[PATCH v2 2/4] kvm/ppc/booke64: Fix lazy ee handling in kvmppc_handle_exit()
Bhushan Bharat-R65777
R65777 at freescale.com
Fri May 10 15:01:19 EST 2013
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kvm-ppc-owner at vger.kernel.org [mailto:kvm-ppc-owner at vger.kernel.org] On
> Behalf Of Scott Wood
> Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 8:40 AM
> To: Alexander Graf; Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> Cc: kvm-ppc at vger.kernel.org; kvm at vger.kernel.org; linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org;
> Wood Scott-B07421
> Subject: [PATCH v2 2/4] kvm/ppc/booke64: Fix lazy ee handling in
> kvmppc_handle_exit()
>
> EE is hard-disabled on entry to kvmppc_handle_exit(), so call
> hard_irq_disable() so that PACA_IRQ_HARD_DIS is set, and soft_enabled
> is unset.
>
> Without this, we get warnings such as arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c:300,
> and sometimes host kernel hangs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/kvm/booke.c | 5 +++++
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/booke.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/booke.c
> index 1020119..705fc5c 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/booke.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/booke.c
> @@ -833,6 +833,11 @@ int kvmppc_handle_exit(struct kvm_run *run, struct kvm_vcpu
> *vcpu,
> int r = RESUME_HOST;
> int s;
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
> + WARN_ON(local_paca->irq_happened != 0);
> +#endif
> + hard_irq_disable();
It is not actually to hard disable as EE is already clear but to make it looks like hard_disable to host. Right?
If so, should we write a comment here on why we are doing this?
-Bharat
> +
> /* update before a new last_exit_type is rewritten */
> kvmppc_update_timing_stats(vcpu);
>
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> 1.7.10.4
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