Re: [PATCH 1/5] Add a global synchronization point for pvclock

[Avi Kivity]

 On 10/26/2010 01:30 AM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Unfortunately this is breaking Xen save/restore: if you restore on a
> host which was booted more recently than the save host, causing the
> system time to be smaller.  The effect is that the domain's time leaps
> forward to a fixed point, and stays there until the host catches up to
> the source host...

Shouldn't save/restore also save the timebase?

> I guess last_time needs to be reset on this type of event.  I guess the
> cleanest way would be for pvclock.c to register a sysdev suspend/resume
> handler.

Should be for Xen only; kvm save/restore doesn't involve the guest.

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