From dedf9c5e216902c6d34b5a0d0c40f4acbb3706d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wanpeng Li Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2017 18:54:25 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] KVM: LAPIC: Keep timer running when switching between one-shot and periodic mode MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit If we take TSC-deadline mode timer out of the picture, the Intel SDM does not say that the timer is disable when the timer mode is change, either from one-shot to periodic or vice versa. After this patch, the timer is no longer disarmed on change of mode, so the counter (TMCCT) keeps counting down. So what does a write to LVTT changes ? On baremetal, the change of mode is probably taken into account only when the counter reach 0. When this happen, LVTT is use to figure out if the counter should restard counting down from TMICT (so periodic mode) or stop counting (if one-shot mode). This patch is based on observation of the behavior of the APIC timer on baremetal as well as check that they does not go against the description written in the Intel SDM. Cc: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Radim Krčmář Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li [Fixed rate limiting of periodic timer.] Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář --- arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c index 8841bb539c90..f7ad11255557 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c @@ -1308,7 +1308,7 @@ static void limit_periodic_timer_frequency(struct kvm_lapic *apic) * interval, since the hrtimers are not throttled by the host * scheduler. */ - if (apic_lvtt_period(apic)) { + if (apic_lvtt_period(apic) && apic->lapic_timer.period) { s64 min_period = min_timer_period_us * 1000LL; if (apic->lapic_timer.period < min_period) { @@ -1329,10 +1329,12 @@ static void apic_update_lvtt(struct kvm_lapic *apic) if (apic->lapic_timer.timer_mode != timer_mode) { if (apic_lvtt_tscdeadline(apic) != (timer_mode == - APIC_LVT_TIMER_TSCDEADLINE)) + APIC_LVT_TIMER_TSCDEADLINE)) { kvm_lapic_set_reg(apic, APIC_TMICT, 0); + hrtimer_cancel(&apic->lapic_timer.timer); + } apic->lapic_timer.timer_mode = timer_mode; - hrtimer_cancel(&apic->lapic_timer.timer); + limit_periodic_timer_frequency(apic); } } -- 2.45.2