[PATCH 2/2] KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Disallow AIL != 0

Fabiano Rosas farosas at linux.ibm.com
Tue Jan 25 09:50:44 AEDT 2022


Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com> writes:

> KVM PR does not implement address translation modes on interrupt, so it
> must not allow H_SET_MODE to succeed.
>
> This is not compatible with QEMU behaviour. The solution might be to
> have a cap-ail for this, but now it's broken either way so fix it in
> KVM to start with.
>
> This allows PR Linux guests that are using the SCV facility to boot and
> run, because Linux disables the use of SCV if AIL can not be set to 3.
> This isn't a real fix because Linux or another OS could implement real
> mode SCV vectors and try to enable it. The right solution is for KVM to
> emulate scv interrupts from the facility unavailable interrupt.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Fabiano Rosas <farosas at linux.ibm.com>

>  arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_pr_papr.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_pr_papr.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_pr_papr.c
> index 1f10e7dfcdd0..dc4f51ac84bc 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_pr_papr.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_pr_papr.c
> @@ -281,6 +281,22 @@ static int kvmppc_h_pr_logical_ci_store(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  	return EMULATE_DONE;
>  }
>
> +static int kvmppc_h_pr_set_mode(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> +{
> +	unsigned long mflags = kvmppc_get_gpr(vcpu, 4);
> +	unsigned long resource = kvmppc_get_gpr(vcpu, 5);
> +
> +	if (resource == H_SET_MODE_RESOURCE_ADDR_TRANS_MODE) {
> +		/* KVM PR does not provide AIL!=0 to guests */
> +		if (mflags == 0)
> +			kvmppc_set_gpr(vcpu, 3, H_SUCCESS);
> +		else
> +			kvmppc_set_gpr(vcpu, 3, H_UNSUPPORTED_FLAG_START - 63);
> +		return EMULATE_DONE;
> +	}
> +	return EMULATE_FAIL;
> +}
> +
>  #ifdef CONFIG_SPAPR_TCE_IOMMU
>  static int kvmppc_h_pr_put_tce(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  {
> @@ -384,6 +400,8 @@ int kvmppc_h_pr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned long cmd)
>  		return kvmppc_h_pr_logical_ci_load(vcpu);
>  	case H_LOGICAL_CI_STORE:
>  		return kvmppc_h_pr_logical_ci_store(vcpu);
> +	case H_SET_MODE:
> +		return kvmppc_h_pr_set_mode(vcpu);
>  	case H_XIRR:
>  	case H_CPPR:
>  	case H_EOI:
> @@ -421,6 +439,7 @@ int kvmppc_hcall_impl_pr(unsigned long cmd)
>  	case H_CEDE:
>  	case H_LOGICAL_CI_LOAD:
>  	case H_LOGICAL_CI_STORE:
> +	case H_SET_MODE:
>  #ifdef CONFIG_KVM_XICS
>  	case H_XIRR:
>  	case H_CPPR:
> @@ -447,6 +466,7 @@ static unsigned int default_hcall_list[] = {
>  	H_BULK_REMOVE,
>  	H_PUT_TCE,
>  	H_CEDE,
> +	H_SET_MODE,
>  #ifdef CONFIG_KVM_XICS
>  	H_XIRR,
>  	H_CPPR,


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