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Christoffer Dall 13e59ece5b KVM: arm/arm64: Fix incorrect timer_is_pending logic
After the recently introduced support for level-triggered mapped
interrupt, I accidentally left the VCPU thread busily going back and
forward between the guest and the hypervisor whenever the guest was
blocking, because I would always incorrectly report that a timer
interrupt was pending.

This is because the timer->irq.level field is not valid for mapped
interrupts, where we offload the level state to the hardware, and as a
result this field is always true.

Luckily the problem can be relatively easily solved by not checking the
cached signal state of either timer in kvm_timer_should_fire() but
instead compute the timer state on the fly, which we do already if the
cached signal state wasn't high.  In fact, the only reason for checking
the cached signal state was a tiny optimization which would only be
potentially faster when the polling loop detects a pending timer
interrupt, which is quite unlikely.

Instead of duplicating the logic from kvm_arch_timer_handler(), we
enlighten kvm_timer_should_fire() to report something valid when the
timer state is loaded onto the hardware.  We can then call this from
kvm_arch_timer_handler() as well and avoid the call to
__timer_snapshot_state() in kvm_arch_timer_get_input_level().

Reported-by: Tomasz Nowicki <tn@semihalf.com>
Tested-by: Tomasz Nowicki <tn@semihalf.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
2018-01-31 10:10:17 +01:00
Documentation KVM: arm/arm64: Delete outdated forwarded irq documentation 2018-01-02 10:05:46 +01:00
arch KVM: arm/arm64: Fix trailing semicolon 2018-01-23 16:48:32 +01:00
block Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2017-12-01 08:05:45 -05:00
certs License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
crypto X.509: fix comparisons of ->pkey_algo 2017-12-08 15:13:29 +00:00
drivers ARM: SoC fixes for 4.15-rc 2017-12-10 08:26:59 -08:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs hpfs: don't bother with the i_version counter or f_version 2017-12-10 12:58:18 -08:00
include KVM: arm/arm64: Provide a get_input_level for the arch timer 2018-01-02 10:05:46 +01:00
init EXPERT Kconfig menu: fix broken EXPERT menu 2017-11-17 16:10:05 -08:00
ipc Rename superblock flags (MS_xyz -> SB_xyz) 2017-11-27 13:05:09 -08:00
kernel futex: futex_wake_op, fix sign_extend32 sign bits 2017-12-10 12:50:57 -08:00
lib Keyrings fixes 2017-12-09 14:39:48 +11:00
mm kmemcheck: rip it out for real 2017-12-08 13:40:17 -08:00
net tcp: evaluate packet losses upon RTT change 2017-12-08 14:14:11 -05:00
samples Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf 2017-12-03 13:08:30 -05:00
scripts A handful of documentation fixes. The most significant of these addresses 2017-12-04 13:55:28 -08:00
security KEYS: reject NULL restriction string when type is specified 2017-12-08 15:13:29 +00:00
sound sound fixes for 4.15-rc3 2017-12-06 10:49:14 -08:00
tools kmemcheck: rip it out for real 2017-12-08 13:40:17 -08:00
usr initramfs: fix initramfs rebuilds w/ compression after disabling 2017-11-03 07:39:19 -07:00
virt KVM: arm/arm64: Fix incorrect timer_is_pending logic 2018-01-31 10:10:17 +01:00
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MAINTAINERS ARM: SoC fixes for 4.15-rc 2017-12-10 08:26:59 -08:00
Makefile Linux 4.15-rc3 2017-12-10 17:56:26 -08:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

README

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

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

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.