[PATCH] KVM: PPC: Exit guest upon fatal machine check exception

Thu Nov 12 13:24:19 AEDT 2015

Aravinda Prasad <aravinda at linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:

> This patch modifies KVM to cause a guest exit with
> KVM_EXIT_NMI instead of immediately delivering a 0x200
> interrupt to guest upon machine check exception in
> guest address. Exiting the guest enables QEMU to build
> error log and deliver machine check exception to guest
> OS (either via guest OS registered machine check
> handler or via 0x200 guest OS interrupt vector).
>
> This approach simplifies the delivering of machine
> check exception to guest OS compared to the earlier approach
> of KVM directly invoking 0x200 guest interrupt vector.
> In the earlier approach QEMU patched the 0x200 interrupt
> vector during boot. The patched code at 0x200 issued a
> private hcall to pass the control to QEMU to build the
> error log.
>
> This design/approach is based on the feedback for the
> QEMU patches to handle machine check exception. Details
> of earlier approach of handling machine check exception
> in QEMU and related discussions can be found at:
>
> https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-11/msg00813.html

I've poked at the MCE code, but not the KVM MCE code, so I may be
mistaken here, but I'm not clear on how this handles errors that the
guest can recover without terminating.

For example, a Linux guest can handle a UE in guest userspace by killing
the guest process. A hypthetical non-linux guest with a microkernel
could even survive UEs in drivers.

It sounds from your patch like you're changing this behaviour. Is this
right?

Regards,
Daniel

>
> Signed-off-by: Aravinda Prasad <aravinda at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c            |   12 +++---------
>  arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S |   31 +++++++++++--------------------
>  2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c
> index 2280497..1b1dff0 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c
> @@ -859,15 +859,9 @@ static int kvmppc_handle_exit_hv(struct kvm_run *run, struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
>  		r = RESUME_GUEST;
>  		break;
>  	case BOOK3S_INTERRUPT_MACHINE_CHECK:
> -		/*
> -		 * Deliver a machine check interrupt to the guest.
> -		 * We have to do this, even if the host has handled the
> -		 * machine check, because machine checks use SRR0/1 and
> -		 * the interrupt might have trashed guest state in them.
> -		 */
> -		kvmppc_book3s_queue_irqprio(vcpu,
> -					    BOOK3S_INTERRUPT_MACHINE_CHECK);
> -		r = RESUME_GUEST;
> +		/* Exit to guest with KVM_EXIT_NMI as exit reason */
> +		run->exit_reason = KVM_EXIT_NMI;
> +		r = RESUME_HOST;
>  		break;
>  	case BOOK3S_INTERRUPT_PROGRAM:
>  	{
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S
> index b98889e..672b4f6 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S
> @@ -147,7 +147,6 @@ END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_ARCH_207S)
>  	addi	r1, r1, 112
>  	ld	r7, HSTATE_HOST_MSR(r13)
>  
> -	cmpwi	cr1, r12, BOOK3S_INTERRUPT_MACHINE_CHECK
>  	cmpwi	r12, BOOK3S_INTERRUPT_EXTERNAL
>  	beq	11f
>  	cmpwi	cr2, r12, BOOK3S_INTERRUPT_HMI
> @@ -160,7 +159,6 @@ END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_ARCH_207S)
>  	mtmsrd	r6, 1			/* Clear RI in MSR */
>  	mtsrr0	r8
>  	mtsrr1	r7
> -	beq	cr1, 13f		/* machine check */
>  	RFI
>  
>  	/* On POWER7, we have external interrupts set to use HSRR0/1 */
> @@ -168,8 +166,6 @@ END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_ARCH_207S)
>  	mtspr	SPRN_HSRR1, r7
>  	ba	0x500
>  
> -13:	b	machine_check_fwnmi
> -
>  14:	mtspr	SPRN_HSRR0, r8
>  	mtspr	SPRN_HSRR1, r7
>  	b	hmi_exception_after_realmode
> @@ -2381,24 +2377,19 @@ machine_check_realmode:
>  	ld	r9, HSTATE_KVM_VCPU(r13)
>  	li	r12, BOOK3S_INTERRUPT_MACHINE_CHECK
>  	/*
> -	 * Deliver unhandled/fatal (e.g. UE) MCE errors to guest through
> -	 * machine check interrupt (set HSRR0 to 0x200). And for handled
> -	 * errors (no-fatal), just go back to guest execution with current
> -	 * HSRR0 instead of exiting guest. This new approach will inject
> -	 * machine check to guest for fatal error causing guest to crash.
> -	 *
> -	 * The old code used to return to host for unhandled errors which
> -	 * was causing guest to hang with soft lockups inside guest and
> -	 * makes it difficult to recover guest instance.
> +	 * Deliver unhandled/fatal (e.g. UE) MCE errors to guest
> +	 * by exiting the guest with KVM_EXIT_NMI exit reason (exit
> +	 * reason set later based on trap). For handled errors
> +	 * (no-fatal), go back to guest execution with current HSRR0
> +	 * instead of exiting the guest. This approach will cause
> +	 * the guest to exit in case of fatal machine check error.
>  	 */
> -	ld	r10, VCPU_PC(r9)
> +	bne	2f	/* Continue guest execution? */
> +	/* If not, exit the guest. SRR0/1 are already set */
> +	b	mc_cont
> +2:	ld	r10, VCPU_PC(r9)
>  	ld	r11, VCPU_MSR(r9)
> -	bne	2f	/* Continue guest execution. */
> -	/* If not, deliver a machine check.  SRR0/1 are already set */
> -	li	r10, BOOK3S_INTERRUPT_MACHINE_CHECK
> -	ld	r11, VCPU_MSR(r9)
> -	bl	kvmppc_msr_interrupt
> -2:	b	fast_interrupt_c_return
> +	b	fast_interrupt_c_return
>  
>  /*
>   * Check the reason we woke from nap, and take appropriate action.
>
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