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    KVM: lapic: Track lapic timer advance per vCPU · 39497d76
    Sean Christopherson authored
    Automatically adjusting the globally-shared timer advancement could
    corrupt the timer, e.g. if multiple vCPUs are concurrently adjusting
    the advancement value.  That could be partially fixed by using a local
    variable for the arithmetic, but it would still be susceptible to a
    race when setting timer_advance_adjust_done.
    
    And because virtual_tsc_khz and tsc_scaling_ratio are per-vCPU, the
    correct calibration for a given vCPU may not apply to all vCPUs.
    
    Furthermore, lapic_timer_advance_ns is marked __read_mostly, which is
    effectively violated when finding a stable advancement takes an extended
    amount of timer.
    
    Opportunistically change the definition of lapic_timer_advance_ns to
    a u32 so that it matches the style of struct kvm_timer.  Explicitly
    pass the param to kvm_create_lapic() so that it doesn't have to be
    exposed to lapic.c, thus reducing the probability of unintentionally
    using the global value instead of the per-vCPU value.
    
    Cc: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
    Cc: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarLiran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
    Fixes: 3b8a5df6 ("KVM: LAPIC: Tune lapic_timer_advance_ns automatically")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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