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Christoffer Dall 1a74847885 arm/arm64: KVM: Fix migration race in the arch timer
When a VCPU is no longer running, we currently check to see if it has a
timer scheduled in the future, and if it does, we schedule a host
hrtimer to notify is in case the timer expires while the VCPU is still
not running.  When the hrtimer fires, we mask the guest's timer and
inject the timer IRQ (still relying on the guest unmasking the time when
it receives the IRQ).

This is all good and fine, but when migration a VM (checkpoint/restore)
this introduces a race.  It is unlikely, but possible, for the following
sequence of events to happen:

 1. Userspace stops the VM
 2. Hrtimer for VCPU is scheduled
 3. Userspace checkpoints the VGIC state (no pending timer interrupts)
 4. The hrtimer fires, schedules work in a workqueue
 5. Workqueue function runs, masks the timer and injects timer interrupt
 6. Userspace checkpoints the timer state (timer masked)

At restore time, you end up with a masked timer without any timer
interrupts and your guest halts never receiving timer interrupts.

Fix this by only kicking the VCPU in the workqueue function, and sample
the expired state of the timer when entering the guest again and inject
the interrupt and mask the timer only then.

Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
2015-03-14 13:48:00 +01:00
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acpi Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rzhang/linux 2015-02-19 11:28:36 -08:00
asm-generic OK, this has the big virtio 1.0 implementation, as specified by OASIS. 2015-02-18 09:24:01 -08:00
clocksource
crypto Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2015-02-14 09:47:01 -08:00
drm
dt-bindings The clock framework changes for 3.20 contain the usual driver additions, 2015-02-21 12:30:30 -08:00
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kvm arm/arm64: KVM: Fix migration race in the arch timer 2015-03-14 13:48:00 +01:00
linux KVM: introduce kvm_arch_intc_initialized and use it in irqfd 2015-03-12 15:15:32 +01:00
math-emu
media
memory
misc
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2015-02-17 17:41:19 -08:00
pcmcia
ras
rdma
rxrpc
scsi Merge branch 'for-3.20/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2015-02-12 14:13:23 -08:00
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sound
target Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending 2015-02-21 13:21:19 -08:00
trace Merge branch 'lazytime' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2015-02-17 16:12:34 -08:00
uapi Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus 2015-02-21 19:41:38 -08:00
video Merge branch 'drm-next' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux 2015-02-16 15:48:00 -08:00
xen Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2015-02-10 20:01:30 -08:00
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