From: Sean Christopherson sean.j.christopherson@intel.com
commit b6aa57c69cb26ea0160c51f7cf45f1af23542686 upstream.
To minimize the latency of timer interrupts as observed by the guest, KVM adjusts the values it programs into the host timers to account for the host's overhead of programming and handling the timer event. In the event that the adjustments are too aggressive, i.e. the timer fires earlier than the guest expects, KVM busy waits immediately prior to entering the guest.
Currently, KVM manually converts the delay from nanoseconds to clock cycles. But, the conversion is done in the guest's time domain, while the delay occurs in the host's time domain. This is perfectly ok when the guest and host are using the same TSC ratio, but if the guest is using a different ratio then the delay may not be accurate and could wait too little or too long.
When the guest is not using the host's ratio, convert the delay from guest clock cycles to host nanoseconds and use ndelay() instead of __delay() to provide more accurate timing. Because converting to nanoseconds is relatively expensive, e.g. requires division and more multiplication ops, continue using __delay() directly when guest and host TSCs are running at the same ratio.
Cc: Liran Alon liran.alon@oracle.com Cc: Wanpeng Li wanpengli@tencent.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 3b8a5df6c4dc6 ("KVM: LAPIC: Tune lapic_timer_advance_ns automatically") Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson sean.j.christopherson@intel.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini pbonzini@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c | 24 +++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c @@ -1478,6 +1478,26 @@ static bool lapic_timer_int_injected(str return false; }
+static inline void __wait_lapic_expire(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 guest_cycles) +{ + u64 timer_advance_ns = vcpu->arch.apic->lapic_timer.timer_advance_ns; + + /* + * If the guest TSC is running at a different ratio than the host, then + * convert the delay to nanoseconds to achieve an accurate delay. Note + * that __delay() uses delay_tsc whenever the hardware has TSC, thus + * always for VMX enabled hardware. + */ + if (vcpu->arch.tsc_scaling_ratio == kvm_default_tsc_scaling_ratio) { + __delay(min(guest_cycles, + nsec_to_cycles(vcpu, timer_advance_ns))); + } else { + u64 delay_ns = guest_cycles * 1000000ULL; + do_div(delay_ns, vcpu->arch.virtual_tsc_khz); + ndelay(min_t(u32, delay_ns, timer_advance_ns)); + } +} + void wait_lapic_expire(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) { struct kvm_lapic *apic = vcpu->arch.apic; @@ -1498,10 +1518,8 @@ void wait_lapic_expire(struct kvm_vcpu * guest_tsc = kvm_read_l1_tsc(vcpu, rdtsc()); trace_kvm_wait_lapic_expire(vcpu->vcpu_id, guest_tsc - tsc_deadline);
- /* __delay is delay_tsc whenever the hardware has TSC, thus always. */ if (guest_tsc < tsc_deadline) - __delay(min(tsc_deadline - guest_tsc, - nsec_to_cycles(vcpu, timer_advance_ns))); + __wait_lapic_expire(vcpu, tsc_deadline - guest_tsc);
if (!apic->lapic_timer.timer_advance_adjust_done) { /* too early */