Re: [PATCH] KVM: ARM: arch_timer: Initialize cntvoff at vcpu_init

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Hi Christoffer,

On 28/09/13 15:05, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> Initialize the cntvoff at vcpu_init time, not before running the VCPUs
> at the first time because that will overwrite any potentially restored
> values from user space.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c b/virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c
> index 8168437..2f6b5fe 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c
> @@ -181,6 +181,7 @@ void kvm_timer_vcpu_init(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  	INIT_WORK(&timer->expired, kvm_timer_inject_irq_work);
>  	hrtimer_init(&timer->timer, CLOCK_MONOTONIC, HRTIMER_MODE_ABS);
>  	timer->timer.function = kvm_timer_expire;
> +	vcpu->kvm->arch.timer.cntvoff = kvm_phys_timer_read();
>  }
>  
>  static void kvm_timer_init_interrupt(void *info)
> @@ -282,7 +283,6 @@ void kvm_timer_vcpu_terminate(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  int kvm_timer_init(struct kvm *kvm)
>  {
>  	if (timecounter && wqueue) {
> -		kvm->arch.timer.cntvoff = kvm_phys_timer_read();
>  		kvm->arch.timer.enabled = 1;
>  	}
>  
> 

I'm not exactly fond of this change. CNTVOFF is a per-VM property. Here,
we end-up recomputing it as we initialize VCPUs, which is very
counter-intuitive.

If anything, I'd move the call of kvm_timer_init out of kvm_vgic_init
into kvm_arch_init_vm.

What do you think?

	M.
-- 
Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny...


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