From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
To: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] KVM: x86: implement KVM_{GET|SET}_TSC_STATE
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2020 15:12:32 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201208181232.GB31442@fuller.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6f64558a029574444da417754786f711c2fec407.camel@redhat.com>
On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 06:25:13PM +0200, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> On Tue, 2020-12-08 at 17:02 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 08 2020 at 16:50, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2020-12-07 at 20:29 -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > > > > +This ioctl allows to reconstruct the guest's IA32_TSC and TSC_ADJUST value
> > > > > +from the state obtained in the past by KVM_GET_TSC_STATE on the same vCPU.
> > > > > +
> > > > > +If 'KVM_TSC_STATE_TIMESTAMP_VALID' is set in flags,
> > > > > +KVM will adjust the guest TSC value by the time that passed since the moment
> > > > > +CLOCK_REALTIME timestamp was saved in the struct and current value of
> > > > > +CLOCK_REALTIME, and set the guest's TSC to the new value.
> > > >
> > > > This introduces the wraparound bug in Linux timekeeping, doesnt it?
> >
> > Which bug?
> >
> > > It does.
> > > Could you prepare a reproducer for this bug so I get a better idea about
> > > what are you talking about?
> > >
> > > I assume you need very long (like days worth) jump to trigger this bug
> > > and for such case we can either work around it in qemu / kernel
> > > or fix it in the guest kernel and I strongly prefer the latter.
> > >
> > > Thomas, what do you think about it?
> >
> > For one I have no idea which bug you are talking about and if the bug is
> > caused by the VMM then why would you "fix" it in the guest kernel.
>
> The "bug" is that if VMM moves a hardware time counter (tsc or anything else)
> forward by large enough value in one go,
> then the guest kernel will supposingly have an overflow in the time code.
> I don't consider this to be a buggy VMM behavior, but rather a kernel
> bug that should be fixed (if this bug actually exists)
It exists.
> Purely in theory this can even happen on real hardware if for example SMM handler
> blocks a CPU from running for a long duration, or hardware debugging
> interface does, or some other hardware transparent sleep mechanism kicks in
> and blocks a CPU from running.
> (We do handle this gracefully for S3/S4)
>
> >
> > Aside of that I think I made it pretty clear what the right thing to do
> > is.
>
> This is orthogonal to this issue of the 'bug'.
> Here we are not talking about per-vcpu TSC offsets, something that I said
> that I do agree with you that it would be very nice to get rid of.
>
> We are talking about the fact that TSC can jump forward by arbitrary large
> value if the migration took arbitrary amount of time, which
> (assuming that the bug is real) can crash the guest kernel.
QE reproduced it.
> This will happen even if we use per VM global tsc offset.
>
> So what do you think?
>
> Best regards,
> Maxim Levitsky
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > tglx
> >
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-08 18:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-03 17:11 [PATCH v2 0/3] RFC: Precise TSC migration Maxim Levitsky
2020-12-03 17:11 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] KVM: x86: implement KVM_{GET|SET}_TSC_STATE Maxim Levitsky
2020-12-06 16:19 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-12-07 12:16 ` Maxim Levitsky
2020-12-07 13:16 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2020-12-07 17:41 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-12-08 9:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-12-10 11:42 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-12-10 12:14 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-12-10 12:22 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-12-10 13:01 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-12-10 20:20 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-12-07 16:38 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-12-07 16:53 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-12-07 17:00 ` Maxim Levitsky
2020-12-07 18:04 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-12-07 23:11 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2020-12-08 17:43 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-12-08 19:24 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-12-08 20:32 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-12-09 0:19 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-12-09 4:08 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-12-09 10:14 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-12-10 23:42 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-12-08 11:24 ` Maxim Levitsky
2020-12-08 9:35 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-12-07 23:34 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2020-12-07 17:29 ` Oliver Upton
2020-12-08 11:13 ` Maxim Levitsky
2020-12-08 15:57 ` Oliver Upton
2020-12-08 15:58 ` Oliver Upton
2020-12-08 17:10 ` Maxim Levitsky
2020-12-08 16:40 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-12-08 17:08 ` Maxim Levitsky
2020-12-10 11:48 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-12-10 14:25 ` Maxim Levitsky
2020-12-07 23:29 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2020-12-08 14:50 ` Maxim Levitsky
2020-12-08 16:02 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-12-08 16:25 ` Maxim Levitsky
2020-12-08 17:33 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-12-08 21:25 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-12-08 18:12 ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2020-12-08 21:35 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-12-08 21:20 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-12-10 11:48 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-12-10 14:52 ` Maxim Levitsky
2020-12-10 15:16 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-12-10 17:59 ` Oliver Upton
2020-12-10 18:05 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-12-10 18:13 ` Oliver Upton
2020-12-10 21:25 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-12-10 22:01 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-12-10 22:28 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-12-10 23:19 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-12-11 0:03 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-12-08 18:11 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2020-12-08 21:33 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-12-09 16:34 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2020-12-09 20:58 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-12-10 15:26 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2020-12-10 21:48 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-12-11 0:27 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2020-12-11 13:30 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-12-11 14:18 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2020-12-11 21:04 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-12-11 21:59 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-12-12 13:03 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-12-15 10:59 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2020-12-15 16:55 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-12-15 22:34 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-12-11 13:37 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-12-08 17:35 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2020-12-03 17:11 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] KVM: x86: introduce KVM_X86_QUIRK_TSC_HOST_ACCESS Maxim Levitsky
2020-12-03 17:11 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] kvm/selftests: update tsc_msrs_test to cover KVM_X86_QUIRK_TSC_HOST_ACCESS Maxim Levitsky
2020-12-07 23:16 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] RFC: Precise TSC migration Marcelo Tosatti
2020-12-10 11:48 ` Paolo Bonzini
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