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KVM: LAPIC: Mark hrtimer to expire in hard interrupt context
authorSebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Fri, 26 Jul 2019 18:30:55 +0000 (20:30 +0200)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Thu, 1 Aug 2019 18:51:20 +0000 (20:51 +0200)
commit2c0d278f3293fc59da0d183075415ca1e8c93b40
tree214f5bb35b62a158046d3a7efd8636d96c9b90a5
parentd2ab4cf4943576fb060b8a69341d9e0c2a952ba7
KVM: LAPIC: Mark hrtimer to expire in hard interrupt context

On PREEMPT_RT enabled kernels unmarked hrtimers are moved into soft
interrupt expiry mode by default.

While that's not a functional requirement for the KVM local APIC timer
emulation, it's a latency issue which can be avoided by marking the timer
so hard interrupt context expiry is enforced.

No functional change.

[ tglx: Split out from larger combo patch. Add changelog. ]

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190726185753.363363474@linutronix.de
arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c