Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/2] x86/xen: sync the wallclock whenthe system time changes

From: Jan Beulich
Date: Wed May 29 2013 - 03:43:08 EST


>>> On 28.05.13 at 20:53, John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 05/28/2013 11:22 AM, David Vrabel wrote:
>> op.cmd = XENPF_settime;
>> - op.u.settime.secs = now->tv_sec;
>> - op.u.settime.nsecs = now->tv_nsec;
>> + op.u.settime.secs = now.tv_sec;
>> + op.u.settime.nsecs = now.tv_nsec;
>> op.u.settime.system_time = xen_clocksource_read();
>>
>> ret = HYPERVISOR_dom0_op(&op);
>> if (ret)
>> - return ret;
>> + return 0;
>>
>> - /* Set the hardware RTC. */
>> - return mach_set_rtc_mmss(now);
>> + last = now;
>> + next = timespec_add(now, ns_to_timespec(NSEC_PER_SEC / 2));
>>
>
> Am I missing the xen_set_wallclock hook here? Your previous patch wanted
> to call the dom0 op and then set the hardware RTC.

That ought to be intentional: We should update the hypervisor's
software wall clock here, but limit updating of the RTC to whenever
a native kernel would do this (i.e. among other things subject to
CONFIG_RTC_SYSTOHC).

Jan

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