xen/x86: don't lose event interrupts
commit c06b6d70 upstream. On slow platforms with unreliable TSC, such as QEMU emulated machines, it is possible for the kernel to request the next event in the past. In that case, in the current implementation of xen_vcpuop_clockevent, we simply return -ETIME. To be precise the Xen returns -ETIME and we pass it on. However the result of this is a missed event, which simply causes the kernel to hang. Instead it is better to always ask the hypervisor for a timer event, even if the timeout is in the past. That way there are no lost interrupts and the kernel survives. To do that, remove the VCPU_SSHOTTMR_future flag. Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org> Acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
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