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authorAlexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>2013-08-29 02:41:59 +0400
committerAlexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>2013-08-29 02:41:59 +0400
commitbf550fc93d9855872a95e69e4002256110d89858 (patch)
tree10876bb4304bffe54c4160a132e7b8de6577ac4e /arch/x86/vdso/vclock_gettime.c
parent7e48c101e0c53e6095c5f4f5e63d14df50aae8fc (diff)
parentcc2df20c7c4ce594c3e17e9cc260c330646012c8 (diff)
downloadlinux-bf550fc93d9855872a95e69e4002256110d89858.tar.xz
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/next' into kvm-ppc-next
Conflicts: mm/Kconfig CMA DMA split and ZSWAP introduction were conflicting, fix up manually.
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/vdso/vclock_gettime.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/vdso/vclock_gettime.c16
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/vdso/vclock_gettime.c b/arch/x86/vdso/vclock_gettime.c
index c74436e687bf..72074d528400 100644
--- a/arch/x86/vdso/vclock_gettime.c
+++ b/arch/x86/vdso/vclock_gettime.c
@@ -85,15 +85,18 @@ static notrace cycle_t vread_pvclock(int *mode)
cycle_t ret;
u64 last;
u32 version;
- u32 migrate_count;
u8 flags;
unsigned cpu, cpu1;
/*
- * When looping to get a consistent (time-info, tsc) pair, we
- * also need to deal with the possibility we can switch vcpus,
- * so make sure we always re-fetch time-info for the current vcpu.
+ * Note: hypervisor must guarantee that:
+ * 1. cpu ID number maps 1:1 to per-CPU pvclock time info.
+ * 2. that per-CPU pvclock time info is updated if the
+ * underlying CPU changes.
+ * 3. that version is increased whenever underlying CPU
+ * changes.
+ *
*/
do {
cpu = __getcpu() & VGETCPU_CPU_MASK;
@@ -104,8 +107,6 @@ static notrace cycle_t vread_pvclock(int *mode)
pvti = get_pvti(cpu);
- migrate_count = pvti->migrate_count;
-
version = __pvclock_read_cycles(&pvti->pvti, &ret, &flags);
/*
@@ -117,8 +118,7 @@ static notrace cycle_t vread_pvclock(int *mode)
cpu1 = __getcpu() & VGETCPU_CPU_MASK;
} while (unlikely(cpu != cpu1 ||
(pvti->pvti.version & 1) ||
- pvti->pvti.version != version ||
- pvti->migrate_count != migrate_count));
+ pvti->pvti.version != version));
if (unlikely(!(flags & PVCLOCK_TSC_STABLE_BIT)))
*mode = VCLOCK_NONE;