[PATCH 19/30] KVM: PPC: e500mc: add load inst fixup

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Sat Feb 18 10:17:02 EST 2012


On 02/17/2012 11:13 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> There's always a chance we're unable to read a guest instruction. The guest
> could have its TLB mapped execute-, but not readable, something odd happens
> and our TLB gets flushed. So it's a good idea to be prepared for that case
> and have a fallback that allows us to fix things up in that case.
> 
> Add fixup code that keeps guest code from potentially crashing our host kernel.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf at suse.de>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/kvm/bookehv_interrupts.S |   30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  1 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/bookehv_interrupts.S b/arch/powerpc/kvm/bookehv_interrupts.S
> index 63023ae..e0f484c 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/bookehv_interrupts.S
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/bookehv_interrupts.S
> @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
>  #include <asm/asm-compat.h>
>  #include <asm/asm-offsets.h>
>  #include <asm/bitsperlong.h>
> +#include <asm/thread_info.h>
>  
>  #include "../kernel/head_booke.h" /* for THREAD_NORMSAVE() */
>  
> @@ -171,9 +172,36 @@
>  	PPC_STL	r30, VCPU_GPR(r30)(r4)
>  	PPC_STL	r31, VCPU_GPR(r31)(r4)
>  	mtspr	SPRN_EPLC, r8
> +
> +	/* disable preemption, so we are sure we hit the fixup handler */
> +#ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
> +	clrrdi	r8,r1,THREAD_SHIFT
> +#else
> +	rlwinm	r8,r1,0,0,31-THREAD_SHIFT       /* current thread_info */
> +#endif
> +        lwz     r6,TI_PREEMPT(r8)
> +	addi	r7,r6,1
> +        stw     r7,TI_PREEMPT(r8)

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The preempt count had better already be zero here, so we can just store
1 now, and 0 later, and avoid the stall on load results.

> +
>  	isync
> -	lwepx	r9, 0, r5
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * In case the read goes wrong, we catch it and write an invalid value
> +	 * in LAST_INST instead.
> +	 */
> +1:	lwepx	r9, 0, r5
> +2:
> +.section .fixup, "ax"
> +3:	li r9, KVM_INST_FETCH_FAILED
> +	b 2b

Please tab after the opcode

> +.previous
> +.section __ex_table,"a"
> +	PPC_LONG_ALIGN
> +	PPC_LONG 1b,3b
> +.previous
> +
>  	mtspr	SPRN_EPLC, r3
> +        stw     r6,TI_PREEMPT(r8)
>  	stw	r9, VCPU_LAST_INST(r4)

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-Scott



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