Bug#599161: [Xen-devel] #599161: Xen debug patch for the "clock shifts by 50 minutes" bug.
On 08/11/2012 11:43, "Ian Campbell" <ijc@hellion.org.uk> wrote:
>>> I'll leave this to Keir (who wrote the debugging patch) to answer but it
>>> looks to me like it should be useful!
>>
>> I'm scratching my head. plt_wrap is earlier than plt_now, which should be
>> impossible.
>
> impossible due to guarantees made by the h/w or by construction in Xen.
That's a question, right? By construction in Xen.
> There appears to be a certain amount of hardware-specificness to the
> issue -- so I'm wondering if maybe there are some platforms whose tsc is
> not as monotonically increasing as it needs to be...
plt_* timestamps are not derived from TSC at all.
>> plt_stamp64 oddly has low 32 bits identical to new_stamp. That
>> seems very very improbable!
>
> Does this code run on all cpus or just one? Is it always the same one?
Always cpu0.
-- Keir
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