diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 6d9314ce33d5..6ccb93772cd1 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 4e62417bf317504c0b85e0d7abd236f334f54eaf
+refs/heads/master: 0552f73b9a81d39d50b71a5c06cf36efff80b6fd
diff --git a/trunk/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c b/trunk/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c
index af2d288c881d..8c458f262872 100644
--- a/trunk/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/trunk/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -2054,12 +2054,21 @@ static int __vcpu_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_run *kvm_run)
 
 	kvm_x86_ops->run(vcpu, kvm_run);
 
-	kvm_guest_exit();
 	vcpu->guest_mode = 0;
 	local_irq_enable();
 
 	++vcpu->stat.exits;
 
+	/*
+	 * We must have an instruction between local_irq_enable() and
+	 * kvm_guest_exit(), so the timer interrupt isn't delayed by
+	 * the interrupt shadow.  The stat.exits increment will do nicely.
+	 * But we need to prevent reordering, hence this barrier():
+	 */
+	barrier();
+
+	kvm_guest_exit();
+
 	preempt_enable();
 
 	/*