We can't run PIT IRQ injection work in the interrupt context of the host
timer. This would allow the user to influence the handler complexity by
asking for a broadcast to a large number of VCPUs. Therefore, this work
was pushed into workqueue context in 9d244caf2e. However, this prevents
prioritizing the PIT injection over other task as workqueues share
kernel threads.
This replaces the workqueue with a kthread worker and gives that thread
a name in the format "kvm-pit/<owner-process-pid>". That allows to
identify and adjust the kthread priority according to the VM process
parameters.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Just remove useless function define kvm_inject_pit_timer_irqs() from
file arch/x86/kvm/i8254.h
Signed-off-by:Duan Jiong<djduanjiong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The patch below removes unsigned long base_addresss; in i8254.h
since it is unused.
Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
We really want to "kvm_set_irq" during the hrtimer callback,
but that is risky because that is during interrupt context.
Instead, offload the work to a workqueue, which is a bit safer
and should provide most of the same functionality.
Signed-off-by: Chris Lalancette <clalance@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
The i8254/i8259 locks need to be real spinlocks on preempt-rt. Convert
them to raw_spinlock. No change for !RT kernels.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
When kvm is in hpet_legacy_mode, the hpet is providing the timer
interrupt and the pit should not be. So in legacy mode, the pit timer
is destroyed, but the *state* of the pit is maintained. So if kvm or
the guest tries to modify the state of the pit, this modification is
accepted, *except* that the timer isn't actually started. When we exit
hpet_legacy_mode, the current state of the pit (which is up to date
since we've been accepting modifications) is used to restart the pit
timer.
The saved_mode code in kvm_pit_load_count temporarily changes mode to
0xff in order to destroy the timer, but then restores the actual
value, again maintaining "current" state of the pit for possible later
reenablement.
[avi: add some reserved storage in the ioctl; make SET_PIT2 IOW]
[marcelo: fix memory corruption due to reserved storage]
Signed-off-by: Beth Kon <eak@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The in-kernel speaker emulation is only a dummy and also unneeded from
the performance point of view. Rather, it takes user space support to
generate sound output on the host, e.g. console beeps.
To allow this, introduce KVM_CREATE_PIT2 which controls in-kernel
speaker port emulation via a flag passed along the new IOCTL. It also
leaves room for future extensions of the PIT configuration interface.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Hide the internals of vcpu awakening / injection from the in-kernel
emulated timers. This makes future changes in this logic easier and
decreases the distance to more generic timer handling.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
While the PIT is masked the guest cannot ack the irq, so the reinject logic
will never allow the interrupt to be injected.
Fix by resetting the reinjection counters on unmask.
Unbreaks Xen.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Certain clocks (such as TSC) in older 2.6 guests overaccount for lost
ticks, causing severe time drift. Interrupt reinjection magnifies the
problem.
Provide an option to disable it.
[avi: allow room for expansion in case we want to disable reinjection
of other timers]
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Every call of kvm_set_irq() should offer an irq_source_id, which is
allocated by kvm_request_irq_source_id(). Based on irq_source_id, we
identify the irq source and implement logical OR for shared level
interrupts.
The allocated irq_source_id can be freed by kvm_free_irq_source_id().
Currently, we support at most sizeof(unsigned long) different irq sources.
[Amit: - rebase to kvm.git HEAD
- move definition of KVM_USERSPACE_IRQ_SOURCE_ID to common file
- move kvm_request_irq_source_id to the update_irq ioctl]
[Xiantao: - Add kvm/ia64 stuff and make it work for kvm/ia64 guests]
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Xiantao Zhang <xiantao.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The PIT injection logic is problematic under the following cases:
1) If there is a higher priority vector to be delivered by the time
kvm_pit_timer_intr_post is invoked ps->inject_pending won't be set.
This opens the possibility for missing many PIT event injections (say if
guest executes hlt at this point).
2) ps->inject_pending is racy with more than two vcpus. Since there's no locking
around read/dec of pt->pending, two vcpu's can inject two interrupts for a single
pt->pending count.
Fix 1 by using an irq ack notifier: only reinject when the previous irq
has been acked. Fix 2 with appropriate locking around manipulation of
pending count and irq_ack by the injection / ack paths.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
The patch moves the PIT model from userspace to kernel, and increases
the timer accuracy greatly.
[marcelo: make last_injected_time per-guest]
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng.yang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Tested-and-Acked-by: Alex Davis <alex14641@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
