x86: kvmclock: abolish PVCLOCK_COUNTS_FROM_ZERO

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Newer KVM won't be exposing PVCLOCK_COUNTS_FROM_ZERO anymore.
The purpose of that flags was to start counting system time from 0 when
the KVM clock has been initialized.
We can achieve the same by selecting one read as the initial point.

A simple subtraction will work unless the KVM clock count overflows
earlier (has smaller width) than scheduler's cycle count.  We should be
safe till x86_128.

Because PVCLOCK_COUNTS_FROM_ZERO was enabled only on new hypervisors,
setting sched clock as stable based on PVCLOCK_TSC_STABLE_BIT might
regress on older ones.

I presume we don't need to change kvm_clock_read instead of introducing
kvm_sched_clock_read.  A problem could arise in case sched_clock is
expected to return the same value as get_cycles, but we should have
merged those clocks in that case.

Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

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Radim Krčmář 2015-09-18 17:54:29 +02:00 • committed by Paolo Bonzini

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