[PATCH 4.4 06/50] kvm: cap halt polling at exactly halt_poll_ns

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-03-14T18:13:11Z

From: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>

commit 313f636d5c490c9741d3f750dc8da33029edbc6b upstream.

When growing halt-polling, there is no check that the poll time exceeds
the limit. It's possible for vcpu->halt_poll_ns grow once past
halt_poll_ns, and stay there until a halt which takes longer than
vcpu->halt_poll_ns. For example, booting a Linux guest with
halt_poll_ns=11000:

... kvm:kvm_halt_poll_ns: vcpu 0: halt_poll_ns 0 (shrink 10000)
... kvm:kvm_halt_poll_ns: vcpu 0: halt_poll_ns 10000 (grow 0)
... kvm:kvm_halt_poll_ns: vcpu 0: halt_poll_ns 20000 (grow 10000)

Signed-off-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Fixes: aca6ff29c4063a8d467cdee241e6b3bf7dc4a171
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -1961,6 +1961,9 @@ static void grow_halt_poll_ns(struct kvm
else
val *= halt_poll_ns_grow;

+ if (val > halt_poll_ns)
+ val = halt_poll_ns;
+
vcpu->halt_poll_ns = val;
trace_kvm_halt_poll_ns_grow(vcpu->vcpu_id, val, old);
}