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Commit 235cee16 authored by Laurent Vivier's avatar Laurent Vivier Committed by Michael Ellerman
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KVM: PPC: Tick accounting should defer vtime accounting 'til after IRQ handling



Commit 11266528 ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Context tracking exit guest
context before enabling irqs") moved guest_exit() into the interrupt
protected area to avoid wrong context warning (or worse). The problem is
that tick-based time accounting has not yet been updated at this point
(because it depends on the timer interrupt firing), so the guest time
gets incorrectly accounted to system time.

To fix the problem, follow the x86 fix in commit 16045714 ("Defer
vtime accounting 'til after IRQ handling"), and allow host IRQs to run
before accounting the guest exit time.

In the case vtime accounting is enabled, this is not required because TB
is used directly for accounting.

Before this patch, with CONFIG_TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING=y in the host and a
guest running a kernel compile, the 'guest' fields of /proc/stat are
stuck at zero. With the patch they can be observed increasing roughly as
expected.

Fixes: e233d54d ("KVM: booke: use __kvm_guest_exit")
Fixes: 11266528 ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Context tracking exit guest context before enabling irqs")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.12+
Signed-off-by: default avatarLaurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
[np: only required for tick accounting, add Book3E fix, tweak changelog]
Signed-off-by: default avatarNicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211027142150.3711582-1-npiggin@gmail.com
parent 322fda04
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