From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965382AbcFMKc6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Jun 2016 06:32:58 -0400 Received: from mail-pa0-f66.google.com ([209.85.220.66]:35222 "EHLO mail-pa0-f66.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964910AbcFMKcz (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Jun 2016 06:32:55 -0400 From: Wanpeng Li X-Google-Original-From: Wanpeng Li To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org Cc: Wanpeng Li , Paolo Bonzini , =?UTF-8?q?Radim=20Kr=C4=8Dm=C3=A1=C5=99?= , Ingo Molnar , "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" , Rik van Riel , Thomas Gleixner , Frederic Weisbecker , John Stultz Subject: [PATCH v6 1/3] KVM: fix steal clock warp during guest cpu hotplug Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 18:32:44 +0800 Message-Id: <1465813966-3116-2-git-send-email-wanpeng.li@hotmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.9.1 In-Reply-To: <1465813966-3116-1-git-send-email-wanpeng.li@hotmail.com> References: <1465813966-3116-1-git-send-email-wanpeng.li@hotmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Wanpeng Li Sometimes, after CPU hotplug you can observe a spike in stolen time (100%) followed by the CPU being marked as 100% idle when it's actually busy with a CPU hog task. The trace looks like the following: cpuhp/1-12 [001] d.h1 167.461657: account_process_tick: steal = 1291385514, prev_steal_time = 0 cpuhp/1-12 [001] d.h1 167.461659: account_process_tick: steal_jiffies = 1291 -0 [001] d.h1 167.462663: account_process_tick: steal = 18732255, prev_steal_time = 1291000000 -0 [001] d.h1 167.462664: account_process_tick: steal_jiffies = 18446744072437 The sudden decrease of "steal" causes steal_jiffies to underflow. The root cause is kvm_steal_time being reset to 0 after hot-plugging back in a CPU. Instead, the preexisting value can be used, which is what the core scheduler code expects. John Stultz also reported a similar issue after guest S3. Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Radim Krčmář Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: John Stultz Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li --- arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c index eea2a6f..1ef5e48 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c @@ -301,8 +301,6 @@ static void kvm_register_steal_time(void) if (!has_steal_clock) return; - memset(st, 0, sizeof(*st)); - wrmsrl(MSR_KVM_STEAL_TIME, (slow_virt_to_phys(st) | KVM_MSR_ENABLED)); pr_info("kvm-stealtime: cpu %d, msr %llx\n", cpu, (unsigned long long) slow_virt_to_phys(st)); -- 1.9.1