KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix guest r11 corruption with POWER9 TM workarounds
sathnaga
sathnaga at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Sat Sep 15 03:04:39 AEST 2018
On 2018-09-14 22:26, sathnaga at linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote:
> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 15:33:47 +1000
> From: Michael Neuling <mikey at neuling.org>
> To: mpe at ellerman.id.au
> Cc: linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org, kvm-ppc at vger.kernel.org,
> paulus at ozlabs.org, sjitindarsingh at gmail.com, mikey at neuling.org
> Subject: KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix guest r11 corruption with POWER9 TM
> workarounds
>
> When we come into the softpatch handler (0x1500), we use r11 to store
> the HSRR0 for later use by the denorm handler.
>
> We also use the softpatch handler for the TM workarounds for
> POWER9. Unfortunately, in kvmppc_interrupt_hv we later store r11 out
> to the vcpu assuming it's still what we got from userspace.
>
> This causes r11 to be corrupted in the VCPU and hence when we restore
> the guest, we get a corrupted r11. We've seen this when running TM
> tests inside guests on P9.
>
> This fixes the problem by only touching r11 in the denorm case.
>
> Fixes: 4bb3c7a020 ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Work around transactional
> memory bugs in POWER9")
> Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org> # 4.17+
> Test-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh at gmail.com>
> Reviewed-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus at ozlabs.org>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey at neuling.org>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
Tested-by: Satheesh Rajendran <sathnaga at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Test details:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1792501
Regards,
-Satheesh.
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S
> b/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S
> index ea04dfb8c0..2d8fc8c9da 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S
> @@ -1314,9 +1314,7 @@ EXC_REAL_BEGIN(denorm_exception_hv, 0x1500,
> 0x100)
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_DENORMALISATION
> mfspr r10,SPRN_HSRR1
> - mfspr r11,SPRN_HSRR0 /* save HSRR0 */
> andis. r10,r10,(HSRR1_DENORM)@h /* denorm? */
> - addi r11,r11,-4 /* HSRR0 is next instruction */
> bne+ denorm_assist
> #endif
>
> @@ -1382,6 +1380,8 @@ END_FTR_SECTION_IFCLR(CPU_FTR_ARCH_207S)
> */
> XVCPSGNDP32(32)
> denorm_done:
> + mfspr r11,SPRN_HSRR0
> + subi r11,r11,4
> mtspr SPRN_HSRR0,r11
> mtcrf 0x80,r9
> ld r9,PACA_EXGEN+EX_R9(r13)
>
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