xen/x86: don't lose event interrupts
authorStefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Sat, 16 Apr 2016 01:23:00 +0000 (18:23 -0700)
committerWilly Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Tue, 20 Jun 2017 12:04:52 +0000 (14:04 +0200)
commit1e46601d54d1649e4cea55790f8ad2c64e7f94d5
tree36440187b7e359266200d9aa2709fc758253afda
parent403642a01b6dceaff7054480d6a52f3b5e07cb8e
xen/x86: don't lose event interrupts

commit c06b6d70feb32d28f04ba37aa3df17973fd37b6b upstream.

On slow platforms with unreliable TSC, such as QEMU emulated machines,
it is possible for the kernel to request the next event in the past. In
that case, in the current implementation of xen_vcpuop_clockevent, we
simply return -ETIME. To be precise the Xen returns -ETIME and we pass
it on. However the result of this is a missed event, which simply causes
the kernel to hang.

Instead it is better to always ask the hypervisor for a timer event,
even if the timeout is in the past. That way there are no lost
interrupts and the kernel survives. To do that, remove the
VCPU_SSHOTTMR_future flag.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
arch/x86/xen/time.c