[PATCH v2 00/11] KVM: x86: pvclock fixes and cleanups

From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Fri Jan 31 2025 - 20:38:41 EST


Fix a lockdep splat in KVM's suspend notifier by simply removing a spurious
kvm->lock acquisition related to kvmclock, and then try to wrangle KVM's
pvclock handling into something approaching sanity (I made the mistake of
looking at how KVM handled PVCLOCK_GUEST_STOPPED).

The Xen changes are slightly better tested this time around, though given
how many bugs there were in v1, that isn't saying a whole lot.

Case in point, I had to shuffle the scariest patch (at first glance),
"KVM: x86/xen: Use guest's copy of pvclock when starting timer", to land
earlier in the series, because the existing usage of the cache pvclock's
"version" field in kvm_xen_start_timer() relies on the pvclock update to
persist _a_ version number to the cache. Eww. :-(

v2:
- Collect reviews. [Paul, Vitaly]
- Account for the compat offset in xen_get_guest_pvclock().
- Try both the compat and non-compat clocks in kvm_xen_start_timer().
- Fix a horrendous uninitialized variable bug. [Paul]
- Move the kvm_xen_start_timer() change earlier so that it wouldn't be
transiently broken due to "version" always being '0'.
- Shuffle patches so that the "set PVCLOCK_GUEST_STOPPED only for
kvmclock" is fully isolated from "Don't bleed PVCLOCK_GUEST_STOPPED". [Paul]

v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250118005552.2626804-1-seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx

Sean Christopherson (11):
KVM: x86: Don't take kvm->lock when iterating over vCPUs in suspend
notifier
KVM: x86: Eliminate "handling" of impossible errors during SUSPEND
KVM: x86: Drop local pvclock_flags variable in kvm_guest_time_update()
KVM: x86: Process "guest stopped request" once per guest time update
KVM: x86/xen: Use guest's copy of pvclock when starting timer
KVM: x86: Don't bleed PVCLOCK_GUEST_STOPPED across PV clocks
KVM: x86: Set PVCLOCK_GUEST_STOPPED only for kvmclock, not for Xen PV
clock
KVM: x86: Pass reference pvclock as a param to
kvm_setup_guest_pvclock()
KVM: x86: Remove per-vCPU "cache" of its reference pvclock
KVM: x86: Setup Hyper-V TSC page before Xen PV clocks (during clock
update)
KVM: x86: Override TSC_STABLE flag for Xen PV clocks in
kvm_guest_time_update()

arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 3 +-
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 115 ++++++++++++++++----------------
arch/x86/kvm/xen.c | 69 +++++++++++++++++--
3 files changed, 121 insertions(+), 66 deletions(-)


base-commit: eb723766b1030a23c38adf2348b7c3d1409d11f0
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