linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 08/11] x86/xen: save and restore steal clock during PM hibernation

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Thu, 2 Jul 2020 18:22:51 +0000
From:   Anchal Agarwal <anchalag@...zon.com>
To:     <tglx@...utronix.de>, <mingo@...hat.com>, <bp@...en8.de>,
        <hpa@...or.com>, <x86@...nel.org>, <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
        <jgross@...e.com>, <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-mm@...ck.org>, <kamatam@...zon.com>,
        <sstabellini@...nel.org>, <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
        <roger.pau@...rix.com>, <axboe@...nel.dk>, <davem@...emloft.net>,
        <rjw@...ysocki.net>, <len.brown@...el.com>, <pavel@....cz>,
        <peterz@...radead.org>, <eduval@...zon.com>, <sblbir@...zon.com>,
        <anchalag@...zon.com>, <xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org>,
        <vkuznets@...hat.com>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <dwmw@...zon.co.uk>,
        <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2 08/11] x86/xen: save and restore steal clock during PM
 hibernation

Save/restore steal times in syscore suspend/resume during PM
hibernation. Commit '5e25f5db6abb9: ("xen/time: do not
decrease steal time after live migration on xen")' fixes xen
guest steal time handling during migration. A similar issue is seen
during PM hibernation.
Currently, steal time accounting code in scheduler expects steal clock
callback to provide monotonically increasing value. If the accounting
code receives a smaller value than previous one, it uses a negative
value to calculate steal time and results in incorrectly updated idle
and steal time accounting. This breaks userspace tools which read
/proc/stat.

top - 08:05:35 up  2:12,  3 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.07, 0.23
Tasks:  80 total,   1 running,  79 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  0.0%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni,30100.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi, 0.0%si,-1253874204672.0%st

This can actually happen when a Xen PVHVM guest gets restored from
hibernation, because such a restored guest is just a fresh domain from
Xen perspective and the time information in runstate info starts over
from scratch.

Changelog:
v1->v2: Removed patches that introduced new function calls for saving/restoring
        sched clock offset and using existing ones that are used during LM

Signed-off-by: Anchal Agarwal <anchalag@...zon.com>
---
 arch/x86/xen/suspend.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/suspend.c b/arch/x86/xen/suspend.c
index e8c924e93fc5..10cd14326472 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/suspend.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/suspend.c
@@ -94,10 +94,9 @@ static int xen_syscore_suspend(void)
 	int ret;
 
 	gnttab_suspend();
-
+	xen_manage_runstate_time(-1);
 	xrfp.domid = DOMID_SELF;
 	xrfp.gpfn = __pa(HYPERVISOR_shared_info) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
-
 	ret = HYPERVISOR_memory_op(XENMEM_remove_from_physmap, &xrfp);
 	if (!ret)
 		HYPERVISOR_shared_info = &xen_dummy_shared_info;
@@ -111,7 +110,7 @@ static void xen_syscore_resume(void)
 	xen_hvm_map_shared_info();
 
 	pvclock_resume();
-
+	xen_manage_runstate_time(0);
 	gnttab_resume();
 }
 
-- 
2.20.1