Re: [PATCH] KVM: fix polling for guest halt continued even if disable it

From: Christian Borntraeger
Date: Tue Sep 15 2015 - 03:16:52 EST


Am 14.09.2015 um 11:38 schrieb Wanpeng Li:
> If there is already some polling ongoing, it's impossible to disable the
> polling, since as soon as somebody sets halt_poll_ns to 0, polling will
> never stop, as grow and shrink are only handled if halt_poll_ns is != 0.
>
> This patch fix it by reset vcpu->halt_poll_ns in order to stop polling
> when polling is disabled.
>
> Reported-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> index 4662a88..f756cac0 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> @@ -2012,7 +2012,8 @@ out:
> else if (vcpu->halt_poll_ns < halt_poll_ns &&
> block_ns < halt_poll_ns)
> grow_halt_poll_ns(vcpu);
> - }
> + } else
> + vcpu->halt_poll_ns = 0;
>
> trace_kvm_vcpu_wakeup(block_ns, waited);
> }
>

Tested-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx>

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