angler-fishThe Vulnerability History Project

KVM: lapic: Allow user to disable adaptive tuning of timer advancement

      The introduction of adaptive tuning of lapic timer advancement did not
allow for the scenario where userspace would want to disable adaptive
tuning but still employ timer advancement, e.g. for testing purposes or
to handle a use case where adaptive tuning is unable to settle on a
suitable time.  This is epecially pertinent now that KVM places a hard
threshold on the maximum advancment time.

Rework the timer semantics to accept signed values, with a value of '-1'
being interpreted as "use adaptive tuning with KVM's internal default",
and any other value being used as an explicit advancement time, e.g. a
time of '0' effectively disables advancement.

Note, this does not completely restore the original behavior of
lapic_timer_advance_ns.  Prior to tracking the advancement per vCPU,
which is necessary to support autotuning, userspace could adjust
lapic_timer_advance_ns for *running* vCPU.  With per-vCPU tracking, the
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