From: "Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao" <fernando_b1@lab.ntt.co.jp>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, Will Auld <will.auld@intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH] kvm: clear guest TSC on reset
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 16:08:20 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1386054500.25757.10.camel@nexus> (raw)
VCPU TSC is not cleared by a warm reset (*), which leaves many Linux
guests vulnerable to the overflow in cyc2ns_offset fixed by upstream
commit 9993bc635d01a6ee7f6b833b4ee65ce7c06350b1 ("sched/x86: Fix overflow
in cyc2ns_offset").
To put it in a nutshell, if a Linux guest without the patch above applied
has been up more than 208 days and attempts a warm reset chances are that
the newly booted kernel will panic or hang.
(*) Intel Xeon E5 processors show the same broken behavior due to
the errata "TSC is Not Affected by Warm Reset" (Intel® Xeon®
Processor E5 Family Specification Update - August 2013): "The
TSC (Time Stamp Counter MSR 10H) should be cleared on
reset. Due to this erratum the TSC is not affected by warm
reset."
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Will Auld <will.auld@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp>
---
diff -urNp linux-3.13-rc2-orig/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c linux-3.13-rc2/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
--- linux-3.13-rc2-orig/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c 2013-11-30 05:57:14.000000000 +0900
+++ linux-3.13-rc2/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c 2013-12-03 14:51:53.747600839 +0900
@@ -6716,18 +6716,24 @@ int kvm_arch_vcpu_setup(struct kvm_vcpu
return r;
}
-int kvm_arch_vcpu_postcreate(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
+static void kvm_tsc_reset(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
{
- int r;
struct msr_data msr;
- r = vcpu_load(vcpu);
- if (r)
- return r;
msr.data = 0x0;
msr.index = MSR_IA32_TSC;
msr.host_initiated = true;
kvm_write_tsc(vcpu, &msr);
+}
+
+int kvm_arch_vcpu_postcreate(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
+{
+ int r;
+
+ r = vcpu_load(vcpu);
+ if (r)
+ return r;
+ kvm_tsc_reset(vcpu);
vcpu_put(vcpu);
return r;
@@ -6770,6 +6776,10 @@ void kvm_vcpu_reset(struct kvm_vcpu *vcp
kvm_pmu_reset(vcpu);
+ kvm_tsc_reset(vcpu);
+ if (guest_cpuid_has_tsc_adjust(vcpu))
+ vcpu->arch.ia32_tsc_adjust_msr = 0x0;
+
memset(vcpu->arch.regs, 0, sizeof(vcpu->arch.regs));
vcpu->arch.regs_avail = ~0;
vcpu->arch.regs_dirty = ~0;
next reply other threads:[~2013-12-03 7:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-03 7:08 Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao [this message]
2013-12-03 8:04 ` [PATCH] kvm: clear guest TSC on reset Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2013-12-05 6:08 ` Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2013-12-05 6:15 ` [PATCH] target-i386: " Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2013-12-05 9:28 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-12-05 13:15 ` Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao
2013-12-05 13:53 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-12-05 15:42 ` Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao
2013-12-05 16:02 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-12-05 16:40 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-12-05 17:06 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-12-05 16:17 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-12-05 16:38 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-12-06 8:24 ` Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2013-12-06 8:33 ` [PATCH 1//2 v3] " Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2013-12-06 8:38 ` [PATCH 2/2] target-i386: do not special case TSC writeback Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2013-12-06 8:36 ` [PATCH] target-i386: clear guest TSC on reset Paolo Bonzini
2013-12-06 8:56 ` Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2013-12-06 9:08 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-12-06 9:20 ` Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao
2013-12-06 14:22 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-12-09 8:50 ` Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2013-12-12 2:52 ` Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2013-12-12 12:18 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-12-05 16:12 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-12-05 16:32 ` Paolo Bonzini
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