linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 5/5] KVM: LAPIC: add advance timer support to pi_inject

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Message-ID: <CANRm+Cxrn51mJUvjH7df+U-HpPPLJJzsRf+BMebxDogSabex3g@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 18 Jun 2019 08:44:00 +0800
From:   Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@...il.com>
To:     Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, kvm <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 5/5] KVM: LAPIC: add advance timer support to pi_inject_timer

On Tue, 18 Jun 2019 at 05:32, Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> 2019-06-17 19:24+0800, Wanpeng Li:
> > From: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>
> >
> > Wait before calling posted-interrupt deliver function directly to add
> > advance timer support to pi_inject_timer.
> >
> > Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
> > Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>
> > Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>
> > ---
>
> Please merge this patch with [2/5], so bisection doesn't break.

Agreed.

>
> >  arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c   | 6 ++++--
> >  arch/x86/kvm/lapic.h   | 2 +-
> >  arch/x86/kvm/svm.c     | 2 +-
> >  arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c | 2 +-
> >  4 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
> > index 1a31389..1a31ba5 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
> > @@ -1462,6 +1462,8 @@ static void apic_timer_expired(struct kvm_lapic *apic, bool can_pi_inject)
> >               return;
> >
> >       if (can_pi_inject && posted_interrupt_inject_timer(apic->vcpu)) {
> > +             if (apic->lapic_timer.timer_advance_ns)
> > +                     kvm_wait_lapic_expire(vcpu, true);
>
> From where does kvm_wait_lapic_expire() take
> apic->lapic_timer.expired_tscdeadline?

Sorry, I failed to understand this.
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm.git/tree/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c?h=queue#n1541
We can get apic->lapic_timer.expired_tscdeadline in
kvm_wait_lapic_expire() directly.

Regards,
Wanpeng Li