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Anthoine Bourgeois ecf08dad72 KVM: x86: remove APIC Timer periodic/oneshot spikes
Since the commit "8003c9ae204e: add APIC Timer periodic/oneshot mode VMX
preemption timer support", a Windows 10 guest has some erratic timer
spikes.

Here the results on a 150000 times 1ms timer without any load:
	  Before 8003c9ae20 | After 8003c9ae20
Max           1834us          |  86000us
Mean          1100us          |   1021us
Deviation       59us          |    149us
Here the results on a 150000 times 1ms timer with a cpu-z stress test:
	  Before 8003c9ae20 | After 8003c9ae20
Max          32000us          | 140000us
Mean          1006us          |   1997us
Deviation      140us          |  11095us

The root cause of the problem is starting hrtimer with an expiry time
already in the past can take more than 20 milliseconds to trigger the
timer function.  It can be solved by forward such past timers
immediately, rather than submitting them to hrtimer_start().
In case the timer is periodic, update the target expiration and call
hrtimer_start with it.

v2: Check if the tsc deadline is already expired. Thank you Mika.
v3: Execute the past timers immediately rather than submitting them to
hrtimer_start().
v4: Rearm the periodic timer with advance_periodic_target_expiration() a
simpler version of set_target_expiration(). Thank you Paolo.

Cc: Mika Penttilä <mika.penttila@nextfour.com>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Anthoine Bourgeois <anthoine.bourgeois@blade-group.com>
8003c9ae20 ("KVM: LAPIC: add APIC Timer periodic/oneshot mode VMX preemption timer support")
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
2018-05-05 23:09:39 +02:00
arch KVM: x86: remove APIC Timer periodic/oneshot spikes 2018-05-05 23:09:39 +02:00
block Revert "blk-mq: remove code for dealing with remapping queue" 2018-04-25 09:49:22 -06:00
certs certs/blacklist_nohashes.c: fix const confusion in certs blacklist 2018-02-21 15:35:43 -08:00
crypto crypto: drbg - set freed buffers to NULL 2018-04-21 00:57:00 +08:00
Documentation Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-04-29 09:03:25 -07:00
drivers Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-04-29 09:03:25 -07:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs Fix misc. bugs and a regression for ext4. 2018-04-28 20:07:21 -07:00
include KVM/arm fixes for 4.17, take #2 2018-05-05 23:05:31 +02:00
init Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-04-15 16:12:35 -07:00
ipc ipc/shm: fix use-after-free of shm file via remap_file_pages() 2018-04-13 17:10:27 -07:00
kernel Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-04-29 09:03:25 -07:00
lib Driver core fixes for 4.17-rc3 2018-04-27 10:12:20 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add MPL-1.1 license 2018-01-06 10:59:44 -07:00
mm x86/pti: Filter at vma->vm_page_prot population 2018-04-25 11:02:51 +02:00
net A CephFS quota follow-up and fixes for two older issues in the 2018-04-27 10:56:29 -07:00
samples Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/livepatching 2018-04-20 08:51:55 -07:00
scripts Kbuild updates for v4.17 (2nd) 2018-04-15 17:21:30 -07:00
security Merge branch 'userns-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2018-04-24 17:58:51 -07:00
sound ALSA: dice: fix error path to destroy initialized stream data 2018-04-26 15:24:54 +02:00
tools Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-04-29 09:36:22 -07:00
usr kbuild: rename built-in.o to built-in.a 2018-03-26 02:01:19 +09:00
virt KVM/arm fixes for 4.17, take #2 2018-05-05 23:05:31 +02:00
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Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
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MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: add myself as maintainer of AFFS 2018-04-28 10:30:47 -07:00
Makefile Linux v4.17-rc3 2018-04-29 14:17:42 -07:00
README Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README 2018-03-21 09:02:53 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.