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* [PATCH v2 0/4] KVM: LAPIC: Rework lapic timer to behave more like real-hardware
@ 2017-09-29  1:04 Wanpeng Li
  2017-09-29  1:04 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] KVM: LAPIC: Fix lapic timer mode transition Wanpeng Li
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  0 siblings, 5 replies; 27+ messages in thread
From: Wanpeng Li @ 2017-09-29  1:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel, kvm; +Cc: Paolo Bonzini, Radim Krčmář, Wanpeng Li

The issue is reported in xen community.

Anthony PERARD pointed out:

https://www.mail-archive.com/xen-devel@lists.xen.org/msg117283.html#

 | When developing PVH for OVMF, I've used the lapic timer. It turns out that the
 | way it is used by OVMF did not work with Xen [1]. I tried to find out how
 | real-hw behave, and write a XTF tests [2]. And this patch series tries to fix
 | the behavior of the vlapic timer.
 | 
 | 
 | The OVMF driver for the APIC timer initialize the timer like this:
 | 	write to TMICT (initial counter)
 | 	write to TMDCR (divide configuration)
 | 	enable the timer (this may change timer mode from one-shot to periodic)
 | It turns out that TMICT is set to 0 on the last step, but OVMF expect the timer
 | to run.
 | 
 | Here is some description of the APIC timer, base on observation as well as read
 | of the Intel SDM. The description is also patch of patch description
 | (reworded).
 | 
 | Maybe a way of thinking how the APIC timer is evaluated, is to think of how
 | hardward will do it. There is a counter TMCCT which always keeps counting down.
 | 
 | Setting TMICT also set TMCCT, nothing else matter.
 | Setting LVTT does not change anything right away.
 | Setting TMDCR does not change much.
 | 
 | Now TMCCT keeps counting down, by a value related to TMDCR.
 | Once, TMCCT reach 0, it is only at this time that LVTT is taken into account.
 | Is there an interrupt to deliver? Should the timer restart counting from the
 | value in TMICT?
 | 
 | In the Intel SDM, there is the word "disarm" of the timer used. I guess the
 | easier way to disarm the APIC timer (when in periodic or one-shot) is to set
 | TMICT to 0. But if we take TSC-Deadline mode out of the picture, there is
 | nothing in the manual that say that the timer is disarm or stopped when
 | changing timer mode (there is only two modes left, period and one-shot).
 | 
 | As for the TSC-deadline timer mode, observation shown that changing to it (or
 | from it) does reset and disarm both timers, so effectively TMICT and the
 | tscdeadline are set to 0.
 | 
 | [1] https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2016-12/msg00959.html
 | [2] v1: 
 | https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2017-03/msg02533.html
 |     v2: look for "[XTF PATCH V2 0/3] Testing vlapic timer"

 In addition, Patch 3/4 implements the illegal vector error handling according to 
 SDM 10.5.2~10.5.3.

v1 -> v2:
 * add cover-letter and collect recent lapic patches to one patchset

Wanpeng Li (4):
  KVM: LAPIC: Fix lapic timer mode transition
  KVM: LAPIC: Keep timer running when switching between one-shot and periodic mode
  KVM: LAPIC: Apply change to TDCR right away to the timer
  KVM: LAPIC: Don't silently accept bad vectors

 arch/x86/include/asm/apicdef.h |  1 +
 arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c           | 90 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 2 files changed, 74 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

-- 
2.7.4

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2017-09-29  1:04 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] KVM: LAPIC: Fix lapic timer mode transition Wanpeng Li
2017-10-03 17:05   ` Radim Krčmář
2017-10-04  1:45     ` Wanpeng Li
2017-10-04 13:21       ` Radim Krčmář
2017-10-04 13:50         ` Wanpeng Li
2017-10-04 14:02           ` Wanpeng Li
2017-09-29  1:04 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] KVM: LAPIC: Keep timer running when switching between one-shot and periodic mode Wanpeng Li
2017-10-03 17:06   ` Radim Krčmář
2017-10-04  1:46     ` Wanpeng Li
2017-10-04 13:33       ` Radim Krčmář
2017-10-04 13:57         ` Wanpeng Li
2017-09-29  1:04 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] KVM: LAPIC: Apply change to TDCR right away to the timer Wanpeng Li
2017-10-03 17:28   ` Radim Krčmář
2017-10-04  1:59     ` Wanpeng Li
2017-10-04 12:43       ` Radim Krčmář
2017-09-29  1:04 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] KVM: LAPIC: Don't silently accept bad vectors Wanpeng Li
2017-10-03 17:53   ` Radim Krčmář
2017-10-04  7:56     ` Wanpeng Li
2017-10-04 12:01       ` Radim Krčmář
2017-10-04 14:16         ` Wanpeng Li
2017-10-04 14:44           ` Radim Krčmář
2017-10-13  1:17             ` Wanpeng Li
2017-10-13 17:36               ` Radim Krčmář
2017-10-13 20:31                 ` Radim Krčmář
2017-10-15  2:41                   ` Wanpeng Li
2017-10-05 10:57 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] KVM: LAPIC: Rework lapic timer to behave more like real-hardware Wanpeng Li

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