Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86: Avoid busy loops over uninjectable pending APIC timers

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On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 12:15:05PM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 2013-03-17 09:47, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 09:49:07PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> >> From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> If the guest didn't take the last APIC timer interrupt yet and generates
> >> another one on top, e.g. via periodic mode, we do not block the VCPU
> >> even if the guest state is halted. The reason is that
> >> apic_has_pending_timer continues to return a non-zero value.
> >>
> >> Fix this busy loop by taking the IRR content for the LVT vector in
> >> apic_has_pending_timer into account.
> >>
> > Just drop coalescing tacking for lapic interrupt. After posted interrupt
> > will be merged __apic_accept_irq() will not longer return coalescing
> > information, so the code will be dead anyway.
> 
> If I understood the follow-up discussion correctly, we aren't dropping
> de-coalescing support yet. So how to proceed with this fix here?
> 
We do. It does not work if you run on CPU with apicv support already.

> Jan
> 
> > 
> >> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >>
> >> Not a critical issue, we are looping fully interruptible, but it's ugly
> >> to do so IMHO.
> >>
> >>  arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c |    4 +++-
> >>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
> >> index a8e9369..658abf5 100644
> >> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
> >> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
> >> @@ -1473,7 +1473,9 @@ int apic_has_pending_timer(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> >>  	struct kvm_lapic *apic = vcpu->arch.apic;
> >>  
> >>  	if (kvm_vcpu_has_lapic(vcpu) && apic_enabled(apic) &&
> >> -			apic_lvt_enabled(apic, APIC_LVTT))
> >> +	    apic_lvt_enabled(apic, APIC_LVTT) &&
> >> +	    !apic_test_vector(apic_lvt_vector(apic, APIC_LVTT),
> >> +					      apic->regs + APIC_IRR))
> >>  		return atomic_read(&apic->lapic_timer.pending);
> >>  
> >>  	return 0;
> >> -- 
> >> 1.7.3.4
> > 
> > --
> > 			Gleb.
> 
> 



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