On 13/06/2016 12:32, Wanpeng Li wrote:
> From: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng...@hotmail.com>
>
> Sometimes, after CPU hotplug you can observe a spike in stolen time
> (100%) followed by the CPU being marked as 100% idle when it's actually
> busy with a CPU hog task. The trace looks like the following:
>
> cpuhp/1-12 [001] d.h1 167.461657: account_process_tick: steal =
> 1291385514, prev_steal_time = 0
> cpuhp/1-12 [001] d.h1 167.461659: account_process_tick: steal_jiffies =
> 1291
> <idle>-0 [001] d.h1 167.462663: account_process_tick: steal = 18732255,
> prev_steal_time = 1291000000
> <idle>-0 [001] d.h1 167.462664: account_process_tick: steal_jiffies =
> 18446744072437
>
> The sudden decrease of "steal" causes steal_jiffies to underflow.
> The root cause is kvm_steal_time being reset to 0 after hot-plugging
> back in a CPU. Instead, the preexisting value can be used, which is
> what the core scheduler code expects.
>
> John Stultz also reported a similar issue after guest S3.
>
> Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com>
> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com>
> Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrc...@redhat.com>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <pet...@infradead.org>
> Cc: Rik van Riel <r...@redhat.com>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweis...@gmail.com>
> Cc: John Stultz <john.stu...@linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng...@hotmail.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c | 2 --
> 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
> index eea2a6f..1ef5e48 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
> @@ -301,8 +301,6 @@ static void kvm_register_steal_time(void)
> if (!has_steal_clock)
> return;
>
> - memset(st, 0, sizeof(*st));
> -
> wrmsrl(MSR_KVM_STEAL_TIME, (slow_virt_to_phys(st) | KVM_MSR_ENABLED));
> pr_info("kvm-stealtime: cpu %d, msr %llx\n",
> cpu, (unsigned long long) slow_virt_to_phys(st));
>
Because there's no cover letter, I guess I have to ack each patch
independently.
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com>
Also, there's really no relation between patches 1-2 and 3...
Paolo
