From: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2023 12:38:27 +0000
Subject: KVM: arm64: Don't arm a hrtimer for an already pending timer
Git-commit: 4d74ecfa6458bf482d93ad9a98c7f0423ff0564b
Patch-mainline: v6.3-rc1
References: git-fixes
When fully emulating a timer, we back it with a hrtimer that is
armver on vcpu_load(). However, we do this even if the timer is
already pending.
This causes spurious interrupts to be taken, though the guest
doesn't observe them (the interrupt is already pending).
Although this is a waste of precious cycles, this isn't the
end of the world with the current state of KVM. However, this
can lead to a situation where a guest doesn't make forward
progress anymore with NV.
Fix it by checking that if the timer is already pending
before arming a new hrtimer. Also drop the hrtimer cancelling,
which is useless, by construction.
Reported-by: D Scott Phillips <scott@os.amperecomputing.com>
Fixes: bee038a67487 ("KVM: arm/arm64: Rework the timer code to use a timer_map")
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230112123829.458912-2-maz@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Ivan T. Ivanov <iivanov@suse.de>
---
arch/arm64/kvm/arch_timer.c | 4 +---
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/arch_timer.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/arch_timer.c
@@ -414,10 +414,8 @@ static void timer_emulate(struct arch_ti
* scheduled for the future. If the timer cannot fire at all,
* then we also don't need a soft timer.
*/
- if (!kvm_timer_irq_can_fire(ctx)) {
- soft_timer_cancel(&ctx->hrtimer);
+ if (should_fire || !kvm_timer_irq_can_fire(ctx))
return;
- }
soft_timer_start(&ctx->hrtimer, kvm_timer_compute_delta(ctx));
}