Re: [PATCH v6 00/36] Cleaning up the KVM clock mess

[Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 03 Jul 2026 22:17:39 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> This is v6 of the series to clean up the KVM clock, rebased onto the
> tip timers/ptp material (the timers-ptp-2026-06-13 merge, which includes
> Thomas's ktime snapshot series and the read_snapshot patches).
> 
> The KVM clock has historically suffered from three problems:
> 
>  1. Imprecision: get_kvmclock_ns() computed the clock from the *host*
>     TSC without applying guest TSC scaling, causing systemic drift from
>     the values the guest computes from its own TSC.
> 
> [...]

Applied patch 1 to kvm-x86 clocks.

[01/36] KVM: x86/xen: Do not corrupt KVM clock in kvm_xen_shared_info_init()
        https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/3d4b20b5a7df

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