From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: mtosatti@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
glommer@redhat.com, Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Subject: [PATCH V2] KVM: x86: disable stealtime on reboot to avoid mem corruption
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 16:00:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1345039240-29959-1-git-send-email-fw@strlen.de> (raw)
else, host continues to update stealtime after reboot,
which can corrupt e.g. initramfs area.
found when tracking down initramfs unpack error on initial reboot
(with qemu-kvm -smp 2, no problem with single-core).
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
---
arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c | 1 +
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
Changes since v1:
- leave arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c as-is (requested by Marcelo)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
index c1d61ee..1596cc8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
@@ -354,6 +354,7 @@ static void kvm_pv_guest_cpu_reboot(void *unused)
if (kvm_para_has_feature(KVM_FEATURE_PV_EOI))
wrmsrl(MSR_KVM_PV_EOI_EN, 0);
kvm_pv_disable_apf();
+ kvm_disable_steal_time();
}
static int kvm_pv_reboot_notify(struct notifier_block *nb,
--
1.7.8.6
next reply other threads:[~2012-08-15 13:59 UTC|newest]
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2012-08-15 14:00 Florian Westphal [this message]
2012-08-15 18:31 ` [PATCH V2] KVM: x86: disable stealtime on reboot to avoid mem corruption Marcelo Tosatti
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