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KVM: x86: Optimize NMI watchdog delivery

PATCH New Jan Kiszka 1 participant 1 message Oct 1, 2008

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PATCH 1/1 KVM: x86: Optimize NMI watchdog delivery

As suggested by Avi, this patch introduces a counter of VCPUs that have LVT0 set to NMI mode. Only if the counter > 0, we push the PIT ticks via all LAPIC LVT0 lines to enable NMI watchdog support.

---
 arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c       |   13 +++++++------
 arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c       |   23 ++++++++++++++++++++---
 include/asm-x86/kvm_host.h |    1 +
 3 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c +7 -6
Index: b/arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c
===================================================================
@@ -607,12 +607,13 @@ static void __inject_pit_timer_intr(stru
 	 * The route is: PIT -> PIC -> LVT0 in NMI mode,
 	 * timer IRQs will continue to flow through the IOAPIC.
 	 */
-	for (i = 0; i < KVM_MAX_VCPUS; ++i) {
-		vcpu = kvm->vcpus[i];
-		if (!vcpu)
-			continue;
-		kvm_apic_local_deliver(vcpu, APIC_LVT0);
-	}
+	if (kvm->arch.vapics_in_nmi_mode > 0)
+		for (i = 0; i < KVM_MAX_VCPUS; ++i) {
+			vcpu = kvm->vcpus[i];
+			if (!vcpu)
+				continue;
+			kvm_apic_local_deliver(vcpu, APIC_LVT0);
+		}
 }
 
 void kvm_inject_pit_timer_irqs(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c +20 -3
Index: b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
===================================================================
@@ -130,6 +130,11 @@ static inline int apic_lvtt_period(struc
 	return apic_get_reg(apic, APIC_LVTT) & APIC_LVT_TIMER_PERIODIC;
 }
 
+static inline int apic_lvt_nmi_mode(u32 lvt_val)
+{
+	return (lvt_val & (APIC_MODE_MASK | APIC_LVT_MASKED)) == APIC_DM_NMI;
+}
+
 static unsigned int apic_lvt_mask[APIC_LVT_NUM] = {
 	LVT_MASK | APIC_LVT_TIMER_PERIODIC,	/* LVTT */
 	LVT_MASK | APIC_MODE_MASK,	/* LVTTHMR */
@@ -672,6 +677,20 @@ static void start_apic_timer(struct kvm_
 					apic->timer.period)));
 }
 
+static void apic_manage_nmi_watchdog(struct kvm_lapic *apic, u32 lvt0_val)
+{
+	int nmi_wd_enabled = apic_lvt_nmi_mode(apic_get_reg(apic, APIC_LVT0));
+
+	if (apic_lvt_nmi_mode(lvt0_val)) {
+		if (!nmi_wd_enabled) {
+			apic_debug("Receive NMI setting on APIC_LVT0 "
+				   "for cpu %d\n", apic->vcpu->vcpu_id);
+			apic->vcpu->kvm->arch.vapics_in_nmi_mode++;
+		}
+	} else if (nmi_wd_enabled)
+		apic->vcpu->kvm->arch.vapics_in_nmi_mode--;
+}
+
 static void apic_mmio_write(struct kvm_io_device *this,
 			    gpa_t address, int len, const void *data)
 {
@@ -753,9 +772,7 @@ static void apic_mmio_write(struct kvm_i
 		break;
 
 	case APIC_LVT0:
-		if (val == APIC_DM_NMI)
-			apic_debug("Receive NMI setting on APIC_LVT0 "
-				"for cpu %d\n", apic->vcpu->vcpu_id);
+		apic_manage_nmi_watchdog(apic, val);
 	case APIC_LVTT:
 	case APIC_LVTTHMR:
 	case APIC_LVTPC:
include/asm-x86/kvm_host.h +1 -0
Index: b/include/asm-x86/kvm_host.h
===================================================================
@@ -356,6 +356,7 @@ struct kvm_arch{
 	struct kvm_ioapic *vioapic;
 	struct kvm_pit *vpit;
 	struct hlist_head irq_ack_notifier_list;
+	int vapics_in_nmi_mode;
 
 	int round_robin_prev_vcpu;
 	unsigned int tss_addr;