[SeaBIOS] [PATCH] tsc: use kvmclock for calibration

Gerd Hoffmann kraxel at redhat.com
Thu Aug 9 16:12:18 CEST 2012


  Hi,

>> er, the documentation says 4 bytes (so stack alignment works).  I
>> distinctly remember having a large alignment requirement so we don't
>> cross a page or slot boundary... something's wrong here.
> 
> 	case MSR_KVM_SYSTEM_TIME: {
[ ... ]

> So your tests worked by pure luck, but the bug is in kvm.  We need to
> grab two pages here.

Ok, so better use memalign(32,32) to make sure the struct doesn't cross
a page border ...

cheers,
  Gerd



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