ptp: Add support for the AMZNC10C 'vmclock' device

The vmclock device addresses the problem of live migration with
precision clocks. The tolerances of a hardware counter (e.g. TSC) are
typically around ±50PPM. A guest will use NTP/PTP/PPS to discipline that
counter against an external source of 'real' time, and track the precise
frequency of the counter as it changes with environmental conditions.

When a guest is live migrated, anything it knows about the frequency of
the underlying counter becomes invalid. It may move from a host where
the counter running at -50PPM of its nominal frequency, to a host where
it runs at +50PPM. There will also be a step change in the value of the
counter, as the correctness of its absolute value at migration is
limited by the accuracy of the source and destination host's time
synchronization.

In its simplest form, the device merely advertises a 'disruption_marker'
which indicates that the guest should throw away any NTP synchronization
it thinks it has, and start again.

Because the shared memory region can be exposed all the way to userspace
through the /dev/vmclock0 node, applications can still use time from a
fast vDSO 'system call', and check the disruption marker to be sure that
their timestamp is indeed truthful.

The structure also allows for the precise time, as known by the host, to
be exposed directly to guests so that they don't have to wait for NTP to
resync from scratch. The PTP driver consumes this information if present.
Like the KVM PTP clock, this PTP driver can convert TSC-based cross
timestamps into KVM clock values. Unlike the KVM PTP clock, it does so
only when such is actually helpful.

The values and fields are based on the nascent virtio-rtc specification,
and the intent is that a version (hopefully precisely this version) of
this structure will be included as an optional part of that spec. In the
meantime, this driver supports the simple ACPI form of the device which
is being shipped in certain commercial hypervisors (and submitted for
inclusion in QEMU).

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Acked-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 182 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/vmclock-abi.h b/include/uapi/linux/vmclock-abi.h
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+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) */
+
+/*
+ * This structure provides a vDSO-style clock to VM guests, exposing the
+ * relationship (or lack thereof) between the CPU clock (TSC, timebase, arch
+ * counter, etc.) and real time. It is designed to address the problem of
+ * live migration, which other clock enlightenments do not.
+ *
+ * When a guest is live migrated, this affects the clock in two ways.
+ *
+ * First, even between identical hosts the actual frequency of the underlying
+ * counter will change within the tolerances of its specification (typically
+ * ±50PPM, or 4 seconds a day). This frequency also varies over time on the
+ * same host, but can be tracked by NTP as it generally varies slowly. With
+ * live migration there is a step change in the frequency, with no warning.
+ *
+ * Second, there may be a step change in the value of the counter itself, as
+ * its accuracy is limited by the precision of the NTP synchronization on the
+ * source and destination hosts.
+ *
+ * So any calibration (NTP, PTP, etc.) which the guest has done on the source
+ * host before migration is invalid, and needs to be redone on the new host.
+ *
+ * In its most basic mode, this structure provides only an indication to the
+ * guest that live migration has occurred. This allows the guest to know that
+ * its clock is invalid and take remedial action. For applications that need
+ * reliable accurate timestamps (e.g. distributed databases), the structure
+ * can be mapped all the way to userspace. This allows the application to see
+ * directly for itself that the clock is disrupted and take appropriate
+ * action, even when using a vDSO-style method to get the time instead of a
+ * system call.
+ *
+ * In its more advanced mode. this structure can also be used to expose the
+ * precise relationship of the CPU counter to real time, as calibrated by the
+ * host. This means that userspace applications can have accurate time
+ * immediately after live migration, rather than having to pause operations
+ * and wait for NTP to recover. This mode does, of course, rely on the
+ * counter being reliable and consistent across CPUs.
+ *
+ * Note that this must be true UTC, never with smeared leap seconds. If a
+ * guest wishes to construct a smeared clock, it can do so. Presenting a
+ * smeared clock through this interface would be problematic because it
+ * actually messes with the apparent counter *period*. A linear smearing
+ * of 1 ms per second would effectively tweak the counter period by 1000PPM
+ * at the start/end of the smearing period, while a sinusoidal smear would
+ * basically be impossible to represent.
+ *
+ * This structure is offered with the intent that it be adopted into the
+ * nascent virtio-rtc standard, as a virtio-rtc that does not address the live
+ * migration problem seems a little less than fit for purpose. For that
+ * reason, certain fields use precisely the same numeric definitions as in
+ * the virtio-rtc proposal. The structure can also be exposed through an ACPI
+ * device with the CID "VMCLOCK", modelled on the "VMGENID" device except for
+ * the fact that it uses a real _CRS to convey the address of the structure
+ * (which should be a full page, to allow for mapping directly to userspace).
+ */
+
+#ifndef __VMCLOCK_ABI_H__
+#define __VMCLOCK_ABI_H__
+
+#include <linux/types.h>
+
+struct vmclock_abi {
+	/* CONSTANT FIELDS */
+	__le32 magic;
+#define VMCLOCK_MAGIC	0x4b4c4356 /* "VCLK" */
+	__le32 size;		/* Size of region containing this structure */
+	__le16 version;	/* 1 */
+	__u8 counter_id; /* Matches VIRTIO_RTC_COUNTER_xxx except INVALID */
+#define VMCLOCK_COUNTER_ARM_VCNT	0
+#define VMCLOCK_COUNTER_X86_TSC		1
+#define VMCLOCK_COUNTER_INVALID		0xff
+	__u8 time_type; /* Matches VIRTIO_RTC_TYPE_xxx */
+#define VMCLOCK_TIME_UTC			0	/* Since 1970-01-01 00:00:00z */
+#define VMCLOCK_TIME_TAI			1	/* Since 1970-01-01 00:00:00z */
+#define VMCLOCK_TIME_MONOTONIC			2	/* Since undefined epoch */
+#define VMCLOCK_TIME_INVALID_SMEARED		3	/* Not supported */
+#define VMCLOCK_TIME_INVALID_MAYBE_SMEARED	4	/* Not supported */
+
+	/* NON-CONSTANT FIELDS PROTECTED BY SEQCOUNT LOCK */
+	__le32 seq_count;	/* Low bit means an update is in progress */
+	/*
+	 * This field changes to another non-repeating value when the CPU
+	 * counter is disrupted, for example on live migration. This lets
+	 * the guest know that it should discard any calibration it has
+	 * performed of the counter against external sources (NTP/PTP/etc.).
+	 */
+	__le64 disruption_marker;
+	__le64 flags;
+	/* Indicates that the tai_offset_sec field is valid */
+#define VMCLOCK_FLAG_TAI_OFFSET_VALID		(1 << 0)
+	/*
+	 * Optionally used to notify guests of pending maintenance events.
+	 * A guest which provides latency-sensitive services may wish to
+	 * remove itself from service if an event is coming up. Two flags
+	 * indicate the approximate imminence of the event.
+	 */
+#define VMCLOCK_FLAG_DISRUPTION_SOON		(1 << 1) /* About a day */
+#define VMCLOCK_FLAG_DISRUPTION_IMMINENT	(1 << 2) /* About an hour */
+#define VMCLOCK_FLAG_PERIOD_ESTERROR_VALID	(1 << 3)
+#define VMCLOCK_FLAG_PERIOD_MAXERROR_VALID	(1 << 4)
+#define VMCLOCK_FLAG_TIME_ESTERROR_VALID	(1 << 5)
+#define VMCLOCK_FLAG_TIME_MAXERROR_VALID	(1 << 6)
+	/*
+	 * If the MONOTONIC flag is set then (other than leap seconds) it is
+	 * guaranteed that the time calculated according this structure at
+	 * any given moment shall never appear to be later than the time
+	 * calculated via the structure at any *later* moment.
+	 *
+	 * In particular, a timestamp based on a counter reading taken
+	 * immediately after setting the low bit of seq_count (and the
+	 * associated memory barrier), using the previously-valid time and
+	 * period fields, shall never be later than a timestamp based on
+	 * a counter reading taken immediately before *clearing* the low
+	 * bit again after the update, using the about-to-be-valid fields.
+	 */
+#define VMCLOCK_FLAG_TIME_MONOTONIC		(1 << 7)
+
+	__u8 pad[2];
+	__u8 clock_status;
+#define VMCLOCK_STATUS_UNKNOWN		0
+#define VMCLOCK_STATUS_INITIALIZING	1
+#define VMCLOCK_STATUS_SYNCHRONIZED	2
+#define VMCLOCK_STATUS_FREERUNNING	3
+#define VMCLOCK_STATUS_UNRELIABLE	4
+
+	/*
+	 * The time exposed through this device is never smeared. This field
+	 * corresponds to the 'subtype' field in virtio-rtc, which indicates
+	 * the smearing method. However in this case it provides a *hint* to
+	 * the guest operating system, such that *if* the guest OS wants to
+	 * provide its users with an alternative clock which does not follow
+	 * UTC, it may do so in a fashion consistent with the other systems
+	 * in the nearby environment.
+	 */
+	__u8 leap_second_smearing_hint; /* Matches VIRTIO_RTC_SUBTYPE_xxx */
+#define VMCLOCK_SMEARING_STRICT		0
+#define VMCLOCK_SMEARING_NOON_LINEAR	1
+#define VMCLOCK_SMEARING_UTC_SLS	2
+	__le16 tai_offset_sec; /* Actually two's complement signed */
+	__u8 leap_indicator;
+	/*
+	 * This field is based on the VIRTIO_RTC_LEAP_xxx values as defined
+	 * in the current draft of virtio-rtc, but since smearing cannot be
+	 * used with the shared memory device, some values are not used.
+	 *
+	 * The _POST_POS and _POST_NEG values allow the guest to perform
+	 * its own smearing during the day or so after a leap second when
+	 * such smearing may need to continue being applied for a leap
+	 * second which is now theoretically "historical".
+	 */
+#define VMCLOCK_LEAP_NONE	0x00	/* No known nearby leap second */
+#define VMCLOCK_LEAP_PRE_POS	0x01	/* Positive leap second at EOM */
+#define VMCLOCK_LEAP_PRE_NEG	0x02	/* Negative leap second at EOM */
+#define VMCLOCK_LEAP_POS	0x03	/* Set during 23:59:60 second */
+#define VMCLOCK_LEAP_POST_POS	0x04
+#define VMCLOCK_LEAP_POST_NEG	0x05
+
+	/* Bit shift for counter_period_frac_sec and its error rate */
+	__u8 counter_period_shift;
+	/*
+	 * Paired values of counter and UTC at a given point in time.
+	 */
+	__le64 counter_value;
+	/*
+	 * Counter period, and error margin of same. The unit of these
+	 * fields is 1/2^(64 + counter_period_shift) of a second.
+	 */
+	__le64 counter_period_frac_sec;
+	__le64 counter_period_esterror_rate_frac_sec;
+	__le64 counter_period_maxerror_rate_frac_sec;
+
+	/*
+	 * Time according to time_type field above.
+	 */
+	__le64 time_sec;		/* Seconds since time_type epoch */
+	__le64 time_frac_sec;		/* Units of 1/2^64 of a second */
+	__le64 time_esterror_nanosec;
+	__le64 time_maxerror_nanosec;
+};
+
+#endif /*  __VMCLOCK_ABI_H__ */