2016-06-13 18:44 GMT+08:00 Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com>:
>
>
> 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>
Thanks for your and Rik's review, actually there is a cover letter for
this version, it seems that it just send to ML and forgot to Cc
maintainers/reviewers.
Regards,
Wanpeng Li
