Re: [PATCH] kvm: Return -ENODEV from update_persistent_clock

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Thu Nov 02 2017 - 13:23:32 EST


On 31/10/2017 21:28, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> kvm does not support setting the RTC, so the correct result is -ENODEV.
> Returning -1 will cause sync_cmos_clock to keep trying to set the RTC
> every second.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c
> index d88967659098b5..5b609e28ce3f40 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c
> @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ static void kvm_get_wallclock(struct timespec *now)
>
> static int kvm_set_wallclock(const struct timespec *now)
> {
> - return -1;
> + return -ENODEV;
> }
>
> static u64 kvm_clock_read(void)
>

Queued, thanks.

Paolo