[PATCH kernel] KVM: PPC: Exit KVM on failed mapping

David Gibson david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Mon Mar 27 09:43:21 AEDT 2017


On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 05:48:10PM +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> At the moment kvmppc_mmu_map_page() returns -1 if
> mmu_hash_ops.hpte_insert() fails for any reason so the page fault handler
> resumes the guest and it faults on the same address again.
> 
> This adds distinction to kvmppc_mmu_map_page() to return -EIO if
> mmu_hash_ops.hpte_insert() failed for a reason other than full pteg.
> At the moment only pSeries_lpar_hpte_insert() returns -2 if
> plpar_pte_enter() failed with a code other than H_PTEG_FULL.
> Other mmu_hash_ops.hpte_insert() instances can only fail with
> -1 "full pteg".
> 
> With this change, if PR KVM fails to update HPT, it can signal
> the userspace about this instead of returning to guest and having
> the very same page fault over and over again.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik at ozlabs.ru>

Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david at gibson.dropbear.id.au>

> ---
> 
> This was found with nested KVM+VFIO when PR KVM was trying to map MMIO BAR
> of a VFIO PCI device but since it would not preserve WIMG bits, HV KVM
> would fail, mmu_hash_ops.hpte_insert() would return error and PR KVM
> would just continue and trap again on the same memory access.
> 
> With this patch but without "KVM: PPC: Preserve storage control bits"
> nested QEMU will abort with informative screen instead of endlessly
> trying to proceed further in booting.
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_host.c | 5 ++++-
>  arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_pr.c          | 6 +++++-
>  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_host.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_host.c
> index a587e8f4fd26..4b4e927c4822 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_host.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_host.c
> @@ -177,12 +177,15 @@ int kvmppc_mmu_map_page(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvmppc_pte *orig_pte,
>  	ret = mmu_hash_ops.hpte_insert(hpteg, vpn, hpaddr, rflags, vflags,
>  				       hpsize, hpsize, MMU_SEGSIZE_256M);
>  
> -	if (ret < 0) {
> +	if (ret == -1) {
>  		/* If we couldn't map a primary PTE, try a secondary */
>  		hash = ~hash;
>  		vflags ^= HPTE_V_SECONDARY;
>  		attempt++;
>  		goto map_again;
> +	} else if (ret < 0) {
> +		r = -EIO;
> +		goto out_unlock;
>  	} else {
>  		trace_kvm_book3s_64_mmu_map(rflags, hpteg,
>  					    vpn, hpaddr, orig_pte);
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_pr.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_pr.c
> index 633502f52bbb..ce437b98477e 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_pr.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_pr.c
> @@ -625,7 +625,11 @@ int kvmppc_handle_pagefault(struct kvm_run *run, struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
>  			kvmppc_mmu_unmap_page(vcpu, &pte);
>  		}
>  		/* The guest's PTE is not mapped yet. Map on the host */
> -		kvmppc_mmu_map_page(vcpu, &pte, iswrite);
> +		if (kvmppc_mmu_map_page(vcpu, &pte, iswrite) == -EIO) {
> +			/* Exit KVM if mapping failed */
> +			run->exit_reason = KVM_EXIT_INTERNAL_ERROR;
> +			return RESUME_HOST;
> +		}
>  		if (data)
>  			vcpu->stat.sp_storage++;
>  		else if (vcpu->arch.mmu.is_dcbz32(vcpu) &&

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