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David Vrabel d8f2f498d9 x86/kvm: fix LAPIC timer drift when guest uses periodic mode 
Since 4.10, commit 8003c9ae20 (KVM: LAPIC: add APIC Timer
periodic/oneshot mode VMX preemption timer support), guests using
periodic LAPIC timers (such as FreeBSD 8.4) would see their timers
drift significantly over time.

Differences in the underlying clocks and numerical errors means the
periods of the two timers (hv and sw) are not the same. This
difference will accumulate with every expiry resulting in a large
error between the hv and sw timer.

This means the sw timer may be running slow when compared to the hv
timer. When the timer is switched from hv to sw, the now active sw
timer will expire late. The guest VCPU is reentered and it switches to
using the hv timer. This timer catches up, injecting multiple IRQs
into the guest (of which the guest only sees one as it does not get to
run until the hv timer has caught up) and thus the guest's timer rate
is low (and becomes increasing slower over time as the sw timer lags
further and further behind).

I believe a similar problem would occur if the hv timer is the slower
one, but I have not observed this.

Fix this by synchronizing the deadlines for both timers to the same
time source on every tick. This prevents the errors from accumulating.

Fixes: 8003c9ae20
Cc: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@nutanix.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
2018-05-24 16:48:55 +02:00
arch x86/kvm: fix LAPIC timer drift when guest uses periodic mode 2018-05-24 16:48:55 +02:00
block blk-mq: fix sysfs inflight counter 2018-04-26 09:02:01 -06:00
certs certs/blacklist_nohashes.c: fix const confusion in certs blacklist 2018-02-21 15:35:43 -08:00
crypto crypto: drbg - set freed buffers to NULL 2018-04-21 00:57:00 +08:00
Documentation kvm: rename KVM_HINTS_DEDICATED to KVM_HINTS_REALTIME 2018-05-17 19:12:13 +02:00
drivers IOMMU Fixes for Linux v4.17-rc4 2018-05-06 05:42:24 -10:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs First pull request for 4.17-rc 2018-05-04 20:51:10 -10:00
include KVM: Extend MAX_IRQ_ROUTES to 4096 for all archs 2018-05-11 11:21:10 +02:00
init Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-04-15 16:12:35 -07:00
ipc ipc/shm: fix use-after-free of shm file via remap_file_pages() 2018-04-13 17:10:27 -07:00
kernel Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-05-06 05:35:23 -10:00
lib swiotlb: fix inversed DMA_ATTR_NO_WARN test 2018-05-02 14:48:55 +02:00
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sound ALSA: pcm: Check PCM state at xfern compat ioctl 2018-05-02 08:54:54 +02:00
tools KVM: selftests: exit with 0 status code when tests cannot be run 2018-05-11 11:21:12 +02:00
usr kbuild: rename built-in.o to built-in.a 2018-03-26 02:01:19 +09:00
virt KVM: arm/arm64: VGIC/ITS save/restore: protect kvm_read_guest() calls 2018-05-15 13:36:53 +02:00
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MAINTAINERS Kbuild fixes for v4.17 2018-05-04 21:15:25 -10:00
Makefile Linux 4.17-rc4 2018-05-06 16:57:38 -10:00
README Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README 2018-03-21 09:02:53 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.