linux-kernel - Re: system time goes weird in kvm guest after host suspend/resume

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Date:   Thu, 28 May 2020 22:43:02 +0200
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
Cc:     kvm@...r.kernel.org, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@....com>,
        Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: system time goes weird in kvm guest after host suspend/resume

Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu> writes:
> Bisected it to:
>
> b95a8a27c300 ("x86/vdso: Use generic VDSO clock mode storage")
>
> The effect observed is that after the host is resumed, the clock in
> the guest is somewhat in the future and is stopped.  I.e. repeated
> date(1) invocations show the same time.

TBH, the bisect does not make any sense at all. It's renaming the
constants and moving the storage space and I just read it line for line
again that the result is equivalent. I'll have a look once the merge
window dust settles a bit.

Thanks,

        tglx