[PATCH v2 0/2] if running under KVM, use kvmclock to compute TSC deadline value

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Tue Sep 06 2016 - 18:30:12 EST


v1 posted here: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9214993/

The motivation for this patch is in patch 2 (or you can read it from v1).

This version is larger but the hooks into apic.c are cleaner than in
v1. Instead of arranging for kvmclock to replace only a small part of
setup_apic_timer, it registers its own clockevent. The downside is that
kvmclock now needs to hook into the LAPIC timer interrupt to invoke the
event_handler of the new clockevent, but this is pretty straightforward
with a new pvop (assuming the introduction of new pvops is straightforward
at all).

Thanks,

Paolo

Paolo Bonzini (2):
x86: paravirt: add local_apic_timer_interrupt to pv_ops
x86, kvm: use kvmclock to compute TSC deadline value

arch/x86/include/asm/apic.h | 2 +
arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h | 5 ++
arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h | 1 +
arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c | 4 +-
arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c | 156 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c | 1 +
6 files changed, 167 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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