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| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c index e42b85e4f1aa..428058dc5114 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c @@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ #include <linux/pgtable.h> #include <asm/debugfs.h> +#include <asm/kvm_guest.h> #include <asm/io.h> #include <asm/kdump.h> #include <asm/prom.h> @@ -939,16 +940,20 @@ u64 hw_nmi_get_sample_period(int watchdog_thresh) * disable it by default. Book3S has a soft-nmi hardlockup detector based * on the decrementer interrupt, so it does not suffer from this problem. * - * It is likely to get false positives in VM guests, so disable it there - * by default too. + * It is likely to get false positives in KVM guests, so disable it there + * by default too. PowerVM will not stop or arbitrarily oversubscribe + * CPUs, but give a minimum regular allotment even with SPLPAR, so enable + * the detector for non-KVM guests, assume PowerVM. */ static int __init disable_hardlockup_detector(void) { #ifdef CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF hardlockup_detector_disable(); #else - if (firmware_has_feature(FW_FEATURE_LPAR)) - hardlockup_detector_disable(); + if (firmware_has_feature(FW_FEATURE_LPAR)) { + if (is_kvm_guest()) + hardlockup_detector_disable(); + } #endif return 0; |