[PATCH] KVM: PPC: Book3E: Unlock mmu_lock when setting caching atttribute
Bharat.Bhushan at freescale.com
Bharat.Bhushan at freescale.com
Thu Jun 19 02:01:02 EST 2014
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mihai Caraman [mailto:mihai.caraman at freescale.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2014 9:15 PM
> To: kvm-ppc at vger.kernel.org
> Cc: kvm at vger.kernel.org; linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org; Caraman Mihai Claudiu-
> B02008; Bhushan Bharat-R65777
> Subject: [PATCH] KVM: PPC: Book3E: Unlock mmu_lock when setting caching
> atttribute
>
> The patch 08c9a188d0d0fc0f0c5e17d89a06bb59c493110f
> kvm: powerpc: use caching attributes as per linux pte
> do not handle properly the error case, letting mmu_lock locked. The lock
> will further generate a RCU stall from kvmppc_e500_emul_tlbwe() caller.
>
> In case of an error go to out label.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mihai Caraman <mihai.caraman at freescale.com>
> Cc: Bharat Bhushan <bharat.bhushan at freescale.com>
Thanks mike for fixing this; I am curious to know how you reached to this point :)
Reviewed-by: Bharat Bhushan <bharat.bhushan at freescale.com>
Regards
-Bharat
> ---
> arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_mmu_host.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_mmu_host.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_mmu_host.c
> index 0528fe5..54144c7 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_mmu_host.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_mmu_host.c
> @@ -473,7 +473,8 @@ static inline int kvmppc_e500_shadow_map(struct
> kvmppc_vcpu_e500 *vcpu_e500,
> if (printk_ratelimit())
> pr_err("%s: pte not present: gfn %lx, pfn %lx\n",
> __func__, (long)gfn, pfn);
> - return -EINVAL;
> + ret = -EINVAL;
> + goto out;
> }
> kvmppc_e500_ref_setup(ref, gtlbe, pfn, wimg);
>
> --
> 1.7.11.7
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