From: Florian Westphal Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 14:00:40 +0000 (+0200) Subject: KVM guest: disable stealtime on reboot to avoid mem corruption X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8fbe6a541f50eeec5e3e49bd92db23ade9496673;p=linux-beck.git KVM guest: disable stealtime on reboot to avoid mem corruption else, host continues to update stealtime after reboot, which can corrupt e.g. initramfs area. found when tracking down initramfs unpack error on initial reboot (with qemu-kvm -smp 2, no problem with single-core). Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti --- diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c index c1d61ee4b4f1..1596cc8fd793 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c @@ -354,6 +354,7 @@ static void kvm_pv_guest_cpu_reboot(void *unused) if (kvm_para_has_feature(KVM_FEATURE_PV_EOI)) wrmsrl(MSR_KVM_PV_EOI_EN, 0); kvm_pv_disable_apf(); + kvm_disable_steal_time(); } static int kvm_pv_reboot_notify(struct notifier_block *nb,