KVM: x86: Consider LAPIC TSC-Deadline timer expired if deadline too short
If guest sets MSR_IA32_TSCDEADLINE to value such that in host time-domain it's shorter than lapic_timer_advance_ns, we can reach a case that we call hrtimer_start() with expiration time set at the past. Because lapic_timer.timer is init with HRTIMER_MODE_ABS_PINNED, it is not allowed to run in softirq and therefore will never expire. To avoid such a scenario, verify that deadline expiration time is set on host time-domain further than (now + lapic_timer_advance_ns). A future patch can also consider adding a min_timer_deadline_ns module parameter, similar to min_timer_period_us to avoid races that amount of ns it takes to run logic could still call hrtimer_start() with expiration timer set at the past. Reviewed-by: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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