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Like Xu 75189d1de1 KVM: x86/pmu: Update AMD PMC sample period to fix guest NMI-watchdog
NMI-watchdog is one of the favorite features of kernel developers,
but it does not work in AMD guest even with vPMU enabled and worse,
the system misrepresents this capability via /proc.

This is a PMC emulation error. KVM does not pass the latest valid
value to perf_event in time when guest NMI-watchdog is running, thus
the perf_event corresponding to the watchdog counter will enter the
old state at some point after the first guest NMI injection, forcing
the hardware register PMC0 to be constantly written to 0x800000000001.

Meanwhile, the running counter should accurately reflect its new value
based on the latest coordinated pmc->counter (from vPMC's point of view)
rather than the value written directly by the guest.

Fixes: 168d918f26 ("KVM: x86: Adjust counter sample period after a wrmsr")
Reported-by: Dongli Cao <caodongli@kingsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Like Xu <likexu@tencent.com>
Reviewed-by: Yanan Wang <wangyanan55@huawei.com>
Tested-by: Yanan Wang <wangyanan55@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Message-Id: <20220409015226.38619-1-likexu@tencent.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2022-04-21 13:16:14 -04:00
arch KVM: x86/pmu: Update AMD PMC sample period to fix guest NMI-watchdog 2022-04-21 13:16:14 -04:00
block block: don't print I/O error warning for dead disks 2022-04-15 06:33:03 -06:00
certs Kbuild updates for v5.18 2022-03-31 11:59:03 -07:00
crypto for-5.18/64bit-pi-2022-03-25 2022-03-26 12:01:35 -07:00
Documentation Devicetree fixes for v5.18, part 2: 2022-04-16 17:07:50 -07:00
drivers xen: branch for v5.18-rc3 2022-04-17 10:29:10 -07:00
fs Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2022-04-15 15:57:18 -07:00
include KVM: Add helpers to wrap vcpu->srcu_idx and yell if it's abused 2022-04-21 13:16:11 -04:00
init Kbuild updates for v5.18 2022-03-31 11:59:03 -07:00
ipc fs: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb() 2022-03-22 15:57:03 -07:00
kernel A small set of fixes for the timers core: 2022-04-17 09:53:01 -07:00
lib Driver core changes for 5.18-rc2 2022-04-10 09:55:09 -10:00
LICENSES LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers 2021-12-16 14:33:10 +01:00
mm mm: kmemleak: take a full lowmem check in kmemleak_*_phys() 2022-04-15 14:49:56 -07:00
net Networking fixes for 5.18-rc3, including fixes from wireless and 2022-04-14 11:58:19 -07:00
samples dma-mapping updates for Linux 5.18 2022-03-29 08:50:14 -07:00
scripts hardening fixes for v5.18-rc3 2022-04-12 14:29:40 -10:00
security hardening updates for v5.18-rc1-fix1 2022-03-31 11:43:01 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 5.18-rc3 2022-04-14 11:08:12 -07:00
tools Two x86 fixes related to TSX: 2022-04-17 09:55:59 -07:00
usr Kbuild updates for v5.18 2022-03-31 11:59:03 -07:00
virt KVM: SPDX style and spelling fixes 2022-04-21 13:16:13 -04:00
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CREDITS MAINTAINERS: replace a Microchip AT91 maintainer 2022-02-09 11:30:01 +01:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS ARM: SoC fixes for 5.18, part 2 2022-04-16 16:51:39 -07:00
Makefile Linux 5.18-rc3 2022-04-17 13:57:31 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.