Currently, the HV KVM guest entry/exit code adds the timebase offset
from the vcore struct to the timebase on guest entry, and subtracts
it on guest exit. Which is fine, except that it is possible for
userspace to change the offset using the SET_ONE_REG interface while
the vcore is running, as there is only one timebase offset per vcore
but potentially multiple VCPUs in the vcore. If that were to happen,
KVM would subtract a different offset on guest exit from that which
it had added on guest entry, leading to the timebase being out of sync
between cores in the host, which then leads to bad things happening
such as hangs and spurious watchdog timeouts.
To fix this, we add a new field 'tb_offset_applied' to the vcore struct
which stores the offset that is currently applied to the timebase.
This value is set from the vcore tb_offset field on guest entry, and
is what is subtracted from the timebase on guest exit. Since it is
zero when the timebase offset is not applied, we can simplify the
logic in kvmhv_start_timing and kvmhv_accumulate_time.
In addition, we had secondary threads reading the timebase while
running concurrently with code on the primary thread which would
eventually add or subtract the timebase offset from the timebase.
This occurred while saving or restoring the DEC register value on
the secondary threads. Although no specific incorrect behaviour has
been observed, this is a race which should be fixed. To fix it, we
move the DEC saving code to just before we call kvmhv_commence_exit,
and the DEC restoring code to after the point where we have waited
for the primary thread to switch the MMU context and add the timebase
offset. That way we are sure that the timebase contains the guest
timebase value in both cases.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
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