releases/3.13.2/kvm-x86-limit-pit-timer-frequency.patch

From 9ed96e87c5748de4c2807ef17e81287c7304186c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 12:00:02 -0200
Subject: KVM: x86: limit PIT timer frequency

From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>

commit 9ed96e87c5748de4c2807ef17e81287c7304186c upstream.

Limit PIT timer frequency similarly to the limit applied by
LAPIC timer.

Reviewed-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c |   18 ++++++++++++++++++
 arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c |    3 ---
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c   |    3 +++
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.h   |    2 ++
 4 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
 
 #include "irq.h"
 #include "i8254.h"
+#include "x86.h"
 
 #ifndef CONFIG_X86_64
 #define mod_64(x, y) ((x) - (y) * div64_u64(x, y))
@@ -349,6 +350,23 @@ static void create_pit_timer(struct kvm
 	atomic_set(&ps->pending, 0);
 	ps->irq_ack = 1;
 
+	/*
+	 * Do not allow the guest to program periodic timers with small
+	 * interval, since the hrtimers are not throttled by the host
+	 * scheduler.
+	 */
+	if (ps->is_periodic) {
+		s64 min_period = min_timer_period_us * 1000LL;
+
+		if (ps->period < min_period) {
+			pr_info_ratelimited(
+			    "kvm: requested %lld ns "
+			    "i8254 timer period limited to %lld ns\n",
+			    ps->period, min_period);
+			ps->period = min_period;
+		}
+	}
+
 	hrtimer_start(&ps->timer, ktime_add_ns(ktime_get(), interval),
 		      HRTIMER_MODE_ABS);
 }
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
@@ -71,9 +71,6 @@
 #define VEC_POS(v) ((v) & (32 - 1))
 #define REG_POS(v) (((v) >> 5) << 4)
 
-static unsigned int min_timer_period_us = 500;
-module_param(min_timer_period_us, uint, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);
-
 static inline void apic_set_reg(struct kvm_lapic *apic, int reg_off, u32 val)
 {
 	*((u32 *) (apic->regs + reg_off)) = val;
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -94,6 +94,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_x86_ops);
 static bool ignore_msrs = 0;
 module_param(ignore_msrs, bool, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);
 
+unsigned int min_timer_period_us = 500;
+module_param(min_timer_period_us, uint, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);
+
 bool kvm_has_tsc_control;
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_has_tsc_control);
 u32  kvm_max_guest_tsc_khz;
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.h
@@ -125,5 +125,7 @@ int kvm_write_guest_virt_system(struct x
 #define KVM_SUPPORTED_XCR0	(XSTATE_FP | XSTATE_SSE | XSTATE_YMM)
 extern u64 host_xcr0;
 
+extern unsigned int min_timer_period_us;
+
 extern struct static_key kvm_no_apic_vcpu;
 #endif