linux-kernel - KVM: x86: zero kvmclock_offset when vcpu0 initializes kvmclock system MSR

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Message-ID: <20150522004008.GA5242@amt.cnet>
Date:	Thu, 21 May 2015 21:40:08 -0300
From:	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>
To:	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>
Cc:	KVM General <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, lcapitulino@...hat.com
Subject: KVM: x86: zero kvmclock_offset when vcpu0 initializes kvmclock
 system MSR


Initialize kvmclock base, on kvmclock system MSR write time, 
so that the guest sees kvmclock counting from zero.

This matches baremetal behaviour when kvmclock in guest
sets sched clock stable.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index cc2c759..ea40d24 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -2188,6 +2188,8 @@ int kvm_set_msr_common(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct msr_data *msr_info)
 					&vcpu->requests);
 
 			ka->boot_vcpu_runs_old_kvmclock = tmp;
+
+			ka->kvmclock_offset = get_kernel_ns();
 		}
 
 		vcpu->arch.time = data;
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