[RFC PATCH 4/5] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: handle need_tlb_flush in C before low-level guest entry

Nicholas Piggin npiggin at gmail.com
Sun Apr 15 15:28:07 AEST 2018


On Tue, 10 Apr 2018 22:48:41 +1000
Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Move this flushing out of assembly and have it use Linux TLB
> flush implementations introduced earlier. This allows powerpc:tlbie
> trace events to be used.

Ah, I kept wondering why my guests were locking up with stale PWC
after this patch... Turns out I made a significant oversight -- radix
wants to flush the LPID's process scoped translations here, to deal
with vCPU migration. My patch had it flushing the partition scoped.

Radix and HPT have quite different requirements here, and HPT has to
flush in real-mode. So I'll update the patch and leave the asm flush
in place for HPT only, and do the right thing here for radix.

We already have other gaps with tracing HPT flushes, so they will all
have to be dealt with some other way if we want that capability.

After this is fixed, the series has been stable here so far. I'll
re-send all the tlb stuff tomorrow if it holds up.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c            | 21 +++++++++++-
>  arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S | 43 +------------------------
>  2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c
> index 81e2ea882d97..5d4783b5b47a 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c
> @@ -2680,7 +2680,7 @@ static noinline void kvmppc_run_core(struct kvmppc_vcore *vc)
>  	int sub;
>  	bool thr0_done;
>  	unsigned long cmd_bit, stat_bit;
> -	int pcpu, thr;
> +	int pcpu, thr, tmp;
>  	int target_threads;
>  	int controlled_threads;
>  	int trap;
> @@ -2780,6 +2780,25 @@ static noinline void kvmppc_run_core(struct kvmppc_vcore *vc)
>  		return;
>  	}
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * Do we need to flush the TLB for the LPAR? (see TLB comment above)
> +         * On POWER9, individual threads can come in here, but the
> +         * TLB is shared between the 4 threads in a core, hence
> +         * invalidating on one thread invalidates for all.
> +         * Thus we make all 4 threads use the same bit here.
> +         */
> +	tmp = pcpu;
> +	if (cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_ARCH_300))
> +		tmp &= ~0x3UL;
> +	if (cpumask_test_cpu(tmp, &vc->kvm->arch.need_tlb_flush)) {
> +		if (kvm_is_radix(vc->kvm))
> +			radix__local_flush_tlb_lpid(vc->kvm->arch.lpid);
> +		else
> +			hash__local_flush_tlb_lpid(vc->kvm->arch.lpid);
> +		/* Clear the bit after the TLB flush */
> +		cpumask_clear_cpu(tmp, &vc->kvm->arch.need_tlb_flush);
> +	}
> +
>  	kvmppc_clear_host_core(pcpu);
>  
>  	/* Decide on micro-threading (split-core) mode */
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S
> index bd63fa8a08b5..6a23a0f3ceea 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S
> @@ -647,49 +647,8 @@ END_FTR_SECTION_IFCLR(CPU_FTR_ARCH_300)
>  	mtspr	SPRN_LPID,r7
>  	isync
>  
> -	/* See if we need to flush the TLB */
> -	lhz	r6,PACAPACAINDEX(r13)	/* test_bit(cpu, need_tlb_flush) */
> -BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
> -	/*
> -	 * On POWER9, individual threads can come in here, but the
> -	 * TLB is shared between the 4 threads in a core, hence
> -	 * invalidating on one thread invalidates for all.
> -	 * Thus we make all 4 threads use the same bit here.
> -	 */
> -	clrrdi	r6,r6,2
> -END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_ARCH_300)
> -	clrldi	r7,r6,64-6		/* extract bit number (6 bits) */
> -	srdi	r6,r6,6			/* doubleword number */
> -	sldi	r6,r6,3			/* address offset */
> -	add	r6,r6,r9
> -	addi	r6,r6,KVM_NEED_FLUSH	/* dword in kvm->arch.need_tlb_flush */
> -	li	r8,1
> -	sld	r8,r8,r7
> -	ld	r7,0(r6)
> -	and.	r7,r7,r8
> -	beq	22f
> -	/* Flush the TLB of any entries for this LPID */
> -	lwz	r0,KVM_TLB_SETS(r9)
> -	mtctr	r0
> -	li	r7,0x800		/* IS field = 0b10 */
> -	ptesync
> -	li	r0,0			/* RS for P9 version of tlbiel */
> -	bne	cr7, 29f
> -28:	tlbiel	r7			/* On P9, rs=0, RIC=0, PRS=0, R=0 */
> -	addi	r7,r7,0x1000
> -	bdnz	28b
> -	b	30f
> -29:	PPC_TLBIEL(7,0,2,1,1)		/* for radix, RIC=2, PRS=1, R=1 */
> -	addi	r7,r7,0x1000
> -	bdnz	29b
> -30:	ptesync
> -23:	ldarx	r7,0,r6			/* clear the bit after TLB flushed */
> -	andc	r7,r7,r8
> -	stdcx.	r7,0,r6
> -	bne	23b
> -
>  	/* Add timebase offset onto timebase */
> -22:	ld	r8,VCORE_TB_OFFSET(r5)
> +	ld	r8,VCORE_TB_OFFSET(r5)
>  	cmpdi	r8,0
>  	beq	37f
>  	mftb	r6		/* current host timebase */



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