Otherwise its possible to starve the host by programming lapic timer
with a very high frequency.
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx
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
@@ -667,6 +667,15 @@ static void start_apic_timer(struct kvm_
if (!apic->lapic_timer.period)
return;
+ /*
+ * Do not allow the guest to program periodic timers with small
+ * interval, since the hrtimers are not throttled by the host
+ * scheduler.
+ */
+ if (apic_lvtt_period(apic)) {
+ if (apic->lapic_timer.period < NSEC_PER_MSEC/2)
+ apic->lapic_timer.period = NSEC_PER_MSEC/2;
+ }
hrtimer_start(&apic->lapic_timer.timer,
ktime_add_ns(now, apic->lapic_timer.period),
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