Re: [PATCH v1] kvm/x86: Remove Hyper-V SynIC timer stopping

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On 14/12/2015 16:33, Andrey Smetanin wrote:
> It's possible that guest send us Hyper-V EOM at the middle
> of Hyper-V SynIC timer running, so we start processing of Hyper-V
> SynIC timers in vcpu context and stop the Hyper-V SynIC timer
> uncoditionally and lose time expiration which Windows 2012R2 guest
> expects.
> 
> The patch fixes such situation by not stopping Hyper-V SynIC timer
> at all, because it's safe to restart it without stop in vcpu context
> and timer callback always returns HRTIMER_NORESTART.

Can you summarize with a "picture" what is the bad race?

The patch seems safe, but I'd like to have a better understanding of
what goes wrong.

Paolo
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