From: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@xxxxxxxxxx>
If you try to enable NOHZ_FULL on a guest today, you'll get
the following error when the guest tries to deactivate the
scheduler tick:
WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 2182 at kernel/time/tick-sched.c:192 can_stop_full_tick+0xb9/0x290()
NO_HZ FULL will not work with unstable sched clock
CPU: 3 PID: 2182 Comm: kworker/3:1 Not tainted 4.0.0-10545-gb9bb6fb #204
Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
Workqueue: events flush_to_ldisc
ffffffff8162a0c7 ffff88011f583e88 ffffffff814e6ba0 0000000000000002
ffff88011f583ed8 ffff88011f583ec8 ffffffff8104d095 ffff88011f583eb8
0000000000000000 0000000000000003 0000000000000001 0000000000000001
Call Trace:
<IRQ> [<ffffffff814e6ba0>] dump_stack+0x4f/0x7b
[<ffffffff8104d095>] warn_slowpath_common+0x85/0xc0
[<ffffffff8104d146>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x46/0x50
[<ffffffff810bd2a9>] can_stop_full_tick+0xb9/0x290
[<ffffffff810bd9ed>] tick_nohz_irq_exit+0x8d/0xb0
[<ffffffff810511c5>] irq_exit+0xc5/0x130
[<ffffffff814f180a>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x4a/0x60
[<ffffffff814eff5e>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x6e/0x80
<EOI> [<ffffffff814ee5d1>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x31/0x60
[<ffffffff8108bbc8>] __wake_up+0x48/0x60
[<ffffffff8134836c>] n_tty_receive_buf_common+0x49c/0xba0
[<ffffffff8134a6bf>] ? tty_ldisc_ref+0x1f/0x70
[<ffffffff81348a84>] n_tty_receive_buf2+0x14/0x20
[<ffffffff8134b390>] flush_to_ldisc+0xe0/0x120
[<ffffffff81064d05>] process_one_work+0x1d5/0x540
[<ffffffff81064c81>] ? process_one_work+0x151/0x540
[<ffffffff81065191>] worker_thread+0x121/0x470
[<ffffffff81065070>] ? process_one_work+0x540/0x540
[<ffffffff8106b4df>] kthread+0xef/0x110
[<ffffffff8106b3f0>] ? __kthread_parkme+0xa0/0xa0
[<ffffffff814ef4f2>] ret_from_fork+0x42/0x70
[<ffffffff8106b3f0>] ? __kthread_parkme+0xa0/0xa0
---[ end trace 06e3507544a38866 ]---
However, it turns out that kvmclock does provide a stable
sched_clock callback. So, let the scheduler know this which
in turn makes NOHZ_FULL work in the guest.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c | 17 +++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Index: kvm/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c
===================================================================
--- kvm.orig/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c 2015-05-27 18:00:53.616391551 -0300
+++ kvm/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c 2015-05-27 22:43:14.474432962 -0300
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
#include <linux/percpu.h>
#include <linux/hardirq.h>
#include <linux/memblock.h>
+#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <asm/x86_init.h>
#include <asm/reboot.h>
@@ -217,8 +218,10 @@
void __init kvmclock_init(void)
{
+ struct pvclock_vcpu_time_info *vcpu_time;
unsigned long mem;
- int size;
+ int size, cpu;
+ u8 flags;
size = PAGE_ALIGN(sizeof(struct pvclock_vsyscall_time_info)*NR_CPUS);
@@ -263,8 +266,18 @@
clocksource_register_hz(&kvm_clock, NSEC_PER_SEC);
pv_info.name = "KVM";
+ flags = PVCLOCK_COUNTS_FROM_ZERO;
if (kvm_para_has_feature(KVM_FEATURE_CLOCKSOURCE_STABLE_BIT))
- pvclock_set_flags(PVCLOCK_TSC_STABLE_BIT);
+ flags |= PVCLOCK_TSC_STABLE_BIT;
+
+ pvclock_set_flags(flags);
+
+ cpu = get_cpu();
+ vcpu_time = &hv_clock[cpu].pvti;
+ flags = pvclock_read_flags(vcpu_time);
+ if (flags & PVCLOCK_COUNTS_FROM_ZERO)
+ set_sched_clock_stable();
+ put_cpu();
}
int __init kvm_setup_vsyscall_timeinfo(void)
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