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authorMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>2014-01-06 12:00:02 -0200
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>2014-04-02 00:58:43 +0100
commit7a9175abf3816d07fc8b87d74f3b4e4f19728f69 (patch)
tree4aae2c43e12f159692270c47eaba17f08ac34bcb /arch
parent43057146932997ca54a2326cfd6abe9fe1ec5a9f (diff)
KVM: x86: limit PIT timer frequency
commit 9ed96e87c5748de4c2807ef17e81287c7304186c upstream. Limit PIT timer frequency similarly to the limit applied by LAPIC timer. Reviewed-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: - Adjust context - s/ps->period/pt->period/] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c18
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c3
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kvm/x86.c3
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kvm/x86.h2
4 files changed, 23 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c b/arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c
index 405f2620392f..139415e2c5bf 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
#include "irq.h"
#include "i8254.h"
+#include "x86.h"
#ifndef CONFIG_X86_64
#define mod_64(x, y) ((x) - (y) * div64_u64(x, y))
@@ -364,6 +365,23 @@ static void create_pit_timer(struct kvm *kvm, u32 val, int is_period)
atomic_set(&pt->pending, 0);
ps->irq_ack = 1;
+ /*
+ * Do not allow the guest to program periodic timers with small
+ * interval, since the hrtimers are not throttled by the host
+ * scheduler.
+ */
+ if (ps->is_periodic) {
+ s64 min_period = min_timer_period_us * 1000LL;
+
+ if (pt->period < min_period) {
+ pr_info_ratelimited(
+ "kvm: requested %lld ns "
+ "i8254 timer period limited to %lld ns\n",
+ pt->period, min_period);
+ pt->period = min_period;
+ }
+ }
+
hrtimer_start(&pt->timer, ktime_add_ns(ktime_get(), interval),
HRTIMER_MODE_ABS);
}
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
index 757c71635346..176205ab0ca8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
@@ -68,9 +68,6 @@
#define VEC_POS(v) ((v) & (32 - 1))
#define REG_POS(v) (((v) >> 5) << 4)
-static unsigned int min_timer_period_us = 500;
-module_param(min_timer_period_us, uint, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);
-
static inline u32 apic_get_reg(struct kvm_lapic *apic, int reg_off)
{
return *((u32 *) (apic->regs + reg_off));
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 7774cca80118..b9fefaf276c4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -92,6 +92,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_x86_ops);
int ignore_msrs = 0;
module_param_named(ignore_msrs, ignore_msrs, bool, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);
+unsigned int min_timer_period_us = 500;
+module_param(min_timer_period_us, uint, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);
+
bool kvm_has_tsc_control;
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_has_tsc_control);
u32 kvm_max_guest_tsc_khz;
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.h b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.h
index d36fe237c665..0e22f6411bc0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.h
@@ -125,4 +125,6 @@ int kvm_write_guest_virt_system(struct x86_emulate_ctxt *ctxt,
gva_t addr, void *val, unsigned int bytes,
struct x86_exception *exception);
+extern unsigned int min_timer_period_us;
+
#endif