KVM: Fix steal clock warp during guest CPU hotplug
authorWanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>
Mon, 13 Jun 2016 10:32:44 +0000 (18:32 +0800)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tue, 14 Jun 2016 09:13:14 +0000 (11:13 +0200)
commit2348140d58f4f4245e9635ea8f1a77e940a4d877
tree40ace7992fc568e6b482a47d7d7bed6a5114ff87
parent07f9f22087a94e8162f77ee997c52a23f158aee8
KVM: Fix steal clock warp during guest CPU hotplug

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 <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1465813966-3116-2-git-send-email-wanpeng.li@hotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c