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    KVM: Add last_host_tsc tracking back to KVM · 6f526ec5
    Zachary Amsden authored
    The variable last_host_tsc was removed from upstream code.  I am adding
    it back for two reasons.  First, it is unnecessary to use guest TSC
    computation to conclude information about the host TSC.  The guest may
    set the TSC backwards (this case handled by the previous patch), but
    the computation of guest TSC (and fetching an MSR) is significanlty more
    work and complexity than simply reading the hardware counter.  In addition,
    we don't actually need the guest TSC for any part of the computation,
    by always recomputing the offset, we can eliminate the need to deal with
    the current offset and any scaling factors that may apply.
    
    The second reason is that later on, we are going to be using the host
    TSC value to restore TSC offsets after a host S4 suspend, so we need to
    be reading the host values, not the guest values here.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarZachary Amsden <zamsden@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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