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authorBharat Bhushan <r65777@freescale.com>2011-03-25 10:32:13 +0530
committerAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>2011-05-11 07:57:04 -0400
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KVM: PPC: Fix issue clearing exit timing counters
Following dump is observed on host when clearing the exit timing counters [root@p1021mds kvm]# echo -n 'c' > vm1200_vcpu0_timing INFO: task echo:1276 blocked for more than 120 seconds. "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. echo D 0ff5bf94 0 1276 1190 0x00000000 Call Trace: [c2157e40] [c0007908] __switch_to+0x9c/0xc4 [c2157e50] [c040293c] schedule+0x1b4/0x3bc [c2157e90] [c04032dc] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x74/0xc0 [c2157ec0] [c00369e4] kvmppc_init_timing_stats+0x20/0xb8 [c2157ed0] [c0036b00] kvmppc_exit_timing_write+0x84/0x98 [c2157ef0] [c00b9f90] vfs_write+0xc0/0x16c [c2157f10] [c00ba284] sys_write+0x4c/0x90 [c2157f40] [c000e320] ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x3c The vcpu->mutex is used by kvm_ioctl_* (KVM_RUN etc) and same was used when clearing the stats (in kvmppc_init_timing_stats()). What happens is that when the guest is idle then it held the vcpu->mutx. While the exiting timing process waits for guest to release the vcpu->mutex and a hang state is reached. Now using seprate lock for exit timing stats. Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan <Bharat.Bhushan@freescale.com> Acked-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kvm/timing.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kvm/timing.c10
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/timing.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/timing.c
index a021f5827a3..18f40fd3e98 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/timing.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/timing.c
@@ -34,8 +34,8 @@ void kvmppc_init_timing_stats(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
{
int i;
- /* pause guest execution to avoid concurrent updates */
- mutex_lock(&vcpu->mutex);
+ /* Take a lock to avoid concurrent updates */
+ mutex_lock(&vcpu->arch.exit_timing_lock);
vcpu->arch.last_exit_type = 0xDEAD;
for (i = 0; i < __NUMBER_OF_KVM_EXIT_TYPES; i++) {
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ void kvmppc_init_timing_stats(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
vcpu->arch.timing_exit.tv64 = 0;
vcpu->arch.timing_last_enter.tv64 = 0;
- mutex_unlock(&vcpu->mutex);
+ mutex_unlock(&vcpu->arch.exit_timing_lock);
}
static void add_exit_timing(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 duration, int type)
@@ -65,6 +65,8 @@ static void add_exit_timing(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 duration, int type)
return;
}
+ mutex_lock(&vcpu->arch.exit_timing_lock);
+
vcpu->arch.timing_count_type[type]++;
/* sum */
@@ -93,6 +95,8 @@ static void add_exit_timing(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 duration, int type)
vcpu->arch.timing_min_duration[type] = duration;
if (unlikely(duration > vcpu->arch.timing_max_duration[type]))
vcpu->arch.timing_max_duration[type] = duration;
+
+ mutex_unlock(&vcpu->arch.exit_timing_lock);
}
void kvmppc_update_timing_stats(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)