Paul Durrant
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Unless explicitly told to do so (by passing 'clocksource=tsc' and 'tsc=stable:socket', and then jumping through some hoops concerning potential CPU hotplug) Xen will never use TSC as its clocksource. Hence, by default, a Xen guest will not see PVCLOCK_TSC_STABLE_BIT set in either the primary or secondary pvclock memory areas. This has led to bugs in some guest kernels which only become evident if PVCLOCK_TSC_STABLE_BIT *is* set in the pvclocks. Hence, to support such guests, give the VMM a new Xen HVM config flag to tell KVM to forcibly clear the bit in the Xen pvclocks. Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <pdurrant@amazon.com> Reviewed-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231102162128.2353459-1-paul@xen.org Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.