KVM: x86: limit PIT timer frequency

commit 9ed96e87 upstream.

Limit PIT timer frequency similarly to the limit applied by
LAPIC timer.
Reviewed-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2:
 - Adjust context
 - s/ps->period/pt->period/]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>

arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c

@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
 
 #include "irq.h"
 #include "i8254.h"
+#include "x86.h"
 
 #ifndef CONFIG_X86_64
 #define mod_64(x, y) ((x) - (y) * div64_u64(x, y))
@@ -364,6 +365,23 @@ static void create_pit_timer(struct kvm *kvm, u32 val, int is_period)
 	atomic_set(&pt->pending, 0);
 	ps->irq_ack = 1;
 
+	/*
+	 * Do not allow the guest to program periodic timers with small
+	 * interval, since the hrtimers are not throttled by the host
+	 * scheduler.
+	 */
+	if (ps->is_periodic) {
+		s64 min_period = min_timer_period_us * 1000LL;
+
+		if (pt->period < min_period) {
+			pr_info_ratelimited(
+			    "kvm: requested %lld ns "
+			    "i8254 timer period limited to %lld ns\n",
+			    pt->period, min_period);
+			pt->period = min_period;
+		}
+	}
+
 	hrtimer_start(&pt->timer, ktime_add_ns(ktime_get(), interval),
 		      HRTIMER_MODE_ABS);
 }

arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c

@@ -68,9 +68,6 @@
 #define VEC_POS(v) ((v) & (32 - 1))
 #define REG_POS(v) (((v) >> 5) << 4)
 
-static unsigned int min_timer_period_us = 500;
-module_param(min_timer_period_us, uint, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);
-
 static inline u32 apic_get_reg(struct kvm_lapic *apic, int reg_off)
 {
 	return *((u32 *) (apic->regs + reg_off));

arch/x86/kvm/x86.c

@@ -92,6 +92,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_x86_ops);
 int ignore_msrs = 0;
 module_param_named(ignore_msrs, ignore_msrs, bool, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);
 
+unsigned int min_timer_period_us = 500;
+module_param(min_timer_period_us, uint, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);
+
 bool kvm_has_tsc_control;
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_has_tsc_control);
 u32  kvm_max_guest_tsc_khz;

arch/x86/kvm/x86.h

@@ -125,4 +125,6 @@ int kvm_write_guest_virt_system(struct x86_emulate_ctxt *ctxt,
 	gva_t addr, void *val, unsigned int bytes,
 	struct x86_exception *exception);
 
+extern unsigned int min_timer_period_us;
+
 #endif