[PATCH] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Check for updated HDSISR on P9 HDSI exception

Michael Neuling mikey at neuling.org
Fri Sep 15 15:26:14 AEST 2017


On POWER9 DD2.1 and below, sometimes on a Hypervisor Data Storage
Interrupt (HDSI) the HDSISR is not be updated at all.

To work around this we put a canary value into the HDSISR before
returning to a guest and then check for this canary when we take a
HDSI. If we find the canary on a HDSI, we know the hardware didn't
update the HDSISR. In this case we return to the guest to retake the
HDSI which should correctly update the HDSISR the second time HDSI
entry.

After talking to Paulus we've applied this workaround to all POWER9
CPUs. The workaround of returning to the guest shouldn't ever be
triggered on well behaving CPU. The extra instructions should have
negligible performance impact.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey at neuling.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S | 14 +++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S
index 663a4a861e..70dca60569 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S
@@ -1118,6 +1118,13 @@ END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_HAS_PPR)
 BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
 	mtspr	SPRN_PPR, r0
 END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_HAS_PPR)
+
+/* Move canary into DSISR to check for later */
+BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
+	li	r0, 0x7fff
+	mtspr	SPRN_HDSISR, r0
+END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_ARCH_300)
+
 	ld	r0, VCPU_GPR(R0)(r4)
 	ld	r4, VCPU_GPR(R4)(r4)
 
@@ -1947,9 +1954,14 @@ END_MMU_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(MMU_FTR_TYPE_RADIX)
 kvmppc_hdsi:
 	ld	r3, VCPU_KVM(r9)
 	lbz	r0, KVM_RADIX(r3)
-	cmpwi	r0, 0
 	mfspr	r4, SPRN_HDAR
 	mfspr	r6, SPRN_HDSISR
+BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
+	/* Look for DSISR canary. If we find it, retry instruction */
+	cmpdi	r6, 0x7fff
+	beq	6f
+END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_ARCH_300)
+	cmpwi	r0, 0
 	bne	.Lradix_hdsi		/* on radix, just save DAR/DSISR/ASDR */
 	/* HPTE not found fault or protection fault? */
 	andis.	r0, r6, (DSISR_NOHPTE | DSISR_PROTFAULT)@h
-- 
2.11.0



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