From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Radim Krcmar <rkrcmar@redhat.com>,
Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Matt Rickard <matt@softrans.com.au>,
Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>,
John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>,
KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>,
Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
devel@linuxdriverproject.org,
Linux Virtualization <virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 00/11] x86/vdso: Cleanups, simmplifications and CLOCK_TAI support\
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2018 16:05:04 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181003190500.GA23638@amt.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181003190026.GB21381@amt.cnet>
On Wed, Oct 03, 2018 at 04:00:29PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 02, 2018 at 10:15:49PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> > Hi Vitaly, Paolo, Radim, etc.,
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 5:52 AM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> > >
> > > Matt attempted to add CLOCK_TAI support to the VDSO clock_gettime()
> > > implementation, which extended the clockid switch case and added yet
> > > another slightly different copy of the same code.
> > >
> > > Especially the extended switch case is problematic as the compiler tends to
> > > generate a jump table which then requires to use retpolines. If jump tables
> > > are disabled it adds yet another conditional to the existing maze.
> > >
> > > This series takes a different approach by consolidating the almost
> > > identical functions into one implementation for high resolution clocks and
> > > one for the coarse grained clock ids by storing the base data for each
> > > clock id in an array which is indexed by the clock id.
> > >
> >
> > I was trying to understand more of the implications of this patch
> > series, and I was again reminded that there is an entire extra copy of
> > the vclock reading code in arch/x86/kvm/x86.c. And the purpose of
> > that code is very, very opaque.
> >
> > Can one of you explain what the code is even doing? From a couple of
> > attempts to read through it, it's a whole bunch of
> > probably-extremely-buggy code that,
>
> Yes, probably.
>
> > drumroll please, tries to atomically read the TSC value and the time. And decide whether the
> > result is "based on the TSC".
>
> I think "based on the TSC" refers to whether TSC clocksource is being
> used.
>
> > And then synthesizes a TSC-to-ns
> > multiplier and shift, based on *something other than the actual
> > multiply and shift used*.
> >
> > IOW, unless I'm totally misunderstanding it, the code digs into the
> > private arch clocksource data intended for the vDSO, uses a poorly
> > maintained copy of the vDSO code to read the time (instead of doing
> > the sane thing and using the kernel interfaces for this), and
> > propagates a totally made up copy to the guest.
>
> I posted kernel interfaces for this, and it was suggested to
> instead write a "in-kernel user of pvclock data".
>
> If you can get kernel interfaces to replace that, go for it. I prefer
> kernel interfaces as well.
And cleanup patches, to make that code look nicer, are also very
welcome!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-03 19:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 81+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-14 12:50 [patch 00/11] x86/vdso: Cleanups, simmplifications and CLOCK_TAI support Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-14 12:50 ` [patch 01/11] clocksource: Provide clocksource_arch_init() Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-14 12:50 ` [patch 02/11] x86/time: Implement clocksource_arch_init() Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-14 15:45 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2018-09-15 6:05 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-14 12:50 ` [patch 03/11] x86/vdso: Enforce 64bit clocksource Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-14 12:50 ` [patch 04/11] x86/vdso: Use unsigned int consistently for vsyscall_gtod_data::seq Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-14 12:50 ` [patch 05/11] x86/vdso: Introduce and use vgtod_ts Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-14 12:50 ` [patch 06/11] x86/vdso: Collapse high resolution functions Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-14 12:50 ` [patch 07/11] x86/vdso: Collapse coarse functions Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-14 12:50 ` [patch 08/11] x86/vdso: Replace the clockid switch case Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-14 12:50 ` [patch 09/11] x86/vdso: Simplify the invalid vclock case Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-17 19:25 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-09-17 20:12 ` John Stultz
2018-09-18 7:52 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-18 8:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-09-18 8:52 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-18 10:06 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-18 10:41 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-18 12:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-09-18 13:23 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-18 13:38 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-09-18 15:52 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-27 14:41 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-18 14:01 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-09-18 22:46 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-18 23:03 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-09-18 23:16 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-27 14:36 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-27 14:39 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-09-19 9:08 ` Rasmus Villemoes
2018-09-19 13:29 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-14 12:50 ` [patch 10/11] x86/vdso: Move cycle_last handling into the caller Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-14 15:26 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2018-09-14 12:50 ` [patch 11/11] x66/vdso: Add CLOCK_TAI support Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-14 14:04 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-09-14 14:27 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-14 14:59 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-09-16 9:39 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-14 12:56 ` [patch 00/11] x86/vdso: Cleanups, simmplifications and " Florian Weimer
2018-09-14 13:05 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-14 13:06 ` Florian Weimer
2018-09-14 13:19 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-14 13:09 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-09-14 14:22 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-17 13:00 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-24 21:08 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-10-03 5:15 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-10-03 9:22 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2018-10-03 10:20 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-10-03 12:01 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2018-10-03 14:20 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-10-03 15:10 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-10-03 16:18 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-10-03 19:06 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2018-10-04 7:54 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2018-10-04 8:11 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-10-04 14:00 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-10-04 19:31 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-10-04 20:05 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-10-04 22:15 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-10-06 20:27 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2018-10-06 22:28 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-10-08 15:26 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2018-10-08 17:38 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-10-08 19:36 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2018-10-09 20:09 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-10-11 22:27 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2018-10-11 23:00 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-10-15 13:39 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2018-10-06 20:49 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2018-10-04 12:00 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-10-04 14:04 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-10-05 21:18 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2018-10-03 19:00 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2018-10-03 19:05 ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2018-10-03 22:32 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-10-04 16:37 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2018-10-04 17:08 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-10-04 17:28 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2018-10-04 20:32 ` Andy Lutomirski
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