From: Marc Zyngier Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 08:33:28 +0000 (+0100) Subject: arm/arm64: KVM: Fix ordering of timer/GIC on guest entry X-Git-Tag: v4.3-rc1~24^2~13^2~11 X-Git-Url: https://asedeno.scripts.mit.edu/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9a99d050705318d1cb27979e1c810464347db9db;p=linux.git arm/arm64: KVM: Fix ordering of timer/GIC on guest entry As we now inject the timer interrupt when we're about to enter the guest, it makes a lot more sense to make sure this happens before the vgic code queues the pending interrupts. Otherwise, we get the interrupt on the following exit, which is not great for latency (and leads to all kind of bizarre issues when using with active interrupts at the HW level). Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall --- diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c b/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c index 9ce5cf02ed17..1141d21b7e3c 100644 --- a/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c +++ b/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c @@ -523,8 +523,8 @@ int kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_run *run) if (vcpu->arch.pause) vcpu_pause(vcpu); - kvm_vgic_flush_hwstate(vcpu); kvm_timer_flush_hwstate(vcpu); + kvm_vgic_flush_hwstate(vcpu); preempt_disable(); local_irq_disable(); @@ -540,8 +540,8 @@ int kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_run *run) if (ret <= 0 || need_new_vmid_gen(vcpu->kvm)) { local_irq_enable(); preempt_enable(); - kvm_timer_sync_hwstate(vcpu); kvm_vgic_sync_hwstate(vcpu); + kvm_timer_sync_hwstate(vcpu); continue; } @@ -587,9 +587,8 @@ int kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_run *run) trace_kvm_exit(kvm_vcpu_trap_get_class(vcpu), *vcpu_pc(vcpu)); preempt_enable(); - - kvm_timer_sync_hwstate(vcpu); kvm_vgic_sync_hwstate(vcpu); + kvm_timer_sync_hwstate(vcpu); ret = handle_exit(vcpu, run, ret); }