The host timer which emulates the guest LAPIC TSC deadline timer has its expiration diminished by lapic_timer_advance_ns nanoseconds. Therefore if, at wait_lapic_expire, a difference larger than lapic_timer_advance_ns is encountered, delay at most lapic_timer_advance_ns. This fixes a problem where the guest can cause the host to delay for large amounts of time. Reported-by: Alan Jenkins <alan.christopher.jenkins@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@xxxxxxxxxx> Index: kvm/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c =================================================================== --- kvm.orig/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c +++ kvm/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c @@ -1164,7 +1164,8 @@ void wait_lapic_expire(struct kvm_vcpu * /* __delay is delay_tsc whenever the hardware has TSC, thus always. */ if (guest_tsc < tsc_deadline) - __delay(tsc_deadline - guest_tsc); + __delay(max(tsc_deadline - guest_tsc, + nsec_to_cycles(vcpu, lapic_timer_advance_ns))); } static void start_apic_timer(struct kvm_lapic *apic) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
