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[5/7] KVM: lapic: Busy wait for timer to expire when using hv_timer

Message ID 20190412201834.10831-6-sean.j.christopherson@intel.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series KVM: lapic: Fix a variety of timer adv issues | expand

Commit Message

Sean Christopherson April 12, 2019, 8:18 p.m. UTC
...now that VMX's preemption timer, i.e. the hv_timer, also adjusts its
programmed time based on lapic_timer_advance_ns.  Without the delay, a
guest can see a timer interrupt arrive before the requested time when
KVM is using the hv_timer to emulate the guest's interrupt.

Fixes: c5ce8235cffa0 ("KVM: VMX: Optimize tscdeadline timer latency")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
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 arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Liran Alon April 14, 2019, 11:47 a.m. UTC | #1
> On 12 Apr 2019, at 23:18, Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> wrote:
> 
> ...now that VMX's preemption timer, i.e. the hv_timer, also adjusts its
> programmed time based on lapic_timer_advance_ns.  Without the delay, a
> guest can see a timer interrupt arrive before the requested time when
> KVM is using the hv_timer to emulate the guest's interrupt.
> 
> Fixes: c5ce8235cffa0 ("KVM: VMX: Optimize tscdeadline timer latency")
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
> Cc: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>

Nice catch.
Reviewed-by: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>

> ---
> arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
> index c43cd26f040b..1d649a2af04c 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
> @@ -1455,7 +1455,7 @@ static void apic_timer_expired(struct kvm_lapic *apic)
> 	if (swait_active(q))
> 		swake_up_one(q);
> 
> -	if (apic_lvtt_tscdeadline(apic))
> +	if (apic_lvtt_tscdeadline(apic) || ktimer->hv_timer_in_use)
> 		ktimer->expired_tscdeadline = ktimer->tscdeadline;
> }
> 
> -- 
> 2.21.0
>
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diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
index c43cd26f040b..1d649a2af04c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
@@ -1455,7 +1455,7 @@  static void apic_timer_expired(struct kvm_lapic *apic)
 	if (swait_active(q))
 		swake_up_one(q);
 
-	if (apic_lvtt_tscdeadline(apic))
+	if (apic_lvtt_tscdeadline(apic) || ktimer->hv_timer_in_use)
 		ktimer->expired_tscdeadline = ktimer->tscdeadline;
 }