[PATCH v3 6/8] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Handle migration with POWER9 disabled DAWR

Michael Neuling mikey at neuling.org
Tue Mar 27 15:37:22 AEDT 2018


POWER9 with the DAWR disabled causes problems for partition
migration. Either we have to fail the migration (since we lose the
DAWR) or we silently drop the DAWR and allow the migration to pass.

This patch does the latter and allows the migration to pass (at the
cost of silently losing the DAWR). This is not ideal but hopefully the
best overall solution. This approach has been acked by Paulus.

With this patch kvmppc_set_one_reg() will store the DAWR in the vcpu
but won't actually set it on POWER9 hardware.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey at neuling.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S
index 13e23a5275..8ba20b11ba 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S
@@ -886,8 +886,14 @@ END_FTR_SECTION_IFCLR(CPU_FTR_ARCH_207S)
 	ld	r6, VCPU_DAWRX(r4)
 	ld	r7, VCPU_CIABR(r4)
 	ld	r8, VCPU_TAR(r4)
+	/*
+	 * Handle broken DAWR case by not writing it. This means we
+	 * can still store the DAWR register for migration.
+	 */
+BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
 	mtspr	SPRN_DAWR, r5
 	mtspr	SPRN_DAWRX, r6
+END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_DAWR)
 	mtspr	SPRN_CIABR, r7
 	mtspr	SPRN_TAR, r8
 	ld	r5, VCPU_IC(r4)
@@ -1834,6 +1840,10 @@ BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
 	ld	r6, STACK_SLOT_DAWR(r1)
 	ld	r7, STACK_SLOT_DAWRX(r1)
 	mtspr	SPRN_CIABR, r5
+	/*
+	 * If the DAWR doesn't work, it's ok to write these here as
+	 * this value should always be zero
+	*/
 	mtspr	SPRN_DAWR, r6
 	mtspr	SPRN_DAWRX, r7
 END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_ARCH_207S)
-- 
2.14.1



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