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From: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
To: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>,
	Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>,
	Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>, Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] KVM: LAPIC: Prevent setting the tscdeadline timer if the lapic is hw disabled
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2020 12:35:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o8o9p356.fsf@vitty.brq.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1595323468-4380-1-git-send-email-wanpengli@tencent.com>

Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com> writes:

> From: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
>
> Prevent setting the tscdeadline timer if the lapic is hw disabled.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
> index 5bf72fc..4ce2ddd 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
> @@ -2195,7 +2195,7 @@ void kvm_set_lapic_tscdeadline_msr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 data)
>  {
>  	struct kvm_lapic *apic = vcpu->arch.apic;
>  
> -	if (!lapic_in_kernel(vcpu) || apic_lvtt_oneshot(apic) ||
> +	if (!kvm_apic_present(vcpu) || apic_lvtt_oneshot(apic) ||
>  			apic_lvtt_period(apic))
>  		return;

Out of pure curiosity, what is the architectural behavior if I disable
LAPIC, write to IA32_TSC_DEADLINE and then re-enable LAPIC before the
timer was supposed to fire?

-- 
Vitaly


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-07-21 10:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-21  9:24 [PATCH 1/2] KVM: LAPIC: Prevent setting the tscdeadline timer if the lapic is hw disabled Wanpeng Li
2020-07-21  9:24 ` [PATCH 2/2] KVM: LAPIC: Set the TDCR settable bits Wanpeng Li
2020-07-21 10:51   ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2020-07-27  3:29     ` Wanpeng Li
2020-07-21 10:35 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov [this message]
2020-07-21 15:25   ` [PATCH 1/2] KVM: LAPIC: Prevent setting the tscdeadline timer if the lapic is hw disabled Sean Christopherson
2020-07-27  6:18     ` Wanpeng Li

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