KVM: arm/arm64: Fix preemptible timer active state crazyness

We were setting the physical active state on the GIC distributor in a
preemptible section, which could cause us to set the active state on
different physical CPU from the one we were actually going to run on,
hacoc ensues.

Since we are no longer descheduling/scheduling soft timers in the
flush/sync timer functions, simply moving the timer flush into a
non-preemptible section.

Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c b/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c
index eab83b2435b8..e06fd299de08 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c
@@ -564,17 +564,12 @@ int kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_run *run)
 			vcpu_sleep(vcpu);
 
 		/*
-		 * Disarming the background timer must be done in a
-		 * preemptible context, as this call may sleep.
-		 */
-		kvm_timer_flush_hwstate(vcpu);
-
-		/*
 		 * Preparing the interrupts to be injected also
 		 * involves poking the GIC, which must be done in a
 		 * non-preemptible context.
 		 */
 		preempt_disable();
+		kvm_timer_flush_hwstate(vcpu);
 		kvm_vgic_flush_hwstate(vcpu);
 
 		local_irq_disable();