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Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/10] KVM: x86: Improve accuracy of KVM clock when TSC
 scaling is in force
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2024 16:39:00 +0100
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On Mon, 2024-04-22 at 14:22 +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 9:51=E2=80=AFPM David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.=
org> wrote:
> > =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 gpa_t time;
> > =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 struct pvclock_vcpu_ti=
me_info hv_clock;
> > -=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 unsigned int hw_tsc_khz;
> > +=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 unsigned int hw_tsc_hz;
>=20
> Why not change this to u64? 4.3 GHz is scarily close to current
> processors, though I expect that it will break a lot more software
> than just KVM.

I'm not sure that just changing the variable is sufficient. I'm
concerned that we may still have places (like kvm_get_time_scale(),
although it's hard to tell because it's entirely uncommented!) which
assume that they can multiply the value by *any* 32-bit number and
it'll still fit in 64 bits.

> > =C2=A0 static int kvm_guest_time_update(struct kvm_vcpu *v)
> > =C2=A0 {
> > -=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 unsigned long flags, tgt_tsc_khz;
> > +=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 unsigned long flags;
> > +=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 uint64_t tgt_tsc_hz;
>=20
> ... especially considering that you did use a 64-bit integer here
> (though---please use u64 not uint64_t; and BTW if you want to add a
> patch to change kvm_get_time_scale() to u64, please do.

Meh, I'm used to programming in C. Yes, I *am* old enough to have been
doing this since the last decade of the 1900s, but it *has* been a long
time since 1999, and my fingers have learned :)

That said, although I *do* write in C by default, where I'm editing
functions which already have that old anachronistic crap, I generally
manage to go back and change my additions from proper C to match their
surroundings. And I suppose there *are* some of those awful u64/s64
types already in kvm_guest_time_update(), so I would normally have done
so. I'll change that in my tree.

No way I'm regressing kvm_get_time_scale() myself though :)

Heh, looks like it was you who made it uint64_t, in 2016. In a commit
(3ae13faac) which said "Prepare for improving the precision in the next
patch"... which never came, AFAICT?


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