From: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@xxxxxxxxxxx> After commit c3941d9e0 (KVM: lapic: Allow user to disable adaptive tuning of timer advancement), '-1' enables adaptive tuning starting from default advancment of 1000ns. However, we should expose an int instead of an overflow uint module parameter. Before patch: /sys/module/kvm/parameters/lapic_timer_advance_ns:4294967295 After patch: /sys/module/kvm/parameters/lapic_timer_advance_ns:-1 Fixes: c3941d9e0 (KVM: lapic: Allow user to disable adaptive tuning of timer advancement) Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Liran Alon <liran.alon@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c index b63e7b0..f2e3847 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c @@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ module_param(tsc_tolerance_ppm, uint, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR); * tuning, i.e. allows priveleged userspace to set an exact advancement time. */ static int __read_mostly lapic_timer_advance_ns = -1; -module_param(lapic_timer_advance_ns, uint, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR); +module_param(lapic_timer_advance_ns, int, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR); static bool __read_mostly vector_hashing = true; module_param(vector_hashing, bool, S_IRUGO); -- 2.7.4
