[PATCH V2] powerpc: Fix oops due to wrong access of lppaca on non virtualized platform

Nicholas Piggin npiggin at gmail.com
Mon Apr 2 17:41:03 AEST 2018


On Mon,  2 Apr 2018 13:03:37 +0530
"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar at linux.ibm.com> wrote:

> Commit 8e0b634b1327 ("powerpc/64s: Do not allocate lppaca if we are not
> virtualized") removed allocation of lppaca on non virtualized platform. But with
> CONFIG_PPC_SPLPAR enabled, we do access lppaca non-virtualized platform in some
> code paths.
> 
> Fix this but adding runtime check for virtualized platform.
> 
> Fixes: 8e0b634b1327 ("powerpc/64s: Do not allocate lppaca if we are not virtualized")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.ibm.com>

Thanks, this looks good to me...

> ---
> Changes from V1:
> * update commit summary
> 
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/lppaca.h   | 3 +++
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/spinlock.h | 2 ++
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c          | 3 +++
>  3 files changed, 8 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/lppaca.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/lppaca.h
> index 65d589689f01..7c23ce8a5a4c 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/lppaca.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/lppaca.h
> @@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
>  #include <linux/threads.h>
>  #include <asm/types.h>
>  #include <asm/mmu.h>
> +#include <asm/firmware.h>
>  
>  /*
>   * The lppaca is the "virtual processor area" registered with the hypervisor,
> @@ -114,6 +115,8 @@ struct lppaca {
>  
>  static inline bool lppaca_shared_proc(struct lppaca *l)
>  {
> +	if (!firmware_has_feature(FW_FEATURE_SPLPAR))
> +		return false;
>  	return !!(l->__old_status & LPPACA_OLD_SHARED_PROC);
>  }
>  

We should eventually clean this up. There's no need to pass in an lppaca
here AFAIKS. Is it even per-CPU, does it change dynamically? We could set
it up in a FW_FEATURE parameter at boot, which would could make some of
these tests cheaper.

> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/spinlock.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/spinlock.h
> index b9ebc3085fb7..72dc4ddc2972 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/spinlock.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/spinlock.h
> @@ -56,6 +56,8 @@
>  #define vcpu_is_preempted vcpu_is_preempted
>  static inline bool vcpu_is_preempted(int cpu)
>  {
> +	if (!firmware_has_feature(FW_FEATURE_SPLPAR))
> +		return false;
>  	return !!(be32_to_cpu(lppaca_of(cpu).yield_count) & 1);
>  }
>  #endif
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c
> index f7d96a68ecaa..360e71d455cc 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c
> @@ -266,6 +266,9 @@ void accumulate_stolen_time(void)
>  
>  static inline u64 calculate_stolen_time(u64 stop_tb)
>  {
> +	if (!firmware_has_feature(FW_FEATURE_SPLPAR))
> +		return 0;
> +
>  	if (get_paca()->dtl_ridx != be64_to_cpu(get_lppaca()->dtl_idx))
>  		return scan_dispatch_log(stop_tb);
>  



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