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Description of problem: qemu-kvm cpu usage keeps 100% after DDOS attack by high frequency of pit timer Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): host: qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.394.el6.x86_64 kernel-2.6.32-413.el6.x86_64 guest: RHEL6U5-64 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1.boot guest with: /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm \ -M pc \ -cpu SandyBridge \ -m 2G \ -smp 2,sockets=1,cores=2,threads=1 \ -enable-kvm \ -name rhel6u5 \ -uuid 990ea161-6b67-47b2-b803-19fb01d30d12 \ -smbios type=1,manufacturer='Red Hat',product='RHEV Hypervisor',version=el6,serial=koTUXQrb,uuid=feebc8fd-f8b0-4e75-abc3-e63fcdb67170 \ -k en-us \ -rtc base=utc,clock=host,driftfix=slew \ -nodefaults \ -monitor stdio \ -qmp tcp:0:6666,server,nowait \ -boot menu=on \ -bios /usr/share/seabios/bios.bin \ -monitor unix:/tmp/monitor-unix,nowait,server \ -vga qxl \ -spice port=5900,disable-ticketing \ -global PIIX4_PM.disable_s3=0 \ -global PIIX4_PM.disable_s4=0 \ -drive file=/home/rhel6u5.qcow2,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=qcow2,cache=none,werror=stop,rerror=stop,aio=threads \ -device virtio-blk-pci,scsi=off,bus=pci.0,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0,bootindex=1 \ 2. execute the following python script in guest: import struct f = file("/dev/port","rw+") def outb(port, data): f.seek(port) f.write(struct.pack("B", data)) outb(0x43, 0x34) outb(0x40, 0x1) outb(0x40, 0x0) outb(0x43, 0x35) outb(0x41, 0x1) outb(0x41, 0x0) outb(0x43,0x36) outb(0x42, 0x1) outb(0x42, 0x0) 3. Actual results: qemu-kvm cpu usage keeps 100% Tasks: 224 total, 2 running, 222 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 6.6%us, 6.6%sy, 0.0%ni, 86.8%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 8000944k total, 808512k used, 7192432k free, 13008k buffers Swap: 58720240k total, 10468k used, 58709772k free, 88972k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 12498 root 20 0 2774m 477m 5904 S 100.5 6.1 33:59.79 qemu-kvm 12499 root 20 0 0 0 0 R 45.9 0.0 15:28.55 kvm-pit-wq 12685 root 20 0 15144 1424 1008 R 0.3 0.0 0:01.93 top 1 root 20 0 19360 1468 1200 S 0.0 0.0 0:02.16 init 2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 kthreadd Expected results: qemu-kvm cpu usage can resume normal. Additional info: host cpu info processor : 7 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 58 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz stepping : 9 cpu MHz : 1600.000 cache size : 8192 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 8 core id : 3 cpu cores : 4 apicid : 7 initial apicid : 7 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 13 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm ida arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid fsgsbase smep erms bogomips : 6784.49 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: