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| author | Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> | 2020-09-07 15:47:30 +0200 |
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| committer | Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> | 2020-10-20 10:22:16 +0200 |
| commit | e99502f76271d6bc4e374fe368c50c67a1fd3070 (patch) | |
| tree | aadec8f665acbf22be002d42269ea26a9f01bea6 /Documentation | |
| parent | 7beb290caa2adb0a399e735a1e175db9aae0523a (diff) | |
| download | linux-e99502f76271d6bc4e374fe368c50c67a1fd3070.tar.bz2 | |
xen/events: defer eoi in case of excessive number of events
In case rogue guests are sending events at high frequency it might
happen that xen_evtchn_do_upcall() won't stop processing events in
dom0. As this is done in irq handling a crash might be the result.
In order to avoid that, delay further inter-domain events after some
time in xen_evtchn_do_upcall() by forcing eoi processing into a
worker on the same cpu, thus inhibiting new events coming in.
The time after which eoi processing is to be delayed is configurable
via a new module parameter "event_loop_timeout" which specifies the
maximum event loop time in jiffies (default: 2, the value was chosen
after some tests showing that a value of 2 was the lowest with an
only slight drop of dom0 network throughput while multiple guests
performed an event storm).
How long eoi processing will be delayed can be specified via another
parameter "event_eoi_delay" (again in jiffies, default 10, again the
value was chosen after testing with different delay values).
This is part of XSA-332.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Julien Grall <julien@xen.org>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index a1068742a6df..89d977f0b786 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -5828,6 +5828,14 @@ improve timer resolution at the expense of processing more timer interrupts. + xen.event_eoi_delay= [XEN] + How long to delay EOI handling in case of event + storms (jiffies). Default is 10. + + xen.event_loop_timeout= [XEN] + After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop + should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2. + nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE] Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support |