[PATCH] KVM: PPC: Book3S: fix XIVE migration of pending interrupts
Greg Kurz
groug at kaod.org
Fri Dec 22 23:18:59 AEDT 2017
On Fri, 22 Dec 2017 12:58:47 +0100
Greg Kurz <groug at kaod.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Dec 2017 22:22:08 +1100
> Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au> wrote:
>
> > Paul Mackerras <paulus at ozlabs.org> writes:
[...]
> > >
> > > Thanks for doing that.
> > >
> > > If you felt like merging Alexey's patch "KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Fix WIMG
> > > handling under pHyp" with my acked-by, that would be fine too. The
> > > commit message needs a little work - the reason for using HPTE_R_M is
> > > not just because it seems to work, but because current POWER
> > > processors require M set on mappings for normal pages, and pHyp
> > > enforces that.
> >
> > OK. I saw this too late, but I'll pick that one up next week. If someone
> > sends me an updated change log I will merge all of their patches for
> > ever.
> >
>
> Really ? Opportunity makes the thief, so here's my take :P
>
> 8<---------------------------------------------------------------------->8
> KVM: PPC: Book3S: fix XIVE migration of pending interrupts
Oops! Paste error... Title should be:
KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Fix WIMG handling under pHyp
>
> 96df226 "KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Preserve storage control bits" added WIMG
> bits preserving but it missed 2 special cases:
> - a magic page in kvmppc_mmu_book3s_64_xlate() and
> - guest real mode in kvmppc_handle_pagefault().
>
> For these ptes WIMG were 0 and pHyp failed on these causing a guest to
> stop in the very beginning at NIP=0x100 (due to bd9166ffe
> "KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Exit KVM on failed mapping").
>
> According to LoPAPR v1.1 14.5.4.1.2 H_ENTER:
>
> The hypervisor checks that the WIMG bits within the PTE are appropriate
> for the physical page number else H_Parameter return. (For System Memory
> pages WIMG=0010, or, 1110 if the SAO option is enabled, and for IO pages
> WIMG=01**.)
>
> This hence initializes WIMG to non-zero value HPTE_R_M (0x10), as expected
> by pHyp.
>
> Fixes: 96df226 "KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Preserve storage control bits"
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik at ozlabs.ru>
> 8<---------------------------------------------------------------------->8
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Greg
>
> > cheers
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