Patch "arm: KVM: Disable virtual timer even if the guest is not using it" has been added to the 4.2-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

arm: KVM: Disable virtual timer even if the guest is not using it

to the 4.2-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
arm-kvm-disable-virtual-timer-even-if-the-guest-is-not-using-it.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.2 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Marc Zyngier <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 16:18:59 +0100
Subject: arm: KVM: Disable virtual timer even if the guest is not using it

From: Marc Zyngier <[email protected]>

commit 688bc577ac42ae3d07c889a1f0a72f0b23763d58 upstream.

When running a guest with the architected timer disabled (with QEMU and the kernel_irqchip=off option, for example), it is important to make sure the timer gets turned off. Otherwise, the guest may try to enable it anyway, leading to a screaming HW interrupt.

The fix is to unconditionally turn off the virtual timer on guest exit.

---
 arch/arm/kvm/interrupts_head.S |    6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

@@ -515,8 +515,7 @@ ARM_BE8(rev	r6, r6  )
 
 	mrc	p15, 0, r2, c14, c3, 1	@ CNTV_CTL
 	str	r2, [vcpu, #VCPU_TIMER_CNTV_CTL]
-	bic	r2, #1			@ Clear ENABLE
-	mcr	p15, 0, r2, c14, c3, 1	@ CNTV_CTL
+
 	isb
 
 	mrrc	p15, 3, rr_lo_hi(r2, r3), c14	@ CNTV_CVAL

@@ -529,6 +528,9 @@ ARM_BE8(rev	r6, r6  )
 	mcrr	p15, 4, r2, r2, c14	@ CNTVOFF
 
 1:
+	mov	r2, #0			@ Clear ENABLE
+	mcr	p15, 0, r2, c14, c3, 1	@ CNTV_CTL
+
 	@ Allow physical timer/counter access for the host
 	mrc	p15, 4, r2, c14, c1, 0	@ CNTHCTL
 	orr	r2, r2, #(CNTHCTL_PL1PCEN | CNTHCTL_PL1PCTEN)

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.2/arm-kvm-fix-incorrect-device-to-ipa-mapping.patch queue-4.2/arm-kvm-disable-virtual-timer-even-if-the-guest-is-not-using-it.patch