On Thu, May 21, 2026, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Fri, 2026-05-15 at 12:19 -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote: > > In anticipation of making x86_cpuinit.early_percpu_clock_init(), i.e. > > kvm_setup_secondary_clock(), a dedicated sched_clock hook that will be > > invoked if and only if kvmclock is set as sched_clock, ensure APs enable > > their kvmclock during CPU online. While a redundant write to the MSR is > > technically ok, skip the registration when kvmclock is sched_clock so that > > it's somewhat obvious that kvmclock *needs* to be enabled during early > > bringup when it's being used as sched_clock. > > > > Plumb in the BSP's resume path purely for documentation purposes. Both > > KVM (as-a-guest) and timekeeping/clocksource hook syscore_ops, and it's > > not super obvious that using KVM's hooks would be flawed. E.g. it would > > work today, because KVM's hooks happen to run after/before timekeeping's > > hooks during suspend/resume, but that's sheer dumb luck as the order in > > which syscore_ops are invoked depends entirely on when a subsystem is > > initialized and thus registers its hooks. > > > > Opportunsitically make the registration messages more precise to help > > debug issues where kvmclock is enabled too late. > > That's a hard word to type, isn't it?
Heh, you have no idea. I've been "this" close to creating a VIM binding for a while, it is time...
