0 before, so the tsc page won't function.
> guest has no chance to read tsc page before the last write.
>

kvm_write_guest is not atomic. The guest can see a non-zero sequence
before the other fields have been set.

Paolo