xen/events: Handle VIRQ_TIMER before any other hardirq in event loop.

Browse source

This avoids any other hardirq handler seeing a very stale jiffies
value immediately after wakeup from a long idle period. The one
observable symptom of this was a USB keyboard, with software keyboard
repeat, which would always repeat a key immediately that it was
pressed. This is due to the key press waking the guest, the key
handler immediately runs, sees an old jiffies value, and then that
jiffies value significantly updated, before the key is unpressed.

Reviewed-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

...

This commit is contained in:

Keir Fraser 2013-03-28 10:03:36 -04:00 • committed by Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk

parent c26377e62f

commit bee980d9e9

1 changed files with 15 additions and 4 deletions

Show all changes Ignore whitespace when comparing lines Ignore changes in amount of whitespace Ignore changes in whitespace at EOL

Download patch file Download diff file Expand all files Collapse all files

19

drivers/xen/events.c

View file